I just bought C&C Ultimate Collection and some of the games work but others (Red Alert 2, Yuri's Revenge, Tiberian Sun, and Command & Conquer 4) do not launch. When I clicke the game, i get "Fatal Error - String Manager failed to initialize properly". I've tried re-installing, running as an Administrator, changing compatibility modes (I am on Windows 8). nothing seems to fix it. Any suggestions?
What did you run as admin? Origin? Or each game's launcher? Try running the launchers as admin if you didn't.
Just in case: The launchers are inside each game's root directory.
Running as admin worked for some people, but it may also be caused by Windows' UAC blocking access to certain files. Are you the admin on the specific PC and logged in as such? Alternatively you can try disabling UAC in: "Control Panel" -> "User Accounts" -> "change User account settings" just to test (although I didn't need to do this as a permanent solution)
As far as I know, only RA2/YR gives that 'string manager' error... and it's caused by not being admin and/or not running in compat mode.
Using Origin, I have set all *.EXE files to be compatible with Windows 95 and "run as administrator" , but I still get the error on Windows 7.
I also stop secdrrv per
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3086255
Any ideas?
Use WinXP SP3 compatibility mode. These games are a bit newer than Win95.
Set compatibility settings to XP SP3, and still get the error.
MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3086255
If I were sure that this error applied ONLY to RA 2, I might pay for RA 3 and the other C & C games in the pack.
Any thoughts?
