C&C original and Red Alert not running on Windows 10

@dfreebz

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:

• Nyerguds' C&C95 v1.06c revision 3 patch (which also adds bonus missions originally exclusive to the Playstation and Nintendo 64 versions of the game)
  Note that this patch fixes two quite common and completely fatal game crashes (top-of-map reconnaissance crash, stealth crash), so installing it is strongly advised.

Red Alert 1:

• Funkyfr3sh's automatic Red Alert 1 patcher/installer (The thread also has briefing videos for the expansion missions, converted from the Playstation version of the game)
• Nyerguds' main.mix cleanup for TFD/TUC (Not really needed, but cleans up about a gigabyte of unnecessary files in the RA1 folder. Unpack in the game folder, run "patch_main.bat", let it finish, and then delete the files you extracted.)

Tiberian Sun:

• Funkyfr3sh's Tiberian Sun patch

Red Alert 2:

• The graphics system patch DDWrapper is known to solve a multitude of graphics problems, including the "black screen" issue.
  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 running the game again.
• If you still have problems with RA2 even after this, I advise installing the CnCNet installer for RA2/YR. It comes with a bunch of automatic fixes, and has a configuration tool which offers more choices in graphics fixes than just DDWrapper, so if one doesn't work you can just try if some of the other options do the trick.

@Nyerguds

Thanks mate. I will give them all a go. Fingers crossed I will be getting my game on soon.

Regards,

I think that they moved the page you were pointing to, it is now pointing to another page from installing the C&CRA2 online installer

@cowtechtutor

Not sure what page you mean. The RA2 online play installer page still works fine. You do need to scroll down a little to find the "Download & Play Online" button.

And yes, that is indeed an installer for a tool to play RA2 online. But as I said, it contains a lot of automated fixes that can help you get the game running, so even if you're not interested in online play, simply installing it can still help a lot.

@Nyerguds Thanks so much for you assistance....

I resorted to the CNCNET link, and so far so good with game play online and off.

Regards

@dfreebz

That was just for RA2 though... the single player C&C1, RA1 and TS offered at the cncnet site are exactly the same as the patch links I gave.