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FrozenNitroo's avatar
FrozenNitroo
4 years ago

Is Command and Conquer Ultimate (fail) Collection a joke?

I know these are quite old games, but if they are still sold and officially supported on a game platform, then in my opinion they should just work.

Like games work on steam.

This is totally disappointing and I guess this is my first and last purchase on origin.

Tried part 3 and 4, none of them works. Tried all the tweaks and workarounds from 

here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/C-C-The-Ultimate-Collection/Info-How-to-run-older-Command-amp-Conquer-titles-on-Windows-8-1/td-p/4236614

and here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/C-C-The-Ultimate-Collection/Command-and-Conquer-4-Tiberian-Twilight-In-game-login-problem/td-p/7294030

nothing works.

And why should one even mess around with commandline parameters and other stuff, shouldn´t the origin client do this by default (to get the game running)?!

Did I miss something or is it just not working nowadays with windows 10?

Greetings

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  • Nyerguds's avatar
    Nyerguds
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    @FrozenNitroo 

    Truth is, especially for the older games, the community patched and upgraded these games a lot more than EA ever could. We already know from the C&C and RA remasters that they don't have the full source code needed to release new version updates of the older games, and even if they had, these are technically freeware, so there's not really any money to be made from patching them. That's why they remastered them, instead.

    But, yea, as I said, 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:

    Red Alert 1:

    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:

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