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Anonymous
10 years ago

Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge wont install on Windows 10

I've got my old disc copies of RA2 and YR and have tried installing them on my recently upgraded Windows 10 computer. However when I try running the setup.exe file on the disc it brings to a black sc...
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Nyerguds
Hero+
10 years ago
 
  • Download the DirectX Redistributables package from June 2010. Be sure to uncheck any other junk they want to add to it. It should be a file called "directx_Jun2010_redist.exe".
  • Run the downloaded file. It'll ask for a folder to unpack in. Make a new folder somewhere on your disk and unpack it there. It doesn't matter where you unpack it; it can be deleted afterwards anyway.
  • Go to the folder where you told it to extract.
  • Find "DXSETUP.exe", and run that to install the missing components.
  • After the installation finished, delete the folder you unpacked everything in.
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Anonymous
10 years ago

Still gets the same error, not exactly sure what the case is now considering the older files seem to  have been successful installed.

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