WDemon15 tested this app under Windows XP and rated this product 3 out of 5 points.
WDemon15's comments:
"Game works and installs normally. But when you hear "Incoming Transmission" and the movie starts to play, game can hang sometimes but you can still move the cursor. The only solution I know is to kill game.exe process and then re-run the game."
Anonymous tested this app under Windows Vista and rated this product 1 out of 5 points.
Anonymous's comments:
"Installs fine, but running it results in "FATAL: string manager unable to initialize""
Anonymous tested this app under Windows XP and rated this product 5 out of 5 points.
Anonymous's comments:
"I've been able to get it to work, but you have to change the shortcut's compatibility mode.
Right-click on the shortcut to Red Alert 2, and select Compatibility. I believe it works if you change the compatibility to Windows 95."
Anonymous tested this app under Windows Vista and rated this product 1 out of 5 points.
Anonymous's comments:
"A small white box appears in the center of the screen and locks up when you autostart the cd then i take the ra2 cd out and put it back in and it loads a black screen and locks up, then i take the cd out and put it back in and it loads the normal setup screen in 680x400 mode and lets me get to the point where it starts to install Ra2 and then it cant even progress past 0% complete due to locking up again, if you take the cd out at this point it returns an error that it cant read a sound file. And if you put the cd in it locks up again.... Why???"
Anonymous tested this app under Windows Vista and rated this product 3 out of 5 points.
Anonymous's comments:
"It works perfect on single player mode but doesn't work online has trouble signing in to westwood online, Also when you exit the game it stalls on a black screen and you have to start task manager and end the process!!"
Anonymous tested this app under Windows 2000 and rated this product 1 out of 5 points.
Anonymous's comments:
"Hm...at least you guys seem to be able to install...I've read the other threads about RA2 and I couldnt find a solution for my problem. I run setup and get the "Encountered an error...must close etc..." message. But the weird is that I have Yuri's Revenge and its setup actually works...also...RA2 setup didnt work with any of the compatibility options. Most strangely though is that back in a month or so I had installed it(and later uninstalled) and now it wont work, I didnt update winXP or anything in long before RA2 being installed. I think we better use older OS's to run these older games afterall, or there will be always some kind of issue."
Anonymous tested this app under Windows 2000 and rated this product 5 out of 5 points.
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Anonymous tested this app under Windows Vista and rated this product 4 out of 5 points.
Anonymous's comments:
"I found that it runs perfectly if your right click on the shortcut, and run the program as administrator, hope this helps."
Anonymous tested this app under Windows 2000 and rated this product 5 out of 5 points.
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Anonymous tested this app under Windows 2000 and rated this product 5 out of 5 points.
Anonymous's comments:
"Thanx guys.. RA2 works fine , when you right click on shortcut and "run as administrator".. But i still cant find IPX protocol for Vista to play network... =) happy XMAS"
Anonymous tested this app under Windows NT 4.0 and rated this product 1 out of 5 points.
Anonymous's comments:
"Crashes during installation (NT4 SP6 with IE6SP1 with shell update)"
Anonymous tested this app under Windows XP and rated this product 5 out of 5 points.
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Anonymous tested this app under Windows Vista 64 Bit (x86_64) and rated this product 5 out of 5 points.
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Anonymous tested this app under Windows Vista and rated this product 5 out of 5 points.
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Anonymous tested this app under Windows Vista and rated this product 5 out of 5 points.
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Anonymous tested this app under Windows Vista and rated this product 5 out of 5 points.
Anonymous's comments:
"RA2 (from the "updated" First Decade release) still does not support TCP/IP connections. Windows Vista does not support the IPX/SPX protocol required for RA2 to function for network gaming, which is half the fun. You can try these steps (which didn't work for me): http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1200750&SiteID=17"
Anonymous tested this app under Windows 2000 and rated this product 1 out of 5 points.
Anonymous's comments:
"Install problem of Cant read language .mix."
Anonymous tested this app under Windows XP and rated this product 5 out of 5 points.
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Anonymous tested this app under Windows Vista and rated this product 5 out of 5 points.
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Anonymous tested this app under Windows Vista and rated this product 5 out of 5 points.
Anonymous's comments:
"I have C&C the first Decade it plays generals w/ expansion great, for some weird reason this time i could get red Aler2 and the expansion to sucessfully install. at first when i tried to launch it it said Fatal String Error. and so i relaunched the first decade under run as administrator, and it worked fine."
Anonymous tested this app under Windows 2000 and rated this product 5 out of 5 points.
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Anonymous tested this app under Windows 2000 and rated this product 5 out of 5 points.
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Jerpsi tested this app under Windows Vista and rated this product 1 out of 5 points.
Jerpsi's comments:
"Installation & patching works 100%. Compatibility problems with Windows Vista. Running as administrator and in Windows XP or 2000 compatiblity mode doesn't fix a thing, running with modes older than Windows 2000 just keeps throwing me back to desktop, with the game.exe running in the background. Also tried registry cleaning methods (Registry Easy 5.6, RegCure) that have been working on some people, didn't work for me. On top of that, I disabled Hardware Acceleration and lowered texture filtering settings for game.exe from Nvidia Control Panel
Specs: Windows Vista SP2 Nvidia Geforce GT 220 (2815Mt memory) Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 @ 2.80GHz Intel G43 Express- Chipset 4 Gt DDR3-SDRAM IPIEL-LA3 (Eureka3) motherboard
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Anonymous tested this app under Windows Vista and rated this product 1 out of 5 points.
Anonymous's comments:
"Games like Red Alert 2, might just be too old for newer OS's like Windows Vista. I founded the problem for people having black screens when trying to play Red Alert 2 with Vista/Win7. The problem is your DirectX, Red Alert 2 requires DirectDraw to work but newer DirectX versions like DX11 doesn't enable DDraw anymore. Therefore I tried to solve this problem by running dxdiag from RA2 cd and enable the DirectDraw option, but it didn't work for me."
