C&C Ultimate Collection - will it run on win 10?
Hello, everybody!
I'm new to this site and I'm writing this post only to ask one question which is really important for me. I'm considering buying Command and Conquer Ultimate Collection. I was wondering if older games will run on Windows 10? I'm mostly worried about games like original, first C&C, Red Alert and Tiberian Sun. I'm a big fan of the series unfortunately I was born too late to play the older, classic games in the time of their "glory". I started my journey with C&C 3 Tiberium Wars and always wanted to play the older games. I didn't like C&C 4 though, it lacked sth. I heared many people praising the older games when Westwood was in charge. I know many opinions are based on nostalgia but nevertheless I still want to play them. For me gameplay and atmosphere of the game are very important not the graphics. As far as I know Collection is optimized for Win 7 and I saw some people complaining about problems with running some titles on newer software. I hope someone can ensure me that they'll work otherwise I don't want to waste my money (especially that I own all titles after C&C 3).
Just in case here're my specs:
Processor: AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor 3.5 GHz
Installed memory (RAM): 12GB
System type: Win 10 x64
Graphics card: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
With kind regards
Master After
You are worrying about exactly the wrong games, and, in fact, for multiple reasons:
- Command & Conquer 1, Red Alert 1 and Tiberian Sun are all freeware. You should never need to buy The Ultimate Collection to play just these games; you can just download them for free.
- There is a very active fan community around these games dedicated to patching them and making them playable online (namely, CnCNet). Out of all the games in the Ultimate Collection pack, those are the ones you have to worry about the least; the unofficial patches available for them fix pretty much all known issues for these games.
More information, plus downloads, can be found in this thread.
The same fixes are of course available as patches, too. Those patches, plus a common fix for Red Alert 2's graphics issues, can be found in this thread.
These games sometimes have trouble starting, or show weird colours or stretch to odd dimensions, if Display Scaling is enabled in Windows. This can be disabled on the PC globally, but I believe an option to disable it also exists in the compatibility options of the game executable files.
Now, besides that... if you have any problems, you can follow the general steps described in the sticky threads in this forum, making sure games run in administrator mode and the right compatibility modes, and create any settings folders and files that might be missing, then yes, they should generally work fine.
The only known actually unresolved issue I know of is some mysterious driver-related error of C&C3 on Intel HD video cards, but unless you actually have that hardware, it's nothing to worry about either.
