Re: C&C3 version 1.09 doesn't like me. Please Help!

I've seen that page before, one of the many that I've seen. Origin has a command line thing of sorts, not the same as the target location, but it says you can add them by going into your origin Game library and right clicking on the game, and hitting game properties.... however being as TW and Kanes wrath are grouped together it may be affecting it's ability to be a fix, I have not tried the Bibber's Fixed Game Launcher though, as I don't want to do anything to * off the allmighty Origin and have them make my game not work anymore, however if they are okay with people getting in there and Tinkering I'd be open to trying that. I tried the -runver 1.07, but I didn't think to take the space out in between maybe that may have some luck?

Okay so the Bibber fix didn't fix, so I guess origin has thought their way around that, it just gives an error message and says it has to close, do you want to check online for solution... then just ends. So any other ideas?? I tried entering -runver1.07 and it was just like... no

Can you check in the files of the game on your disk whether you find multiple folders for different versions, each with a rather large .dat file inside? I believe that's the true executable.

If you only find a folder for v1.09, then yeah, I guess the Origin version is severely crippled in that aspect :-\

I thought I had one that was like 6gigs but it dissapeared.... so they must have some pretty severe protection to keep the user from messing with anything.

Nonsense. In the Origin client, go to Origin -> Application Settings. In the settings, click "Advanced" You will see a line saying "Your games will be installed to the following location:"

Select the path in the box under that and copy it, and paste it in the address bar of your file explorer (winkey+E), and press enter, and you should see the folders of your installed games under it.

Right. I installed it.

Looks like the game exes are in

Origin Games\Command and Conquer 3 TW and KW\Command Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars\RetailExe\

AND it seems that the Origin version is indeed lacking all versions except 1.0 and 1.09.

So my advice is, play on 1.0 instead?

I've tried from 1.0, 1.01, 1.02.... etc. yes my folder does have 1.0 and 1.09, and none in between, but when I tried any including 1.0.... it gave the message version not recognized please be sure to patch to newest version(possibly paraphrasing at this point)

at any rate, I'm a little burnt by it. I've been trying to find a working walkthrough for it. None are up to date

As far as the -runver, I've tried it in the origin box and in the desktop shortcut icon, going to try it in the one in the folder.

okay the one in the folder as I said Origin is trying to keep anyone out, I had entered it in and it changed and then it created a new folder one with -runver 1.0 at the end and another that was named as the original was, but that only had the launcher icon in it. and now it won't launch at all. it comes up and delivers an error message. So I tried to go in and run a repair, and that seemed frozen so now I'm having it do a update. This is aggravating to no end

I have a cnc3game DAT file in there but I don't think it's an executable?

That is the game executable, yes. But it is normally ran through a launcher, since you can't launch executables directly unless their extension is .exe; renaming them to .dat is a classic way games use to force users to use the launcher instead, which often gives extra configuration or options to the game. (It's not new. The original 1995 DOS C&C1 has "game.dat" as executable, ran by a tiny "C&C.exe" launcher program)

For example, in C&C3's case, the game's launcher can select a version from the different cnc3game.dat files in the version folders.

But yeah, it's very possible that feature was broken by Origin, then :-\

I'll look further into this, and see if maybe it can be repaired by adding the older version folders manually or something. But if these .dat files themselves were adapted to Origin, that chance is rather low.

I appreciate the help, also is there a way to add patches such as the 1.07 and such?

or would the 1.09 + origin, likely stand in the way like a big brainless bouncer?

I honestly have no idea. I'll see if I can find a moment to install the original DVD game and patch it the normal way, and see if I it works to run one of the earlier versions on Origin after copying over the folders. If so, I might be able to cook up a pack that can help you.

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Oh, it's still on my old hard disk from before I got my new PC. Ideal. I'll get to experimenting.

do note the problem is not specifically Origin's own copy protection, but the original game's own protection that makes it check for the DVD. Though since the original game's DVD check was rather redundant since the whole game ran from hard disk anyway, it's possible all of those exes have been replaced by no-DVD versions anyway... which would also solve the Origin problem 😕mileytongue:

(the no-dvd versions were in fact several megabytes smaller than the originals, because of all the extra junk in there to encrypt them without the valid DVD)

Since I'll just be distributing the exes without any other game data, to fix a legitimate problem in the Origin version, I don't think the 'distributing cracked versions' thing is much of a problem here, by the way.

Hi Nyerguds, I have 2 Windows XP computers. One has the Internet on it and the other does not, and the computer that's not on the internet, (ALL) of my games work, Original Copies, Mods,  Dune 2000, and even the older games on Dosbox. So my problem is: I installed Tiberian Wars on the newer computer and it installed ok and it plays for about five minutes and then crashes then I get a candcgame3.dat error message. This is an original copy, playing it from the disk. I'm not running this on Origin or Steam. I don't play online at all . I haven't had a need to.....in the 20+ years I've played cmd and cqr. What do you recommend that I try to get this game going on the new computer. My main Objective is to mod the game with a mod that has a playable mutant faction. That's part of the reason why I have 2 XP computers. I don't want the mod altering the original game on the other computer.....Am I making sense? and Ive tried the 1.09 patch It doesn't work

i am using cnc3 and it will not let me go online i do not know how to downlond cnc3 1.6

pls HELP