CNC-Ultimate-Collection-Fixed-Launchers
Fixed launchers for the games in Origin's Command and Conquer: The Ultimate Collection. Re-enables command-line parameters for the games, adds in some missing registry keys, and adds in some community patches automatically. (by Medstar117)
cnc-ddraw
GDI, OpenGL and Direct3D 9 re-implementation of the DirectDraw API for classic games for better compatibility with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11, Wine (Linux/macOS) and Virtual Machines (by FunkyFr3sh)
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| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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CNC-Ultimate-Collection-Fixed-Launchers
Posts with mentions or reviews of CNC-Ultimate-Collection-Fixed-Launchers.
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How to change campaign game speed in YR
Medstar's launcher (Command-Line Parameters Exclusive to The Launchers)
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Red Alert 2 DDRAW.DLL Error code 80070057
There are 3rd party launchers that patches and handles The Ultimate Collection games but those are for the Origin version and I'm not sure if they even work for the EA App version.
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Anyone get any older C&C games running on the SD through EA app yet? (C&C Generals Help)
I've never used it, but maybe this can help you: https://github.com/Medstar117/CNC-Ultimate-Collection-Fixed-Launchers
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A Linux User's Guide to Command & Conquer
Command & Conquer Generals/Zero Hour: Unfortunately, we are now out of the realm of games that can be entirely fixed by a simple EXE swap out of hand. Fortunately, there are still fixes. Like all games in The Ultimate Collection (Ultimately inferior, more like...), Generals is compromised by terrible EA DRM. Unlike RA2, you can't entirely remove it, but for it and all subsequent games I'll discuss, the best way to handle things is to used the Fixed Launchers Installer. This beauty applies registry fixes and replaces the executables with slightly patched versions that remove a bit of that pesky EA DRM. You still need to have Origin installed in the prefix (I tried to avoid that, believe me), but once you've run the fixer, you no longer need to launch the games through Origin (and in fact should avoid doing so), or their launchers, and can just launch the EXEs directly. Furthermore, you don't need to keep Origin running. Oh, and mods work again. So that's all lovely. The other fix required for Renegades and Zero Hour is gentool which is a d3d8.dll replacement (add that to your DLL overrides...) which fixes the multiplayer, allows for playing at higher resolutions, offers rudimentary anticheat for online play (in that it verifies and checksums the loaded content) and so on. Never leave home without it.
cnc-ddraw
Posts with mentions or reviews of cnc-ddraw.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
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"LibreOffice is better at reading old Word files than Word"
https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw (fixes all issues you can have with DirectDraw, an old 2d API, can have its use for both windows users and people who use wine on linux)
- anyone knows how to make red alert 2 and yr work on Windows 11?
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JA2 steam version, black screen on launch.
cnc-ddraw also fixes it for me. https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases
- Massive FPS drop when playing Yuri's Revenge
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Tiberium Sun broken?
Get CnC-DDRAW, extract the .dll, paste it on your SUN folder and it should take care of the rest.
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Command & Conquer - The First Decade
And now the tricky part... and the reason why I was not able to run both RA2 and TS... You need a library called cnc-ddraw ( Releases ยท FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw (github.com) ) which fixes a lot of things for old games. When using windows you need to copy the ddraw.dll and ddraw.ini files from the zip and you are done but when using wine/proton you need a simple launch option to load the custom dll file instead of the protons builtin ddraw. Thanks to u/RoweenX4 and some google-fu.
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Any up to date guides to get Icewind Dale 2 running on modern PCs (W10) in Widescreen mode?
Regardless if you had to do the above, install https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases to your IWD2 folder and run the game thenafter.
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Crashing :( (trying to play campaign RA2)
I did everything mentioned in this post regarding the file ( https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/CnC-DDraw/releases )
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Problem starting RA2/ YR
Download CnC-DDRAW from their GitHub, paste it on your RA2 folder and launch the game again
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Recording Command & Conquer
Try installing cnc-ddraw or ts-ddraw, then use a Game Capture source to hook onto the game window.