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mycetozooa's avatar
10 years ago

RA3 LAN Your cd key is already in use but we have 2 unique copies of the game.

So when i try to play LAN with another PC in my network When we try to join the game lobby it says Your CD key is already in use

But we have 2 unique copies of the game I dont understand why it says that please help! 

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Do you both have the ultimate collection? Red Alert 2 had the same problems since they had to patch the game to get it working without cd (they kinda replaced the copy protection). The solution was to insert a random number as fake cd key into the registry, not sure if that will work on red alert 3 too

  • If you're running on Windows 10, try running the game in compatibility mode for Windows 7 (can be done by right clicking application and going into properties). I had an error message show up saying that the CD key is already in use, even though the game instances had different CD keys.

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