C&C Red alert 2 Problem

yhack · 7 Mar 2006 at 21:38

Hi,

Every time i join a game on RA2, after about 2 minutes it will close.
It happens on both online and offline. Does anyone know what could be the problem?

Thanks in advance

Six6siX · 7 Mar 2006 at 21:41

Do you mean the game crashes to desktop or the current game quits and goes to main menu or something?

yhack · 7 Mar 2006 at 21:42

crashes to desktop

AWPC · 7 Mar 2006 at 22:01

That could be their anti piracy system. If it does not detect the original CD then the game crashes back to the desktop. Sometimes you need to upgrade the protection software or the firmware on your drive as many cannot properly detect the original CDs protection system.

yhack · 8 Mar 2006 at 15:34

that didnt work

any other ideas?

Duouk2000 · 8 Mar 2006 at 19:09

A complete reinstall maybe? Failing that look for a cracked copy somewhere since you already own the game (though that may stop you from playing online

).

cokecan · 8 Mar 2006 at 23:43

it might be something to do with the 1.006 patch if you've installed that???

i had a wierd problem where everytime i built my first unit in any game it would destroy my whole base and end the game etc. turns out it was a corupt patch i was using. a re-install of RA2 and a new download and install of the patch worked for me

slightly different problem to mine but it might work...?

AWPC · 8 Mar 2006 at 23:50

cokecan72 said:
it might be something to do with the 1.006 patch if you've installed that???

i had a wierd problem where everytime i built my first unit in any game it would destroy my whole base and end the game etc. turns out it was a corupt patch i was using. a re-install of RA2 and a new download and install of the patch worked for me

slightly different problem to mine but it might work...?

Thats also caused by Westwoods stupid anti piracy system which causes legitimate users to get the exact same problem if it cannot properly read the cd checks for the protection scheme 9think its either safedisc or securom).

Only known fix is an update for the securom/safedisc driver but that may be hard to find nowadays....