@Salamander Oh, oof. Yea, I misread that.
Yea, TUC is basically just the newer games combined with the old First Decade pack, without any real updates since TFD was released 15 years ago. The main issue here though is mostly that these games are ancient, and EA probably doesn't even have the full source code for a lot of them, meaning it would cost them a lot more money to try to maintain them than would ever be worth it to them. And meanwhile, the C&C community has already done loads of work digging into these old games for modding and patching purposes.
So it's a bit of a tradeoff... EA turns a blind eye to all those C&C community projects that undoubtedly play it pretty loosely with the EA EULAs by digging into the games' internals, but in return, they, and not EA, are kind of the ones keeping the games functional.
It's not ideal... but it works.
I had already installed the gfx patch and saw an improvement, but last night I installed the dwrapper patch also and it seemed smoother still. Not sure if it was a placebo effect or not but after doing both, things are running smoother now.
RA2 GFX patch
ddwrapper RA2 patch
