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@nederal 

If you expect decent tech support, you should really give a better title to your topic, and post it in the correct section...

Anyway.

The First Decade is sadly no longer supported, since Microsoft decommissioned the DRM system used by the pack. That said, the unofficial 1.03 patch removes this drm, and that gets around the problem.

https://cncnz.com/hosted-projects/command-patch/the-first-decade-unofficial-patch/

A lot of the games have been upgraded with community-created unofficial patches that fix a lot of their bugs and compatibility problems. While a bunch of those are included in the 1.03 patch, the TFD patch is rather old, and most of these patches have been maintained beyond the version that's in TFD v1.03. So it is advised to install the newer versions of those.

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:

• Funkyfr3sh's Tiberian Sun patch

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.

Do note that the first three games in the series (Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Tiberian Sun) are all freeware, so you could save yourself a lot of hassle just by downloading and installing the full freeware versions of those.