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The Ultimate Collection contains games developed over a span of fifteen years, on a large number of different game engines, for a large number of different systems, spanning from eight to twenty-three years old. They can have a very wide variety of very different problems on modern OSes. So please specify exactly which games you tried and have problems with, and exactly what the problem is; otherwise there's nothing we can do to help you.
Note, all games in the collection are separate items in your games list. The only item in there with the actual "C&C: The Ultimate Collection" cover art is not a game; if you look at the item's details you will see it is the collection's bonus material. It isn't supposed to launch anything, it just opens the folder containing that bonus material. So just find the separate games in your games list, and install and play them separately.
That aside... a lot of the games have been upgraded with community-created unofficial patches that fix a lot of their bugs and compatibility 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)
Note that this patch fixes two quite common and completely fatal game crashes (top-of-map reconnaissance crash, stealth crash), so installing it is strongly advised. - HD music pack, with stereo music for the game.
Red Alert 1:
- Funkyfr3sh's automatic Red Alert 1 patcher/installer (The thread also has briefing videos for the expansion missions, converted from the Playstation version of the game)
- 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.)
- HD music pack, with stereo music for the game.
Tiberian Sun:
Red Alert 2:
- I advise installing the CnCNet online play installer for RA2/YR. Even if you're not interested in online play, it comes with a bunch of automatic fixes. It should automatically take care of the "black screen on startup" issue, and has a configuration tool that allows further tweaking of the game's settings.
Generals:
- GenTool seems to be the main patch for Generals these days. The website is kind of vague on what it does besides restoring multiplayer and adding anti-cheat, but I heard it does a lot to make it work better on modern OSes too.
- If you have issues with DirectX errors popping up, find and delete the file "dbghelp.dll" in the game's install folder.
Renegade:
- The Tiberian Technologies patch fixes loads of issues on Renegade.
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