Red Alert 2 on Vista?

One More Solo · 18 Jul 2007 at 11:46

I've managed to get Tiberian Sun running fine on my Vista laptop just by changing compatibility modes, but RA2 refuses to work, keeps throwing up a string initialization error or something similar when you try and load it (though it installed fine). Anyone got it working?

Gonzo0 · 18 Jul 2007 at 12:29

Running it fine here on Vista x64

One More Solo · 18 Jul 2007 at 18:38

Which patch are you running out of interest?

Gonzo0 · 18 Jul 2007 at 18:41

One More Solo · 18 Jul 2007 at 18:43

D'oh, it wouldn't work with that or the newest patch.

What about compatibility modes?

ic1male · 18 Jul 2007 at 18:44

Have you tried running it as an Administrator? I had to do that with Tiberian Sun to get it to run.

One More Solo · 18 Jul 2007 at 20:11

ic1male said:
Have you tried running it as an Administrator? I had to do that with Tiberian Sun to get it to run.

Legend.

Works perfectly.

markyb · 18 Jul 2007 at 20:51

Im sure I had problems with RA2 running on XP sometime back. Anyone use it on XP?

snowdog · 18 Jul 2007 at 21:00

markyb said:
Im sure I had problems with RA2 running on XP sometime back. Anyone use it on XP?

Xp always worked fine, been playing it once in awhile in xp pro 32bit, in vista x64 it works also in admin mode.

Hell, I even played a langame @ my mates home with 1 copy on vista 32 bit and one copy on xp 32 bit ( I think one of them was vista anyhow, could have been xp )

markyb · 18 Jul 2007 at 21:01

snowdog said:
Xp always worked fine, been playing it once in awhile in xp pro 32bit, in vista x64 it works also in admin mode.

mmmm, ill try and install it tommrow. Im sure when I went to install it last time I had problems and I wasnt alone according to google!

One More Solo · 18 Jul 2007 at 23:04

Widescreen Red Alert 1 & 2 goodness along with some Tiberian Sun action, I'm a happy bloke. Best get my fix before Uni in September else there may not be much work done.

Cyber-Mav · 18 Jul 2007 at 23:08

did you manage to get ra2 networked on vista64? i couldn;t even get it to do network on xp64 due to no ipx protocol.

4p · 18 Jul 2007 at 23:24

So how do i get this to spread over my two 19 inch screens?

1440x900 each

One graphics card

snowdog · 18 Jul 2007 at 23:44

Thorpy said:
So how do i get this to spread over my two 19 inch screens?

1440x900 each

One graphics card

1st set video output to strech horizontally across 2 screens ( in nvidia /ati drivers), so NOT desktop extention to 2nd screen/dualview .

Then in ra2.ini inside the ra 2 folder:

look up

[Video]
ScreenWidth=1024
ScreenHeight=768
StretchMovies=no

and change it to

[Video]
ScreenWidth=2880
ScreenHeight=900
StretchMovies=no

@ cyber-mav & crunchman, I have no idea sorry

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crunchman · 18 Jul 2007 at 23:46

Cyber-Mav said:
did you manage to get ra2 networked on vista64? i couldn;t even get it to do network on xp64 due to no ipx protocol.

I'd like to hear about this as well, I haven't had a LAN game in years.

4p · 18 Jul 2007 at 23:58

snowdog said:
1st set video output to strech horizontally across 2 screens ( in nvidia /ati drivers), so NOT desktop extention to 2nd screen/dualview .

Then in ra2.ini inside the ra 2 folder:

look up

[Video]
ScreenWidth=1024
ScreenHeight=768
StretchMovies=no

and change it to

[Video]
ScreenWidth=2880
ScreenHeight=900
StretchMovies=no

@ cyber-mav & crunchman, I have no idea sorry .

Cheers m8

skanky · 19 Jul 2007 at 07:03

Cyber-Mav said:
did you manage to get ra2 networked on vista64? i couldn;t even get it to do network on xp64 due to no ipx protocol.

i thought red altert used TCP as well?