Red Alert 3 / Uprising won't launch game.

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Please try the following steps:

• Install legacy DirectX runtime

Even though your PC has DirectX 12, older games may still need older DirectX 9 components. Please install the DirectX End-User Runtime / June 2010 runtime from Microsoft, then restart the PC.

• Check Windows Security / Controlled Folder Access

If Windows Security is blocking the game from writing files to Documents, the game may close immediately. Please check:

Windows Security > Virus & threat protection > Ransomware protection > Controlled folder access

Either turn it off temporarily for testing, or allow the Red Alert 3 / Uprising executable.

• Clear the game config folder

Go to Documents and look for any Red Alert 3 / Uprising folder. Rename it, for example:

Red Alert 3_old

Then try launching the game again so it can recreate fresh config files.

• Disable overlays before launching

Please temporarily turn off overlays from Discord / NVIDIAGeForce Experience / MSI Center / Afterburner / RivaTuner.

If the game still closes immediately, please share the full DxDiag text file, plus any crash/error shown in Windows Event Viewer > Windows Logs > Application around the time the game closes. The screenshot only shows the System tab, so I can’t yet see the GPU driver or crash module details.