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mick17266's avatar
5 years ago
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My games i play on my laptop keep freezing after about 10 mins, what's going on?

I've downloaded the command & conquer series. In using a laptop HP Pavilion. All the games keep freezing when playing and Tiberian Sun doesn't load at all. I have deleted it and reloaded it but it st...
  • Nyerguds's avatar
    5 years ago

    @mick17266 Make sure your power settings are always set to "high performance". Laptops sometimes do weird stuff with that, and it can mess up these older games.

    Besides that, though, 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" 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.

    Renegade:

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