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10 years ago
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Command & Conquer The first Decade

I have a problem that I installed the whole collection of games. But when I want to launch for example C&C Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge, It tells me to insert the DVD ROM, while infact it is in the com...
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    Nyerguds
    9 years ago

    @taherfahmy

    Then I'd say, install the community patch I linked to in my first reply. It makes all the games no-cd.

    Do note that for C&C1, RA1 and TS there have been quite some updates to the community patches since TFD, so you might want to update those further after installing it.

    Command & Conquer 1:

    Red Alert 1:

    Tiberian Sun:

    And for Red Alert 2, if you got any graphis issues, the graphics system patch DDWrapper is known to solve a lot of them. If you have issues like that, 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 the game should work.

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Anonymous
9 years ago

@Nyerguds 

Thank you again for replying. Yes I use your same version of windows. I uninstalled this update, but the same problem appears.

I'll try to elaborate maybe I wasn't clear the first time. 

  1. When I press to launch the game from "Computer" it brings this window that contains "User Account Control" saying " Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to the computer" (IMG_3365.JPG)
  2. When I press Yes, it opens the menu from where I chose to select which game I want to play.
  3. If I press for example C&C Generals, It opens up normally. The same for C&C Red alert 2, it also opens normally.
  4. But If I press on C&C Generals Zero Hour or C&C Red alert 2 Yuri's revenge, it gives me the normal screen so as If its loading the game..
  5. Then Gives me a window saying "Cannot locate the DVD-ROM" as shown in the picture attached. While in fact i didn't remove the disk.

I pressed OK and removed the disk and did all this again but with no use.

I think this explains what happens a bit better.

Again so sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for taking the time to reply. 🙂

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Nyerguds
Hero+
9 years ago

@taherfahmy

Then I'd say, install the community patch I linked to in my first reply. It makes all the games no-cd.

Do note that for C&C1, RA1 and TS there have been quite some updates to the community patches since TFD, so you might want to update those further after installing it.

Command & Conquer 1:

Red Alert 1:

Tiberian Sun:

And for Red Alert 2, if you got any graphis issues, the graphics system patch DDWrapper is known to solve a lot of them. If you have issues like that, 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 the game should work.

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    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Hi I am also having the same problem. 

    1. downoloaded ddwrapper

    2. added the two files to my games folder, which is not inside the program files folder

    3. opened the configuration file "aqrit.cfg" in Notepad and 

    4. change the "ForceDirectDrawEmulation" option to 1

    5. saved configuration file "aqrit.cfg"

    6. ran Yuri's Revenge

    7. Go the Cannot locate the DVD-ROM error

    Any suggestions as to what I should try next? 

    I run Windows 10

    • Nyerguds's avatar
      Nyerguds
      Hero+
      7 years ago

      @BattlingBastrd

      Please read all my posts here instead of just the one marked as solution. The ddwrapper one has nothing to do with the CD issue; I mentioned the answer for that in my earlier reply.

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