All versions of this game. Including the retail release, First Decade and EA Classics download.
Old test results
The test results for this version are very old, and as such they may not represent the current state of Wine. Please consider submitting a new test report.
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
Install and Game. Have not tried LAN/Multiplayer.
What does not
Install is hard to get right. Took a few tries and messing with mounting permissions. Once the setup program sees the iso when it's mounted you should be good.
What was not tested
Multiplayer.
Additional Comments
Make sure to get the new ddraw.dll file and the patch to 1.06 R3+. And make ddraw.dll an override!
Also remember to add ddraw to dll overrides to get it loading, virtual desktop also recommended.
WARNING for bug 4487
The game does not run correctly on SMP PCs (more than one CPU core or HyperThreading enabled); HyperThreading can be disabled in the BIOS setup.
SMP workaround
by David Eccles (gringer) on Wednesday October 24th 2007, 4:58
As mentioned in bug 4487, an alternative workaround to freezes on multi-processor systems is to restrict the wine process to a single CPU, as in:
schedtool -a 0x2 -e wine C&C95.EXE
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Drive label + "Unable to locate necessary files"
by André Offringa on Thursday December 20th 2012, 6:06
If you want to install from a mounted ISO (the ISO is now free to download from Westwood), the drive label needs to be "GDI95" or "NOD95" (depending on which ISO). Otherwise, setup.exe will report a message like "Unable to locate necessary files. Please run Setup.exe..."
However, due to bug 13273 it is currently not possible to set the drive label for a mounted CDROM disk. Moreover, also make sure that your ISO is mounted with files as Uppercase, or setup.exe will (later) report an error.
Here is a work-around to play if you have the ISO:
1. Mount your ISO with files in uppercase, like:
mount -o loop,map=off,check=relaxed GDI95.iso /mnt/any
Note the "map=off" option, this causes the files to be uppercase.
2. Copy all files to a writeable directory, e.g.
cp -r /mnt/any/* /home/anoko/GDI95/
3. Create a file in this new directory called ".windows-label", and put the correct label (either NOD95 or GDI95) in it, e.g.
echo GDI95 > .windows-label
Now, if you tell in winecfg to use the new (writable) directory as cdrom drive, you can install it.
works quite well
by omer on Friday September 17th 2010, 2:56
I am using C&C the first decade, and I update to the game latest version; After that I did the command: schedtool - a 0x1 -e wine "c&c95.exe"
and then the game worked quite well, only on window mode though, was not able to run it on full screen as well was only able to run it from the terminal..Also couldn't create a desktop shortcut or something.
c&c gold
by Ben Trusty on Tuesday August 5th 2008, 9:28
using latest c&c gold patch
tried both in virtual window and full screen
problems:
1. sound drops out randomly, does not come back unless close program and run again (rest of sound working in ubuntu)
2. if "abort mission" c&c locks-up and i have to force quit
