command and conquer crash on starting mission
Hi
Command and conquer & covert operations is crashing ("memory couldn't be written ...something like that) exactly when mission 11 of nod is starting.
I have Windows 10 and last NVidia driver.
Very sad about not able to replay these "gold age" games.
An old gamer.
Thanks for any idea.
Ah, that one. It's caused by the Commando being so close to the top of the map. It's a known bug, and it's been fan-patched 🙂
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 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 the game should work.
As Neogrant already pointed out, you can also play them all online, on cncnet 😉
@neogrant the actual cncnet pack of the game doesn't contain the missions, though. The link to the game with campaign on the cncnet page just goes to the Project 1.06 website.
