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Re: Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge Freezing Up

The problem is the game bounces back and forth from virtual to physical RAM for graphics pulls.  That is most noticeable when there is a lot going on with large numbers of personnel and machines, load screens and movie excerpts.  For some reason, these newer OS types like 8-windows 10 don't like that sort thing and causes many rendering problems. There is a patch however that will fix the issue.  I have provided a patch download link below.

Graphics Patch LINK

Do things in this order>

1 download the link and extract the file.

2 Make a new empty folder on your desktop and place the extracted file in there

Locate yuri's game EXE file/ AKA application.  It will be under C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Command and Conquer Red Alert II  The file is called gamemd The file is 4,704 KB

4 Right click on it and copy. You will then want to paste that file in the folder with the patch you created earlier on your desktop in step 2.

5 Now you will want to run the patch file and activate the patch. Its so quick and easy it is self explainable.

6 Once you have done that, you will now right click on the same EXE file and copy it once more.

7 Re-paste that file back where you got it from in step 3

8 Your all done. Things should now run really fast and smooth. No more freeze ups!

9 This can be done with both Yuri's Revenge EXE (gamemd) and you can also follow the exact same steps with EXE (game) to patch RED ALERT 2 as well.

3 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Thank you so much!! Really Really helpful information.. it made my Day 🙂

  • nbdubson's avatar
    nbdubson
    4 years ago

    The patch worked great; followed these steps. Thanks bunches!!! No more saving the game every couple of minutes to keep level progress after a total screen and command freeze.

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