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Re: cc first decade doesn't work after Windows 10 upgrade

"The First Decade" isn't one game. Which game specifically are you having trouble with?

Command & Conquer 1, Red Alert 1 and Tiberian Sun have all been upgraded with community-created unofficial patches that fix a lot of their bugs and compatibility problems. For Red Alert 2 there's a more general patch that solves a lot of its graphics problems. You can find them here:

Command & Conquer 1:

Nyerguds' C&C95 v1.06c revision 3 patch (which also adds bonus missions originally exclusive to the Playstation and Nintendo 64 versions of the game)

Red Alert 1:

Funkyfr3sh's automatic Red Alert 1 patcher/installer
Nyerguds' main.mix cleanup for TFD/TUC (Not really needed, but cleans up about a gigabyte of unnecessary files in the RA1 folder. Unpack in the game folder, run "patch_main.bat", let it finish, and then delete the files you extracted.)

Tiberian Sun:

Funkyfr3sh's Tiberian Sun patch

Red Alert 2:

The graphics system patch DDWrapper is known to solve the "black screen" issue.
Download the zip file and extract "ddraw.dll" and "aqrit.cfg" into your game folder. Then, open the configuration file "aqrit.cfg" in Notepad, change the "ForceDirectDrawEmulation" option to 1, save the file, and the game should work.

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Anonymous
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9 years ago
the black screen is on all the games. you click on icon on desktop and the command and conquer comes on. this is the screen with all the games names when you click on each on separately you get a black screen with sound. On red alert 2 I will move the mouse to the right and start clicking I will hear the files loading but still no video. I cannot however see the mouse I have to estimate were everything is by memory.