To say I'm furious with this purchase is an understatement. I just tried to have a LAN game of Yuri's Revenge with a mate. - Yuri's Revenge took about 5-10 minutes to load on BOTH PCs. We do a search for help and "Yuri's Revenge is not supported by XP" and whilst this problem is acknowledge, there is no cure, bar “switching the CD to the other CD drive” which is impossible when you have just one CD drive. It sounds like the help support technician just decided to write something for the fun of it. - After the 5-10 mins, we start a network game and it doesn't load. After the game begins to load, it just freezes. - We decide to try the normal RA2 and it's slower than Rick Waller running uphill. On both computers, it freezes every 5 seconds for 1 second in BOTH Skirmish and Network. Thus, it is a performance issue. And so, after 2 hours of trying to get it working - we give up. This is PATHETIC. You just DO NOT pay for something that is loaded full of bugs. I am really, really annoyed! My hatred towards EA is restored once again! Anyone experienced similar problems?
And what's more is you can't set the compatability in XP to 98/ME. You have to launch the games through the First Decade main menu. If you browse to the install folders and launch the EXE files it claims the incorrect CD is in the drive. Maybe it's a security thing!
If you edit the EXEs to win98 compatability mode then the launcher will use those very same EXE files when launching the game.
Strange, all the games run fine on my rig, the old games are quite crisp. The only issues I have are a few video files missing and multiplayer going up the wazoo.
Me and my housemates have been having great fun playing red alert on the lan. We are using the sold out budget edition, it took some patches and we have to use gamespy to launch, but it does work well once its going.
I've had no problems with Yuris Revenge on XP64, most of the others seem to work, bar missing bits. If you look on the official C & C forum, numerous people have found fixes for missing video files and other bits and bobs. Shame EA ruined the release.
i seem to remember that ra2 and yuri's revenge ran on xp before anyway? im sure mine did fine and ive got the original copies
Can't beleive they'd screw up like this. They should have known the fans would lap this up and yet EA insulted them by shoving together a poor compilation :/ Makes me glad I stopped gaming on the pc.
ive also had no problems, if u want to lan the old versions (c&c/ra/ra2) u need to install nwlink ipz/spx/netbios protocol they work fine then
Just played 3 player LAN of: C&C:TD RA1 Ra2 C&C:TS C&C:Generals Haven't had that much fun or swearing in years! That alone make it all worthwhile. <3 EA (but still wish they didn't eat westwood).
