Red Alert 1 Will Not Start

[JL_Stinger]

I just installed Red Alert 1 from cncnet and the game wont start.

If I double click ra95.exe nothing happens. If I use RA95Launcher the launcher screen opens, but if I click "play offline" it closes and the game does not open. If I choose skirmish, then Launch Game the window minimizes for a few seconds then returns to normal without the game starting. In none of these cases is there any a Red Alert in my Task Manager.

I have Windows 8.1

[Tore]

No error messages or anything? Have you tried rebooting?

[JL_Stinger]

18 hours ago, Tore said:

No error messages or anything? Have you tried rebooting?

No error messages or anything, but I should know better than to report any error without first rebooting and trying again - that fixed it.

Yesterday it didn't work
Today it does
Windows is still that way

[Tore]

It is a really weird problem that has recently started happening. Game refuses to launch on install, but a reboot fixes it.

It's almost like modern Windows wants to pretend it is Win95/Win98

Glad the reboot fixed it!