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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.
Btw you can add your custom artwork to your newly installed cnc game from Command & Conquer: The First Decade - SteamGridDB and you can use SGDBoop - SteamGridDB plugin for easy use which I highly recommend.