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The_Coath
10 years ago
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Red Alert 2 Fatal String Error

So I am running Windows 8.1 and have for that last two hours been trying to get Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge to run. Every time I am met with the Fatal String Error. I have tried multiple forms of...
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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    @thecoath

    This error is related to the lack of admin rights (or maybe even a security program is blocking the access), the game fails to register blowfish.dll and it is therfore unable to read the .mix data files. Make sure you run it as admin and allow it in your security programs, tiberian sun has the same "problem" and i made a tool that sets the needed registry key, if you cannot figure it out then give my tool a try if you want http://downloads.cncnet.org/Games/TiberianSun/TiberianSunDllFix.exe

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
10 years ago

@thecoath

This error is related to the lack of admin rights (or maybe even a security program is blocking the access), the game fails to register blowfish.dll and it is therfore unable to read the .mix data files. Make sure you run it as admin and allow it in your security programs, tiberian sun has the same "problem" and i made a tool that sets the needed registry key, if you cannot figure it out then give my tool a try if you want http://downloads.cncnet.org/Games/TiberianSun/TiberianSunDllFix.exe

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    The_Coath
    10 years ago

    My friend, you are a saviour. I actually saw you post the same solution in other threads, but the link included in those was dead. Thank you so very much for sorting this ham-salad out for me!

    *Salutes* Commander.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      10 years ago

      Great to hear it finally works now 🙂

      I totally forgot to update all these old links, fixed all of them up now

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