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It was updated, but now that you posted here I just noticed that the link on our site points to a old installer from 2016... Will be fixed soon! Uninstall the game, get the new installer from here: http://tore29.com/tsins/TSinstaller.exe

Make sure there are no compatibility modes enabled for C&C95.exe. Also, get the latest C&C95 Config from here: https://forums.cncnet.org/topic/7782-new-cnc-ddraw-release-red-alert-1-cc95/

Pre-release 1.1.3.4 Support for OpenGL and GDI renderers in the same dll. The renderer will default to OpenGL and fallback to GDI on failure New options in ddraw.ini - Vsync=(yes|no) and Render=(auto|opengl|gdi) Fixes more freezing bugs

Nice! Thanks for testing and reporting back!

That is ok, win xp is supported! Maybe try the easiest solution first, download .NET from microsoft, start it and choose "repair" http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/6/e/c6e88215-0178-4c6c-b5f3-158ff77b1f38/NetFx20SP2_x64.exe If that doesn't help, read through everything in the other link i posted. Kannst auch deutsch schreiben wenn das einfacher für dich ist!

Can you tell us the exact error message? A screenshot would be nice too

Check this: https://forums.cncnet.org/topic/7919-red-alert-cncnet-doesnt-work/?do=findComment&comment=61379 (Ignore the first part about the LAN server)

A similar problem has been reported before, It only seems to happen on windows 10. Does it hang on "Creating theories on likely enemy plan.." ? There is no known solution for it yet But I'm curious, you say you downloaded the patch for the scrollrate issues, so that means you could actually play the game before using the patch? Normally tiberian sun doesn't work at all on windows 10, did you maybe apply another patch before using TSpatch? Maybe that's somehow related to the bug

Why don't you just tell him how to fix the bug? He seems to know how to use the file explorer and how to find the game folder, so he will probably be able to get it done without teamviewer. I guess a no-cd patch might even help him, this way he could bypass the TFD launcher and start gamemd.exe directly without it forwarding him to the launcher. Should be legit since he owns the game. But finding a legit no-cd patch might be difficult though

Ok, what you see there is not the game, it's a special TFD launcher I guess. Did you already try to start the game without the launcher (not sure if that work with TFD) Look for RA2MD.exe and gamemd.exe in the game folder.

No, you don't need to try that one. Could you make a screenshot and show where it stops? compatibility modes should be all disabled, otherwise it might not work properly.

I think @dkeeton added a patch related to that, but it's only for multi player. Single player doesn't have such a change. But he probably knows what this is about, I'll ask him to post here @dkeeton was working on a patch lfor random map, but I'm not sure how it works. I think you need a special map that you load and it will then just put you on a random map, I'll ask him about it

Updated cnc-ddraw + config tools - Improved OpenGL performance - preliminary libretro shader support https://github.com/libretro/glsl-shaders Video with xBRZ freescale shader http://cnc.cloudns.pro/Test/index.php?video=RedAlert_xbrz-freescale_shader_test.mp4 Video with crt-lottes-fast shader http://cnc.cloudns.pro/Test/index.php?video=RedAlert_crt-lottes-fast_shader.mp4

So the game is starting and going fullscreen? (Is that what you mean with the loading screen?) Sorry, I never had the first decade so I don't know how it looks there. If the game is starting then TS-DDraw might help, just download ddraw.dll from github and place it inside of your game folder: https://forums.cncnet.org/topic/8350-new-ts-ddraw-release-tiberian-sun-red-alert-2-yuris-revenge/ The original westwood studios copies of red alert 2 and yuris revenge are not working too well anymore, you won't even be able to install them! It's because microsoft dropped support for some features used by the games (Safedisc)

cnc-ddraw doesn't work with YR, it's only for C&C1, Red Alert 1 and a few other non C&C games. I might add it to ts-ddraw later though

@Zjorz first test version is done! Still need to optimize it and do some tweaks to get all shaders working, but most should be working already (those that require linear=true are not working, nor do the multi-pass ones work) https://forums.cncnet.org/topic/7782-new-cnc-ddraw-release-red-alert-1-cc95/ You can download more shaders here https://github.com/libretro/glsl-shaders Don't forget to set the shader path in ddraw.ini: shader=*.glsl It's not smart yet, if you use a 2x shader then make sure you set Width/Height in ddraw.ini to 2x of your game res manually. e.g. if you play in 640x400, set width=1280 and height=800 renderer=opengl must be set in ddraw.ini, it wont work with gdi Video with xBRZ freescale http://cnc.cloudns.pro/Test/index.php?video=RedAlert_xbrz-freescale_shader_test.mp4 Note: It's a bit laggy, I have a terrible intel GPU and xBRZ is the most heavy one I tested so far. I guess it will work fine on any semi-good gpu though. If not, then try a less demanding shader instead.

There are some chinese servers you can use, you don't need to host a own server. If you want to play faster games from china then make sure all players in the game room are from china too, just one from player from outside of china will slow it down a lot. Make sure none of the chinese use a VPN, this will lag too. Players from hong kong / taiwan etc will lag too (even though they are very close, but they are not behind the great firewall of china). If you want to play with players outside of china then you'll have to play at night between 1am - 9am, it will be much faster then for chinese.

Just start the server and it will show up in the list and you can use it! It will probably not work on your home connection, that's very problematic in china, but you can try it.

What game is it about? I could record Tiberian Sun with TS-DDraw GDI and OBS just fine on win10 (using display capture) Get TS-DDraw GDI here: https://forums.cncnet.org/topic/8350-new-ts-ddraw-release-tiberian-sun-red-alert-2-yuris-revenge/ Get OBS here: https://obsproject.com/

I made a few test pictures... Hint: click on the first one and then browse through them using the arrows

Why do you actually need those launchers? I never understood it, can you explain what's needed to start the mod? I was reading that these launchers let command line parameters pass through, so I guess you need to pass some parameters to the game to launch the mods? Origin lets you specify command line parameters too, so I really have no idea what's the deal with these launchers.

It's crashing because the file "temperat.pal" is missing, which should be inside of "redalert.mix". Try to re-install the game. Make sure your security programs are not interfering with the installer

It's probably here: c: \Games\CnCNet\Red Alert\

finally!

@boshank20 That error message is interesting.... Still can't help you with it, but i'll do some research and testing later. @Bob_Bob Can you attach the ra95crash.dmp file here to a post in the forums? You can find it in your game folder. I can already see that there is a high DPI problem, the window is getting scaled (this is not supposed to happen...). Did you enable any compatibility modes for the game? don't do that!