Few questions about C&Cnet

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Hi all i have recently installed CNCnet on my laptop in order to play red alert 2 yuris revenge as was trying to get it to run faster and smoothly on windows 10, i have downloaded and installed origin and downloaded red alert 2 from the ultimate collection i purchased then after struggling to get the game to run right i read about cncnet so downloaded it and it works great however i have a few questions.

you have to give administrator permission to use is that ok ?

i never had to link my origin account or anything so can i uninstall origin and the original version of yuris revenge that came from origin ? and only use the cncnet one ?

sorry for questions if stupid just not sure if linked in anyway ?

thanks Dean
 
Been a while since i looked at cncnet.

Admin permission is fairly standard on many applications, but be sure to only download stuff you trust from official sites. In this case from cncnet and not somewhere else.

You don't need Origin for Cncnet. But cncnet is a multiplayer launcher, not a single player game. So you'll still want the original game installed. You may get away with uninstalling Origin i suspect.

C&C remaster is on sale (£9) atm from Steam btw. C&C, RA1, and Tiberium Sun are freeware now as listed on cncnet however.

There's also Openra which is a stand alone installer. I'm not sure on progress of the RA2 mod, Romanov's Revenge, but i know it's still being worked on.

And there's Mental Omega which has single player and well supported too.
 
Been a while since i looked at cncnet.

Admin permission is fairly standard on many applications, but be sure to only download stuff you trust from official sites. In this case from cncnet and not somewhere else.

You don't need Origin for Cncnet. But cncnet is a multiplayer launcher, not a single player game. So you'll still want the original game installed. You may get away with uninstalling Origin i suspect.

C&C remaster is on sale (£9) atm from Steam btw. C&C, RA1, and Tiberium Sun are freeware now as listed on cncnet however.

There's also Openra which is a stand alone installer. I'm not sure on progress of the RA2 mod, Romanov's Revenge, but i know it's still being worked on.

And there's Mental Omega which has single player and well supported too.
thanks for that info mate so seems legit, not really bothered about the single player as runs slow on origin game but through cncnet it is super quick with no lag at all just been practicing with skirmish lately great fun.

seen the other games you said listed on cncnet seems great, never played red alert 1 but will check out the remastered be good if remaster 2 and maybe add a few more units and buildings etc.

thanks again
dean
 
No problem. I didn't realise you wanted multiplayer. If this is the sole reason avoid the remaster. Openra offers a balanced game with many changes, as well as a modern interface and removes the clunkyness. But outside of Romanov's Revenge there isn't any RA2 content. Openra runs on its own engine whereas Mental Omega runs on the RA2 engine, so pros and cons to both.

I believe cncnet did some small minor changes to help rebalance RA2 a little bit.

As mentioned Mental Omega and Romanov's Revenge are worth looking at for multiplayer too.
 
I purchased C&C complete collection from Origin (currently the only way to purchase Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge) about a month ago. The C&C remastered pack on Steam doesn't contain RA2.

Once downloaded via Origin, you just install C&CNet and it detects RA2 and does the rest. It installs a link onto your desk that fires up C&CNet and logs you into a matchmaker. It's all prettymuch seemless. I've not had any problems with it, had plenty of matches, and malware bytes has not identified any issues. Lag is still a problem in matches however, despite the fact that internet connections are 100x faster than they were in early 2000s.....
 
Lag is still a problem in matches however, despite the fact that internet connections are 100x faster than they were in early 2000s.....

Possibly due to people having poo computers. Often have the same issue on openra as it's a free game, but it is cpu intensive. Looking at the Steam surveys it's surprising how many are on integrated graphics. Not sure how much of the reason it is on cncnet though as xwis used to be fairly reliable in 2vs2s a long time ago
 
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