Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge Freezing Up
When the C&C RA2 Yuri's Revenge main menu screen & skirmish options screen are used then the game starts to freeze up. I usually have to use "ctrl", "alt" & "del" keys a few times to exit out. I've t...
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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.
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
3 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.
Thank you so much!! Really Really helpful information.. it made my Day 🙂
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.
Wow. What a patch. Thanks.
