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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 1.00x



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NameCommand & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Version1.00x
License Retail
URLhttp://www.westwood.com
Votes 9
Link Download update
Link Download maps
RatingSilver
Wine Version1.5.29
Autorun / Installation
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Maintainers of this version:
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Description
All releases (1.000-1.006).
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)

What works

Campaign works if you manage to press the faction button when starting a new campaign. There are few remedies to that but easiest is to load a save file.

Skirmish works without problems, except for score screen after game is over. Nothing game breaking, it's just inconvenient.

Network works if you force wine to use a special wsock32.dll. You might have to manually add serial code to registry if the game refuses to connect with error about serial#. Try either of these (I don't remember which one is correct or do they both work):

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Westwood\Red Alert 2]
"Serial"="getyourowndamnserialkey"

or

[HKEY_LOCAL_USER\SOFTWARE\Westwood\Red Alert 2]
"Serial"="theserialistwelvenumberslong"


What does not

Highlighting buttons when choosing campaign doesn't work but if game looses focus, button becomes highlighted if mouse is over it.

Skirmish's score screen doesn't respond. Either it takes long time for it to react to pressing the close button or the mouse highlighting doesn't work.


What was not tested
Internet play wasn't tested because it requires external account called XWIS.


Additional Comments

Can't install because game keeps nagging about install CD not being in the drive. Maybe some Disc Drive emulation fixes this.
But in the meantime to install this game you need to use windows in one way or another (Dual-boot, Virtual drive) and copy installed files to a new wine virtual drive.
Test Results
DistributionTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?RatingSubmitter
CurrentUbuntu 12.10 "Quantal" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)May 01 20131.5.29 No, but has workaround Yes Silver Max 
ShowGentoo Linux AMD64Oct 19 20121.5.15 Yes Yes Gold Manuel 
ShowMac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard"Jul 22 20121.5.9 No Not installable Garbage an anonymous user 
ShowArch Linux x86_64Jun 14 20121.5.6 No Not installable Garbage LunaVorax 
ShowMac OS X 10.7 "Lion"Mar 25 20121.5.0 Yes Yes Garbage an anonymous user 

Known bugs
Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
27414 Red Alert 2 "skirmish aftermath": user needs to "Alt+Tab" for the game to react UNCONFIRMED View
30155 SafeDisc v2.05.030 fails due to driver dispatch routine status and irp.IoStatus.u.Status differing (Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2) NEW View

 
Performance issues
The game is much slower than it should be, but it may still run at a good speed depending on your computer.

 
Note
HOWTO

-- UPDATE --

Speed Fix

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\game.exe\Direct3D]
"DirectDrawRenderer"="opengl"
"RenderTargetLockMode"="readtex"
  1. Create a new file, ra2fix.reg, somewhere in your Wine C: directory.
  2. Open the file, paste the content above into it, and save.
  3. run wine regedit and choose Registry->Import Registry File
  4. Import ra2fix.reg
  5. close regedit

If the game does not run correctly after these changes, remove them.

 

Add the following lines to ra2.ini:

[Video]
VideoBackBuffer=no

If the game does not run correctly after these changes,remove them.

Network Play

IPX is tricky, and is fortunately no longer needed. Someone has written a patch to use TCP/IP instead.
  1. Download the LAN patch from understorm.net
  2. Save it in your Red Alert 2 folder and extract it.
  3. Open winecfg or Wine->Configure Wine from the application menu.
  4. Add an overwrite rule for wsock32.

 

The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.

Unofficial RA 2 patch
by Thom W. on Saturday December 8th 2012, 7:05
Find the unofficial 1.007 patch here: blackassassins.org/pisc/readme.htm

The 1.006 patch can be found here: commandandconquer.filefront.com/file/Red_Alert_2_Official_Patch_16_English;17958

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Solves NETWORK play entirely!!!
by DiGMi on Thursday August 23rd 2012, 19:45
You can find information here:
www.digmi.org/2012/08/24/playing-red-alert-2-with-network-using-wine/

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The game freezes on gaining battle control
by Kazeev Nikita on Sunday March 25th 2012, 4:06
I've installed ra2 into a clean prefix, wine version 1.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~oneiric1.
Everything went smoothly, until I actually tried to play it. After gaining control any mouse move causes the game to freeze (music still playing) with the following console output:
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7deea1e0 "x11drv_main.c: X11DRV_CritSection" wait timed out in thread 0025, blocked by 0032, retrying (60 sec)

I've tried schedtool, as google suggested:
schedtool -a 0 -e wine Ra2.exe
but the results are the same.

Thank you for your help.

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