Some computer games are very addictive,time flies and you keep on playing.Command and Conquers:Generals and it’s expansion pack Zero Hour is one of them for me.
Recently,I tried to play one more older games of the Command and Conquer Red Alert series : Yuri’s Revenge.Running it on Vista from the Command and Conquer first decade launch screen showed me the following error:
“Fatal: string manager failed to initialize”
This probably meant that the program somehow got stuck while getting initialized,maybe due to lack of admin privileges or lack of backward compatibility by default with Windows XP.
To fix this,select and right click on Command and Conquer first decade icon on desktop and go to properties.
Simply enable the “Run as administrator” option and also the Program compatibility mode as Windows XP with service pack 2 to make all the Command and Conquer series running on Vista.
Just thought I would share this so as not to deprive many of the Command and conquer fans out there who can’t seem to load it on Windows Vista.
Happy Commanding and Conquering.
Peace.