Trouble with Command and Conquer in Windows 10

@JAGrossman

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JAGrossman wrote:

OK, sorry about the confusion. You obviously have no clue as to the post I was talking about but it was a "games" and "gamesmd" folders you were talking about in your other post. 

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I see your confusion now. First of all, those were files I talked about, not folders. Secondly, that was "game", singular. Thirdly, that was about Red Alert 2 specifically. The file "game.exe" is literally Red Alert 2; the program that is the game itself, while "gamemd.exe" is the expansion pack program.

Tiberian Sun, on the other hand, and all the C&C games before it, for that matter, doesn't have two different executables; both the game and its expansion pack are still just one program, and the choice between them is actually given in-game. The executable file for Tiberian Sun should be just "GAME.EXE".

However, Westwood had the tendency to add smaller launcher programs to the folder, with more recognizable names, like RA2.exe, Yuri.exe, Sun.exe. You can immediately see from the file size that those are not the actual game exe because they are so much smaller, and all they really do is launch those actual game exe files. But seeing as I don't know which of them is actually launched by the Origin launcher, it's best to apply the compatibility settings to all of them.

Note, if you don't see the ".exe" part of all these files when browsing the folders, I suggest you do a quick google for "show file extensions", and enable them on your system. It's pretty much impossible to do decent troubleshooting if you allow Windows to hide vital information from you.

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JAGrossman wrote:

Also my collection was installed shortcuts and all by EA Games so it confuses me that you wouldn't have shortcuts for your games, if you have them. 

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Uh... are you talking about "The Ultimate Collection", or about the earlier "The First Decade" pack? Because if this is about TFD, you should really have said so.

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@JAGrossman wrote:

As for the fix, it requires an unadulterated version of the game to use it and since the games have probably been modified by EA Games to play on a Windows 7 platform in the first place, it may do more harm than good.

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Nope. All of these fixes were specifically made to work on all versions of the games, with modern OSes in mind. The main problem with these games is that EA did NOT modify them one single byte to make them work better on modern OSes; all they did was replace the original CD checks with newer DRM. That's exactly why it was up to us, the fans, to patch these games ourselves. I can show you the full changes list for my C&C1 patch; it's several pages of critical bug fixes, improvements and enhancements. (The short overview is probably more useful for the average user, though it's missing the two critical game crash fixes the whole patch is originally based on)

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@JAGrossman wrote:

At this point I am considering getting another hard drive and creating a dual boot system so that I can play some of my other Windows 7 games as well without having to do IT patches that I am not exactly qualified to do.

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That is why I suggested the patches; they do these things for you. And even though I'm not an EA employee, the fact they made me moderator here sort of indicates that yes, I might be qualified. I literally have a decade of experience with troubleshooting these games; I started when The First Decade pack was released, which is  just about ten years ago, now 😉