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Re: CC Red Alert 2 / Yuri's Revenge Graphics Patch FIX! Windows 8/10

@Salamander The game speed in the ini file is actually not a "speed" setting, but a "delay between game ticks" setting, meaning it's inverted. 0 means no delay, a higher value means more delay between actions, meaning the game slows down. In fact, in C&C1 I've experimenting with "overclocking" it, making the game run in super-slow-motion, allowing me to manipulate the start of the game in some missions to a extent I could save stuff that was 100% meant to get destroyed. (This doesn't tend to work in later games since they actually have scripting to forcibly destroy stuff)

Not sure why you're calling the remasters low effort, though. They're pretty much exactly what was expected. Original gameplay, updated UI and graphics, and a huge ton of extras.

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Salamander
4 years ago
Thanks for the reply @Nyerguds Nyerguds
I think you may have misunderstood my post. I didn't state that the 2020 remaster of C&C and Red Alert was low effort, I loved it and thought it was perfectly done. What I was saying was that the C&C Collection on Origin was "low effort" as the games now just barely run and are full of bugs and issues when running on modern OS's. Granted the great community has stepped up and provided ways to work around those, but its still poor from EA to leave them in the state they are in.
Nyerguds
Hero+
4 years ago
@Salamander Oh, oof. Yea, I misread that.

Yea, TUC is basically just the newer games combined with the old First Decade pack, without any real updates since TFD was released 15 years ago. The main issue here though is mostly that these games are ancient, and EA probably doesn't even have the full source code for a lot of them, meaning it would cost them a lot more money to try to maintain them than would ever be worth it to them. And meanwhile, the C&C community has already done loads of work digging into these old games for modding and patching purposes.

So it's a bit of a tradeoff... EA turns a blind eye to all those C&C community projects that undoubtedly play it pretty loosely with the EA EULAs by digging into the games' internals, but in return, they, and not EA, are kind of the ones keeping the games functional.

It's not ideal... but it works.
Salamander
4 years ago
I had already installed the gfx patch and saw an improvement, but last night I installed the dwrapper patch also and it seemed smoother still. Not sure if it was a placebo effect or not but after doing both, things are running smoother now.
RA2 GFX patch
https://answers.ea.com/t5/C-C-The-Ultimate-Collection/CC-Red-Alert-2-Yuri-s-Revenge-Graphics-Patch-FIX-Windows-8-10/m-p/4840120#M11979
ddwrapper RA2 patch
https://answers.ea.com/t5/C-C-The-Ultimate-Collection/I-can-t-play-Red-Alert-2-with-4k-screen-changed-resolution-but/m-p/8959922#M18383