Red Alert too slow to launch

[Hunter]

Hi.

 

I've encountered a little problem with RA. I'd like to play with some friends but, the fact is, while hosting/joining, once the party is launch, the game launches after the 25-seconds delay that disconnects from the others.

 

I'm running on Windows 10 (64 bits). Anyone else encountered this ?

[FunkyFr3sh]

The game needs more than 25seconds to start for one of the players? Check your security programs, something might slow down the game start dramatically. It should start instantly

[Hunter]

Mh, already turned off firewall (and obviously opened all to RA programs), but nothing happened. I also tried to do some stuff with options (resolution, etc), nothing.

 

EDIT : Solo mode does the anormally long launching too.

[FunkyFr3sh]

I'm not sure if you can get it working by tweaking the game settings, then only thing you could try is turning off CnC-DDraw.

 

I don't know anything about windows 10 yet, maybe it has some special security settings built in that could cause such problem, i'm sure other people have the same problem with different games. Maybe you can find some information on google about it

[Hunter]

I'll look after that ... It's the first game on Windows 10 I have a problem with.

 

Anyway, thanks.

[FunkyFr3sh]

You could try to go to your game folder and start the game manually with a double click rather than using the launchers.

 

For the full single-player installation the game executable is called "ra95.exe" and for the mini online version it is called "ra95-spawn.exe"

[Hunter]

Already tried.

 

I'm looking for some things on google, maybe it will work. Maybe not. If it does, I'll tell you.

[FunkyFr3sh]

It also starts slow if you start it manually via the game .exe?

[Hunter]

Yes, it was. But I found a way to fix the problem. (Thanks to google.)

 

I install all my games on another HDD than the OS'. I had to change the virutal memory allowed to the "Game" HDD following this scheme (http://www.rbrussell.com/2015/02/25/possible-fix-windows-10-running-very-slow/) :

 

– Open up Control panel

– Type in "Performance" into the search field

– Click "Adjust the appearence and performance of Windows"

(or Right-Click on My PC and select Properties)

– Open Advanced tab and click "change" button

– First uncheck "automatically manage paging file size for all drives"

– Then highlight drive the HDD the game is installed

– Select "System managed size" (Or you can allow the size you want, I think)

– Click “Set” and OK

– Finally Restart your PC and you're done

 

Now the game launches instantly (1-2 secs delay sometimes). I hope it will continue to work this way.

 

EDIT : Well, it worked for the five minutes after starting the PC. ._.

 

EDIT (Again) : When you choose the size, it seems that it works better. I'll test that tommorow, it's about seven in the morning here.

[FunkyFr3sh]

After 5minutes it was slow again?

 

Your test was still awesome, at least it showed that it is possible to start the game up quickly. I'm sure there is a way to fix it properly

 

 

If you have enough ram it might even be possible to turn the pagefile off totally

[Hunter]

It works this time.

 

I changed the size manually so it works fine now. I also deactivated this option for the others HDD (I have four, but I let this for the OS and Game only).