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Barnabyj0nes1
11 years ago
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Command and Conquer Ultimate Collection won't launch in Origin

I just bought and downloaded the C&C Ultimate Collection and found that NONE of the games work. Some of them just don't load, whereas others load the choice screen for original/expansion and I can't ...
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    This apples to all games:

    1) Reboot your PC.

    2) Right click Red Alert 2 in origin client.

    3) Select "Game Properties"

    4) In 'Command Line Arguments' type: "-w"

    5) Tick "Disable Origin In Game For This Game"

    6) Hit OK and enjoy!

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
11 years ago

Did they advertise with windows 8.1 support somewhere? I think they only advertised it like this "optimised for Windows 7"

Anyways, get the following patches for the first two games:

Tiberian Dawn: http://nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com/cnc95upd/cc95p106/

Red Alert 1: http://funkyfr3sh.cncnet.org/

I will release a patch for tiberian sun the next days, there are known problems with the menu drawing on windows 8

Red Alert 2 *should* work as long as you don't install any mods that rely on custom executable, but i will take a look into it the next days too

Did you already read the common problems thread regarding the problems with the newer games?

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Command-Conquer-The-Ultimate/Common-Problems-Read-This-Before-Posting/m-p/222052

  • Barnabyj0nes1's avatar
    Barnabyj0nes1
    11 years ago

    My main concern is with RA2 + YR, Generals + ZH, TW + KW and C&C 4. And none of those games are working.

    I have tried the fixes outlined in that article, including applying biddler's patch, without success.

    As Origin only gives you 7 days to request a refund I'm just going to go ahead with that, rather than wait around for a patch.

    If the game doesn't work on Windows 8, I should have been told (in no less words than, "THIS GAME DOES NOT WORK ON WINDOWS 8") before I bought it.

    Thank you for your help.

    • Nyerguds's avatar
      Nyerguds
      Hero+
      11 years ago

      Did you disable the Origin in-game overlay? It causes problems with many older games.

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