C&C 3 and Red Alert 3 won't launch.
(This is an issue my friend is having, not me. Still, I can get any information you guys need from him.) I got the Command & Conquer Ultimate Collection for both me and my friend for Christmas. We w...
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Listen, if there's anyone who has solved this issue or who would try offering alternative ideas, please get in touch. As I said in my original post, the solutions we've tried have gone pretty deep and exhaustive, but it's still possible that someone else has an idea.
I also know other people are having this issue and have either completely given up and moved on or just keep scouring the internet fruitlessly. Maybe there's something we can figure out together since EA support seems completely uninvolved; they've got their money, whether the games actually run is beyond their interest.
EA_David
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Community AdminIf you haven't done so already, try reducing your resolution to minimum on your desktop and try to launch again. If there's space, please try installing one of the games to C drive and check again. Go to Origin>application settings>Advanced and set a C drive install spot. Be sure to change it back to your E drive after so Origin doesn't keep trying to install later games to C drive.
Surprisingly, this worked for me. I tried all the other tricks with firwall, launch parameters etc. And only setting my desktop resolution to minimum, and then launching the game did the trick. I finally got splash screen, where I clicked Red Alert 3 and the game launched after a while.
I feel your pain. Many solutions presented here actually did not work for me as well. It's kinda random and sometimes it just starts working after Origin update. So you can try to uninstall the game and install it again when Origin update. If you have two drives, you can try installing it on the other one, see if that helps. There is also a recommendation to add the exe files and the launcher to the Windows firewall, try that too. Try also suggestions here (espescially the last page):
https://answers.ea.com/t5/C-C-The-Ultimate-Collection/Red-Alert-3-Will-not-launch/td-p/992422/page/2
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