As a lover of the C&C franchise, I bought the game for my Windows 10, 64-bit PC - not expecting a great deal, but hey, the game was only $18 - worth the risk! All the games work, except for Tiberian Sun & TS Fireworks: I get an error message saying either TS Launcher is not compatible or it is missing a DLL file. I am not sure how to fix it, if it can be fixed, but I plan on keeping my eyes out for an old 95/98 or ME PC - a pity I got rid of it years ago. That is probably the only way I get to play the game.
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Please don't hijack old topics to post your own unrelated problems; neither the Windows version nor the actual error you get is in any way related to what has been discussed in here.
That aside... the missing dll thing is caused by user right problems; running the game as administrator should solve it. For the rest, 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:
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.
