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RA2 yuri revenge , windows 10/window 8.1
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malius123
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 12:11 am    Post subject:  RA2 yuri revenge , windows 10/window 8.1 Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

firstly let me apologise im a little enraged spent best part of the day troubleshooting this issue.
windows 10 and redalert 2/yuris revenge. not so recently i got a copy of this game in cd format, so it was an old copy, when i got it i was using a windows 8.1 system, and after some ball ache fixes and got it to work for a few week enjoying the mods reign of steel and mental omega.
recently i upgraded and got a new computer, but sadly it came with windows 10.
Come to today when i decide its time to tackle the beast that is getting ra2 installed on windows 10 via a standard cd installation. i always knew it was going to be difficult. but then i realised the fix id use for windows 8.1 to get secure disk working wasnt available for windows 10.

so far i can only get RA2 runniong on windows 10,using the xwis multiplayer download, then added files off my ra2 disk to get single player
yuri revenge xwis multiplayer download fails to create a RAMD.ini and subsequently suffers from the "can not set video " error.


so........ infuriated i went back to my old system and loaded up ra2 , and now thats gone to shit too. i seem to get the game freeze bug after a minute or 2 of game play. apparently new windows updates have screwed with my fix.so my now matter how many installations of ra2 i do, still game freeze bug. so now my system that did run ra2 is fudged with game freeze bug

after months of saturating myself in 3d design and blender im completely at a loss this this sort of thing.

has anyone got ra2/yr working on windows 10 via a standard disk install , not first decade or ultimate redstrike, just standard install disks from way back when.

or if you are using windows 10 how did you get ra2 working

the increasingly inaccessibility of ra2 modding is infuriating me.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

If you can't install then copy the already installed RA2YR from existing machine. Use
regedit to export registry entries from HKLM\Software\Westwood and merge them in
the new system with correct InstallPath.

Use the ddraw proxy - http://www.ppmforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=41633

Disable UAC if there is install problem.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I just tackled this problem a few days too & couldn't find anyway to get the original disks to work on Win10. I used the XWIS multiplayer version to install the game too but didn't have any problems with the RAMD.ini, once installed I just needed to set the compatibility mode to WinXP & it worked without any problems.

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Graion Dilach
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Location: Iszkaszentgyorgy, Hungary

PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 9:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Note that there's a memory leak prevention in Win10 which will force YR to crash between two games, so unless you use a recent Ares or the CnCNet5 launcher, you'll never get it working properly.

As for myself - I just use Ares's no-cd mode on an old CD install I made on a Win7 x86 and just copy the folder over. It worked fine on my Win10 x86, it works fine on my Win10 x64 and it works fine on my Wine (under Kubuntu 14.04).

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malius123
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 12:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

thanks alot guys, in the mean time i fixed my old windows 8.1 ra2 install and which has eased my rage with a few mental omega games.


will try the fixes mentioned here. will get back on which one fixed the "unable to set video" error.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 2:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Run as admin should fix that.

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malius123
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 2:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

i thought so too. but it doesnt, the only forum post i can find where the person fixed the issue was https://forums.cncnet.org/index.php?topic=5383.0


it was a simple fix for him, in that he updated graphics drivers. so i have tried to update my drivers and ive no got a another issue now

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/643361/-quot-other-installations-are-running-quot-cannot-update-uninstall-or-install/

the fact that ive unearthed another issue smells a little fishy to me.and currently am trying to sort out graphic drivers.

the trail continues
http://www.eightforums.com/windows-updates-activation/5906-windows-defender-kb2267602-update-fails.html

so basically for all those that cant be bothered reading the links,  the unable to set video bug is fixed by updating graphic drivers. but geforce experience relys on new windows updates to be installed, before it allows updating of drivers and the core experiance client
sadly  a bug in windows update KB2267602 that has already been installed gets affected by cavalier use of CCcleaner. meaning its marked to update a second time but because its already updated. it just hangs.


massive updated post
so can only get it running in windowed mode but menus arnt visible, still selectable,, selecting anything in skirmish menu is a nightmare.

ironically what ever wizardry Mental omega does to it installation takes away all the glithces and is playable in a skirmish.

sadly even mental omega requires to be window mode though.as it still gets the unable to set video in full screen mode , even after ive updated windows , fixed my geforce experience client,reinstalled graphics drivers and set everything to 16bit admin etc.

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