Re: command and conquer red alert 2. keeps freezing randomly

installing is not the problem.. its in game that i freeze all the time.. this link(s?) are only  for installing problems

(Same user only different name, and cant delete this message)

i dont know about the ultimate collection potions and the kaucher things i tried to do the solution underi t but i dont think i should have done it .. and dont know what to do with the others ( sicnei have theo rigin version of the games)

edit: it still freezes.. i did the ultimate dition one without the launcher patch and i did the dll add part first i think ( i,m a bti fuzzy on that.. didnt edit anything except screen with which didnt work i think

@darkkanepower

Except you didn't read the bit where it tells you how to handle them on modern Windows, towards the bottom of the page.

i did and reread it again to see what you meant.. i DID put the ddwrapper in but never used that extra patcher download that was also mentioned... duh thats why it didnt work. thanks for telling me :D

cant test it yet but will  reply when i find otu it worked or not

still didnt work after i did the ddwrapper and patcher.. ( or do i do the patch first then ddwrapper?) i still freezes suddenly.. i dont even know if its temporary or a full freeze but i cant play if i  have to do the same mission over because i,m stuck by freezing and dont save every little step i make

i have done everything except the parameters thing mentioned here ( and for some reason ra2.exe cant be compatibled, only game.exe can be compatibled) and then the game freezes on the startng schreen.. really dont know if the order of updates/files adding/ patches make a difference or anything)

and i think its the virus scanner that  made it unplayable since it deleted the exe file needed to start the game yesterday

shouldnt launch the edited game over origin anyways lol thats why it never worked when starting up after updating the game with the extra files

@macks_1978 Have you attempted the steps in the accepted solution to see if they help?

@macks_1978 Please try these steps.

• Right click on Desktop
• Select Screen Resolution
• Click Detect (with no additional monitor connected)
• Next to your first display, you'll see a grey square with the text "Another display not detected" Click on the grey square
• Next to "Multiple displays" it will say "No display detected"
• Click on "No display detected"
• A drop-down menu will appear
• Select "Try to connect anyway on: VGA"
• Click on your primary display (the square with the big "1" in it)
• Next to "Multiple displays" select "Extend these displays"

Let me know how you get on.

So you're basicly saying im never gonna be able to play this game whilst using 2 screens?
There have to be other fixes for this problem, its way to stupid to have to disconnect my second screen every time i want to play red alert 2 :/

Hi!

Red Alert 2 works great with windows 7, 8 and 10.

It is a problem with windows 7, 8 and 10 when you download a good copy of the game ( There are many bad, bad downloads pages, so take care). If the game not will start. A string error pops up “FATAL string message” Go to your RA2 folder. Find RA2.exe. Right click your mouse. Couse properties. Then let your OS solv the problem and confirm all of it. Then the “string” problem is gone and you can open the game. In windows 7 it’s no problem but in windows 8 and 10 you have to do a bit more ot it crashes.

In windows 8 and 10 all you have to do is using CnCGraphicsPatch. It will take care of grafikk problems witch makes the game stop and you have to restart your beloved computer time after time. I got the patch and can email it to you or you can download it on: http://www.stuffhost.de/files/cnc/   No virus, no pop ups, a clean site.

But this you have to know: (it’s not RA2.exe you have to patch, it’s “game.exe” in the RA2 folder you do it with.

Read this:

At the time of release, this project was merely a day old, so if anything does not work, send me a message.

This patch is designed to improve rendering in Windows Vista and later.

It might not have an effect on earlier versions of Windows, or it might even have a negative impact.

This patch is also stupid, because it does not automatically distiguish between OS versions to select the best behavior.

Sorry for that, but I won't change it.

Testing showed this patch is working even with mods like Twisted Insurrection for Tiberian Sun and Mental Omega 2.0psi (which is using NPatch).

So chances are good it is working for other mods, too.

How to use

Download the patcher and either put in in the same directory as the game or put the game.exe/gamemd.exe file in the same folder as this patcher and run it.

The patch is not applied until you apply it explicitly, and it can be undone again using the patcher.

To prevent issues with Windows Vista or later, I recommend to put the patcher into a separate folder and copy the game file into it.

Copy it back after patching.

Also: Back up your original game file, just to be sure.

You will need the Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 to run this tool.

After all files are patched, this patcher is not needed any more.

Background

The dimetric Command & Conquer games use several temporary graphics to draw to.

Some of them are allocated in Video RAM, some of them are allocated in system RAM.

When the game wants to draw something, the data has to be copied from VRAM to system RAM,

which is an expensive operation and it gets more obvious the more objects (units, debris, ...) are on the map.

The patch changes the game to not allocate surfaces in VRAM in the first place, so this cannot become an issue.

The following bytes need to be changed. This is not optimized. If you understand the raw assembler instructions,

you can optimize it by putting a jmp there.

Game   Offset   Original            Patched

Tiberian Sun     0008AC2F      3C 01 75 0C   90 90 90 90

Red Alert 2      000AA51F      3C 01 75 0C   90 90 90 90

Yuri's Revenge 000BA61F      3C 01 75 0A   90 90 90 90

Credits

The patches solve the problem the same way as it is done by Ares, the Yuri's Revenge expansion dll.

The original fix was implemented by DCoder. I applied this solution to TS and RA2 and coded the patching tool around it.

CnCPatcher © AlexB

And you need to download ipxwrapper-0.6.1 (258 kB) and understand the readme.txt in the *.rar file. Then you can play mulitplayer game. A good download site: http://www.solemnwarning.net/ipxwrapper/  No virus, no pop ups, a clean site. But you have to read the readme.txt

And if you want to know more about old games as RA2, HL, CS or Quke. It’s running for free on my computer. Send me a mail. I got all this games. I give it away for free. If you have a FTP server running or I can send you this games for free on a memoreystick. As long as you pay for freight and send me a memoreystick before that. J 4 GB is all that it takes for RA2, Quake, Half Life and CS. And RA2 is almost fit for fight. Just ipxconfig.exe has to be sett up right if you have wifi or lan…

Good luck for all the old games!

Knumort 😇 gmail.com

I do it, but its freezing again 

when I try play the game it starts and the screen goes black and the sound comes through but it doesn't show on the screen 

thx for the patch it stopped my game from freezing I actually made thru the first level! thx again

My RA2 freezes as well, the same problem as you. What really annoys me is that EA are quick to take your money for the game but leave us messing about for hours trying to fix it to play. EA should have put the necessary patches in the game before they sold it to us.  

Hi

I had followed the DDRAW instructions as many have and RA2 is STILL freezing BUT I have found the following fix that I cannot see anywhere else online.

If you are still getting random game freezes then open aqrit.cfg and make sure you have SingleProcAffinity = 1 in there (add or change the line)

This forces the game to run on a single processor and it has fixed it for me... (so far) I will be back to delete this comment if I get another freeze

Hopefully that's it.

Thanks

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@Veraad wrote:

Hi

I had followed the DDRAW instructions as many have and RA2 is STILL freezing BUT I have found the following fix that I cannot see anywhere else online.

If you are still getting random game freezes then open aqrit.cfg and make sure you have SingleProcAffinity = 1 in there (add or change the line)

This forces the game to run on a single processor and it has fixed it for me... (so far) I will be back to delete this comment if I get another freeze

Hopefully that's it.

Thanks

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SingleProcAffinity = 1 solves the freezing issue for me as well.

Thanks for sharing what fixed the issue for you @Mr_Jack_J.

Darko 

ty for the post

Hey @apokallips are you having an issue that we can assist with?

Darko 

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@EA_Darko wrote:

@macks_1978 Please try these steps.

• Right click on Desktop
• Select Screen Resolution
• Click Detect (with no additional monitor connected)
• Next to your first display, you'll see a grey square with the text "Another display not detected" Click on the grey square
• Next to "Multiple displays" it will say "No display detected"
• Click on "No display detected"
• A drop-down menu will appear
• Select "Try to connect anyway on: VGA"
• Click on your primary display (the square with the big "1" in it)
• Next to "Multiple displays" select "Extend these displays"

Let me know how you get on.

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here in Feb 2024, got RA2 thru EA Games app "Command & Conquer™ The Ultimate Collection"

Running Win 7

*not sure if needed but, have Compatibility mode set for Win 7 as well*

THANKS!  I had forgotten how to do this as I used to run old games like this b4.  The simple fix comes thru yet again!  🤓