Red Alert 2 Base explodes in a minute
I got the Red Alert 2 and Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge for Origin, but when I play Red Alert 2, my base gets exploded in 1 minute and I lose the game. Yuri's Revenge seems okay but I didn't tested out ...
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Straatford87
DICE Team
DICE TeamHi @PridexSP,
The base exploding issue is often caused by owning an illegal version of the game.
You however mention that you have the Origin version. This game is currently available on our On the House promotion. If you have this version, make sure that you have no older or illegal version of the game installed on your computer. It also sometimes helps to run Origin / RA2 as admin. You can do this by right clicking the shortcut and selecting "Run as administrator". Also, make sure that you turn off Origin in-game.
Alternatively, I would advise you to check out the stickies on our C&C Board, they offer a lot of information.
Good luck!
*Moving this thread to C&C boards*
I have purchased the whole range of Command & Conquer from Origin for the past 2 years the last time just a few months ago. I am having to completely delete any presence of Command and Conquer from my PC and then reload a fresh copy and login as I always have. This usually works but if I try to run Red Alert again I get Red Alert 2 exploding with the first minute of play.
Please advise?
A lot of the games have been upgraded with community-created unofficial patches that fix a lot of their bugs and compatibility 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)
Note that this patch fixes two quite common and completely fatal game crashes (top-of-map reconnaissance crash, stealth crash), so installing it is strongly advised. - HD music pack, with stereo music for the game.
Red Alert 1:
- Funkyfr3sh's automatic Red Alert 1 patcher/installer (The thread also has briefing videos for the expansion missions, converted from the Playstation version of the game)
- 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.)
- HD music pack, with stereo music for the game.
Tiberian Sun:
Red Alert 2:
- I advise installing the CnCNet online play installer for RA2/YR. Even if you're not interested in online play, it comes with a bunch of automatic fixes. It should automatically take care of the "black screen" issue, and has a configuration tool that allows further tweaking of the game's settings.
Generals:
- GenTool seems to be the main patch for Generals these days. The website is kind of vague on what it does besides restoring multiplayer and adding anti-cheat, but I heard it does a lot to make it work better on modern OSes too.
Renegade:
- The Tiberian Technologies patch fixes loads of issues on Renegade.
- 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)
