C&C GENERALS ZERO HOUR SAVE ERROR

[PrimaDawn]

Hello! I was wondering if anyone had fixes for this problem

I recently bought the Command and Conquer complete pack from Steam. I loved the other games in the bundle but Zero Hour is my favorite. However, with the recent release I've been having trouble with the save system. Whenever I tried to save a game, whether it be Skirmish, Campaign, or Challenge, a small message saying "Error" would appear in the top left corner. Now I have tried several "solutions" from different sources, specifically GenPatcher, GenLauncher, and GenTool, but none seem to have worked. I'm not really tech savvy about game files, but I'm really confused right now. I could really use some help.

[Dr.]

only thing i could think of..make sure the c&c generals zero hour folder in documents has Full control permissions for the windows user you are using

[alex.postolov]

I have the same problem. Very sad!
I believe its because of the Documents sync
Wait to play,
Please help.

[demhate]

Same here.

Windows 11.
No any related message in Event Manager.

Changing permissions on either:
C:\Users\user\Documents\Command and Conquer Generals Data
C:\Users\user\OneDrive\Documents\Command and Conquer Generals Data
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Command and Conquer Generals
won't work...

Reproduces in both Generals and Generals ZH.
Need help.

[demhate]

Finally I've resolved the issue.

It relates to using OneDrive somehow.

The game uses two different paths working with save folder:
1. c:\users\$CURRENT_USER\Documents
2. $DOCUMENTS

In my case both paths were different.

What helped:
Login as Administrator to Windows, run the game.

[last light of the library]

ye one drive is brilliant for screwing this game over. if it overrides whats in your documents folder with a backup it bricks the game.

[Levianne]

I never save in this game. Bad experience. Some mods can screw your saves badly, render them corrupted and even the vanilla game acts very strange upon loading a save created in vanilla. Whenever I loaded a save, the game immediately sets for the highest speed, even when I started with the slowest, making it quite unplayable (the AI cheats already, giving them such advantage over you is almost a crime). Is it a bug? Possibly. Was it ever solved? I wouldn't say so. So I play in one go, skirmish, campaign, or challenge, doesn't matter, I never save. If I'm unable to finish it for some reason, just end it and start over the other day, rather than loading an unplayable session.

[Dr.]

Originally posted by Levianne:

I never save in this game. Bad experience. Some mods can screw your saves badly, render them corrupted and even the vanilla game acts very strange upon loading a save created in vanilla. Whenever I loaded a save, the game immediately sets for the highest speed, even when I started with the slowest, making it quite unplayable (the AI cheats already, giving them such advantage over you is almost a crime). Is it a bug? Possibly. Was it ever solved? I wouldn't say so. So I play in one go, skirmish, campaign, or challenge, doesn't matter, I never save. If I'm unable to finish it for some reason, just end it and start over the other day, rather than loading an unplayable session.

thats weird, i never had such issues. sure it isnt related to mods? as vanilla i can load/save fine without the things you describe.

[last light of the library]

for the save error, there is a limit as to how many saves can be in the folder, not entirely sure on the exact number but at some point it ends up throwing errors when you try to save if you have too many.
The replays have the same issue.
1. make sure you dont have an excessive amount of save files in there.
2. make sure the save folder is not set to read only (sometimes can stop it from saving if it is)
3. some mods have the save function disabled.
4. some mods it just randomly decides to hate and wont save.
5. get one drive to completely ignore the games folder as it causes issues with it, (or just disable that rubbish, i always turn off one drive on a fresh reinstall and never let it turn back on it's way more trouble than its worth)

[Levianne]

Originally posted by Dr.:

Originally posted by Levianne:

I never save in this game. Bad experience. Some mods can screw your saves badly, render them corrupted and even the vanilla game acts very strange upon loading a save created in vanilla. Whenever I loaded a save, the game immediately sets for the highest speed, even when I started with the slowest, making it quite unplayable (the AI cheats already, giving them such advantage over you is almost a crime). Is it a bug? Possibly. Was it ever solved? I wouldn't say so. So I play in one go, skirmish, campaign, or challenge, doesn't matter, I never save. If I'm unable to finish it for some reason, just end it and start over the other day, rather than loading an unplayable session.

thats weird, i never had such issues. sure it isnt related to mods? as vanilla i can load/save fine without the things you describe.

I've had this even in vanilla, so not mod related. Whenever I've loaded up a save, it went right to the highest speed. Might be poor optimalisation, or poorly tailored settings (on my part), that's possible, but it's still a bug in the game engine (when the game allows for that behavior) regardless of mods involvement. Some mods had different issues, like not being able to load at all a save created in that mod a day earlier.
But I'm sorry to hijack and derail TC's topic, I'm not here anymore. :)