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ButcherGrindsla's avatar
9 years ago

Timer and synch glitch (RA1 saves for TS and Renegade)

Problem with time counter.

I played "Red Alert 1" for 43 hours. But noticed that the same ammount displayed for "Renegade" and "Tiberian Sun". Tried installing them and ALL saves from RA1 also synchronized as a result. All other games from collection work correctly for now at least.

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  • EA_David's avatar
    EA_David
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    9 years ago

    Thanks., I wonder if you install RA1 to a different drive than the other games, does this have any effect on the issue?

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    EA_David
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    9 years ago

    @ButcherGrindslam Thanks for all the steps you've tried. I was finally able to replicate this issue, and I'll try to raise this on my end. 

    However I wasn't able to replicate this with disabled cloud saves. Can you try disabling it, then create a RA1 save, then open Tiberian Sun and see if the saves are wiped. 

    By the way I assume you've been making backups of the saves, but if not they are the SAVEGAME.nnn files in Origin Games\Command and Conquer Red Alert.


    The cloud sync is writing the Tiberian Sun saves to this file and removing the RA1 saves, so I don't see how the issue persists with Cloud Saves disabled. Do you play on more than 1 system?

  • Reinstalled TS and RA1. Disabled and re-enabled cloud. Saves separately BUT every time annoying window pops out saying my saves on PC are not the same stored in cloud. Timer shows the same ammount of time played still.

    I play on different machines. So that's why i bought the compilation to get rid of save transfer routine through USB stick from my main PC to netbook and back.

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    EA_David
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    9 years ago

    Thanks for the extra info. It looks like this will need to be addressed by the Origin team, unfortunately the "workaround" for now is to avoid using the cloud saves, and/or be sure to keep backups. 

    I'm sorry that I wasn't able to find a solution, but thank you for all the steps you've tried. 

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    Nyerguds
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    9 years ago

    @ButcherGrindslam

    Command & Conquer 1, Red Alert 1 and Tiberian Sun are all freeware, though. Installing the freeware version should get rid of any savegame-disappearing problems on those games, at least.

    Command & Conquer 1:

    Red Alert 1:

    Tiberian Sun:

  • EA_David's avatar
    EA_David
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    9 years ago

    Yep, hopefully this should work while the Origin issue still exists. 

  • I know that all of them are freeware. Patched RA1 and C&C1 after installing (wtih your patches) 'cause both of games are unplayable in Win7 and above without fixes. Bought the collection to have all in one place and to sync saves. At least, other titles work correctly.

    Waiting for Origin fix.

    Thanks anyway.

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