C&C Ultimate Collection 3 games don't work
I've just bought Command and Conquer the Ultimate pack and 3 games don't work. The others work fine.
Red alert 3 and C&C 3 (Uprising and Kane's Wrath included) only give me the splash screen when i try to launch the game, after this nothing happens. The game doesn't start.
And when I start C&C 4 it gives me a login page for EA Account which i don't have. When i try to create one it goes to a webpage that does not exist anymore. (i'm not asking for a solution to get past the login screen by registering somewhere i just want to play this game like i can play other games: by clicking the icon and play the game)
I've seen multiple questions about this issue and none seem to be solved satisfactory (or at least don't work for me). So this thread is mainly for EA hoping they will update the Ultimate Collection or make the games work in some other way.
The games are being run on a laptop from 2011 with Windows 7 64 bit. But this shouldn't be the problem since the other games (actually ALL games) run fine on it.
Furthermore these 3 games are the newest in the C&C Franchise and you would more likely expect the older ones to not load or something...
Below are the splash screens from Red Alert 3 and C&C3 as well as the login screen from C&C4
I heard that the C&C4 thing can be solved by starting the game's executable directly from Windows explorer, without going through Origin. Not sure if that's correct, though, so if that indeed works, could you confirm that?
(if you don't know how to get through the game folder, you can follow these instructions)
As for the others, the classic fix is to set/change the compatibility modes on the executable files of the game.
Not sure if you simply had no problems with the older games, or if you simply haven't tried them, but they do have some serious and often game-breaking bugs that can occur while playing. 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)
Red Alert 1:
- Funkyfr3sh's automatic Red Alert 1 patcher/installer
- 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:
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.
