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9 years ago
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Problem about Command & Conquer Red Alert™ 2 and Yuri’s Revenge

Problem about Command & Conquer Red Alert™ 2 and Yuri’s Revenge. I downloaded that game yesterday and all was ok. But since today i cant play. It said that RA2 stopped working. Problem caused the program to stop working corretly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.

Whats about that? Can anyone help plz.

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    Nyerguds
    9 years ago

    @GalacticAaaaaa

    The CnCNet RA2 gameplay runs on the Yuri's Revenge engine because it has more bug fixes already, and keeping the older RA2 patched up with fixes that are already in the YR engine was just a lot of unnecessary work.

    So yeah, you can still play RA2 online on CnCNet, acting pretty much exactly like the pre-YR should, but it just uses the YR game engine.

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  • @GalacticAaaaaa

    This can be caused by a multitude of things, but most likely this is a compatibility problem.

    The basic way of handling this is to go to your games folder, open the folder of the specific game, find the application files of the game (there's quite a bunch of them, for RA2), open their properties, and fiddle around with the compatibility mode they run in.

    Another possibility is to install the RA2/YR pack of the CnCNet multiplayer service. It offers a lot of automatic and configurable compatibility fixes for the game.

  • Tnx a lot!

    I uninstalled all C&C games and reinstall, now game is running correctly🙂

    But for now i cant get in online. It tells that cant connect to Westwood server. Weird, I even turned off my firewall and antivirus, but still cant connect :/

  • I used to play RA1 many years and online too is working. Just now I wanna try RA2 and that cause I bought that from origin.com. If I download RA2 & YR day ago then I log in and I played in online. But now I messed up something or just dont understand correctly. Its just dont let me to go to online. Maybe i deleted some important stuff from my computer.

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    GalacticAaaaaa
    9 years ago

    Yes I saw that for now one I can play RA2 even in CnCNetwork and try to download that, but its downloaded only YR. Where can I play RA2 then?

    Ty!

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    Nyerguds
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    9 years ago

    @GalacticAaaaaa

    Well, by default you end up on the XWIS servers, I suppose; the old community-managed Westwood server replacement. But I'm not sure if there's actually that many players there; CnCNet is the more active community these days, because they actually still patch the games.

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    Nyerguds
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    9 years ago

    @GalacticAaaaaa

    The CnCNet RA2 gameplay runs on the Yuri's Revenge engine because it has more bug fixes already, and keeping the older RA2 patched up with fixes that are already in the YR engine was just a lot of unnecessary work.

    So yeah, you can still play RA2 online on CnCNet, acting pretty much exactly like the pre-YR should, but it just uses the YR game engine.

  • Ohhh lol...I´m so stupid. Now I see :D:D Its looks like in CnC is only YR and I even didnt run the game. But now I launch the game and saw that there the RA2 is LOL

    Seems that with XWIS account I can play only for ladder (but still I played Yesterday that boughted RA2 and can talk in lobby, dont know where that goes)

    Thanks a lot!!!

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