It's a fairly simple fix, I'm not sure why people are spamming links to external sites or suggesting you delete random files...

Navigate to:

C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Command and Conquer Generals Data

Ensure your USERNAME is the name of your machine

If for some reason you set up your machine to use OneDrive documents rather than local documents, then you need to replace Documents with OneDrive

If you already have an options.ini file, you can skip to the end otherwise:

For some users, myself included, there is no options.ini by default when installing the game, so we need to create one.

If you open up powershell and paste in the following (again update USERNAME to your machine's name):

cd "C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Command and Conquer Generals Data"

This will take you to the folder of the game. Now paste:

New-Item -ItemType File -Name options.ini

This will create the empty options.ini file for us. Now paste in the following (you'll need to manually change Resolution to the resolution of your monitor)


AntiAliasing = 4
BuildingOcclusion = yes
CampaignDifficulty = 1
DynamicLOD = yes
ExtraAnimations = no
GameSpyIPAddress = 0.0.0.0
Gamma = 50
HeatEffects = no
IPAddress = 0.0.0.0
IdealStaticGameLOD = High
LanguageFilter = false
MaxParticleCount = 1000
MusicVolume = 55
Resolution = 1920 1080
Retaliation = yes
SFX3DVolume = 79
SFXVolume = 71
ScrollFactor = 58
SendDelay = no
ShowSoftWaterEdge = no
ShowTrees = no
StaticGameLOD = High
TextureReduction = 2
UseAlternateMouse = yes
UseCloudMap = no
UseDoubleClickAttackMove = no
UseLightMap = no
UseShadowDecals = no
UseShadowVolumes = no
VoiceVolume = 70

This should get you up and running, have fun! And EA... why do you make things so hard?