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Re: HELP!: RA2 & YR won't launch on Windows 10, fix?

@d4mp_punk

Huh. So it just doesn't seem to respond at all, then? Very peculiar.

There's an alternative to the official launchers, created by Bibber. Maybe those will help?

For the rest... 

Command & Conquer 1, Red Alert 1 and Tiberian Sun have all been upgraded with community-created unofficial patches that fix a lot of their bugs and compatibility problems. For Red Alert 2 there's a more general patch that solves a lot of its graphics problems. You can find them here:

Command & Conquer 1:

Red Alert 1:

Tiberian Sun:

Red Alert 2:

  • The graphics system patch DDWrapper is known to solve several graphics issues in the game. You could try if it helps you out.
    Download the zip file and extract "ddraw.dll" and "aqrit.cfg" into your game folder. Then, open the configuration file "aqrit.cfg" in Notepad, change the "ForceDirectDrawEmulation" option to 1, save the file, and try again

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    @Nyerguds

    The launchers by Bibber seem to have solved the issue, thank you! I have tested both RA2 and YR and they are running perfectly. The games are running windowed, so now to figure out how to launch them in fullscreen...

  • Thank you so much, ive been trying to get my ra2/yr to run for months now and ran by your fix, all i had to do was download the ddwrapper and it works without any issues

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