It's a well-known fact that the multiplayer balancing patches completely ruined the campaign, yes. Just the build radius nerfs make some missions completely impossible because they were designed for situations where you can build next to any building. I'm still not sure what they were expecting when they gave the game cheap early multiple building build queues anyway; it's asking for base crawling tactics. There's a reason C&C1's MCV is the end of the tech tree and costs about twice the money needed for the superweapons -_-
As for your problem, however, I believe the latest game version actually contains all of the earlier game exes as well. I sincerely hope this is true for the Origin version as well.
This topic seems to have more information:
http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showtopic=492333
Seems it's done through command line parameters:
you can run any version of TW using -runver1.0 until -runver1.09.
If you use the Origin version you will need Bibber's fixed game launchers to do this, though.
Okay so the Bibber fix didn't fix, so I guess origin has thought their way around that, it just gives an error message and says it has to close, do you want to check online for solution... then just ends. So any other ideas?? I tried entering -runver1.07 and it was just like... no
Can you check in the files of the game on your disk whether you find multiple folders for different versions, each with a rather large .dat file inside? I believe that's the true executable.
If you only find a folder for v1.09, then yeah, I guess the Origin version is severely crippled in that aspect :-\
I thought I had one that was like 6gigs but it dissapeared.... so they must have some pretty severe protection to keep the user from messing with anything.
Nonsense. In the Origin client, go to Origin -> Application Settings. In the settings, click "Advanced" You will see a line saying "Your games will be installed to the following location:"
Select the path in the box under that and copy it, and paste it in the address bar of your file explorer (winkey+E), and press enter, and you should see the folders of your installed games under it.
