You stolen my money again
When you want to stop distribute ( and steal customer's money with ) unusable games?
I just realized that I lost my money again, because the C&C ultimate collection is unusable full of bugs. The EA...
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I'm not EA. I'm a volunteer helping people out because I like helping people. This is not a complaints forum, this is a place to ask for help, where both EA support people and other players can give responses to help people out.
I can't give much help if you don't give any information at all, though. Which specific problems do you have, with which specific games?
To get started: Command & Conquer 1, Red Alert 1 and Tiberian Sun have all been upgraded with community-created unofficial patches that fix a lot of their bugs and compatibility problems. For Red Alert 2 there's a more general patch that solves a lot of its graphics problems. 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)
Red Alert 1:
- Funkyfr3sh's automatic Red Alert 1 patcher/installer
- 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.)
Tiberian Sun:
Red Alert 2:
- The graphics system patch DDWrapper is known to solve a multitude of graphics problems, including the "black screen" issue.
Download the zip file and extract "ddraw.dll" and "aqrit.cfg" into your game folder. Then, open the configuration file "aqrit.cfg" in Notepad, change the "ForceDirectDrawEmulation" option to 1, save the file, and try running the game again.
@DestroyerT72 wrote:
I could not explain my dissappointment.
No, but you could explain what problems you're actually having with the games...
As for EA, simple fact is, there is no one employed at EA to take care of the C&C games, and no one employed at EA who even knows how these games work. Ever since Generals 2 was cancelled, there is literally no C&C team at EA.
So yes, I'm pretty much the closest you can get. But don't let that worry you, I got years of experience in fan-patching these games.
