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What works
Disk burning
Installation, following instructions in the download (set to Win95 in winecfg)
Patching, following instructions in the download
Game play, in a window, from within the folder:
cd `winepath c:/westwood`
wine explorer /desktop=ra,1024x768 ra95
What does not
Running from mounted iso without additional d:: device link
Fullscreen won't work well, or at all without Modes in xorg.conf
Video corruption with DirectDrawRender opengl in regedit
Do not install Directx! Don't do it. It's not needed anyway.
Basically anything other than "default", "normal", "new"or "fresh" wine
What was not tested
Fullscreen mode should be possible if you add the modes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
What modes? Oh I dunno, in my case I have Twinview and dual monitors so mine would probably look like this after editing. Yours would of course be totally different:
Default, normal, new, fresh wine. (rm -rf ~/.wine)
Follow the instructions for XP.
The instructions come bundled with the download.
The instructions are in .rft format.
You can open .rtf documents with openoffice.
nVidia classic AGP 6800 video card, with proprietary drivers
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.
Another way to workaround this is to use a tool named schedtool to set the affinity of the wine process to one CPU only.
schedtool -a 0x1 -e wine RA95.exe
HOWTO
If setup complains about a wrong Windows version, start winecfg and set the global version to Windows 98, then change it back after the install.
Set the Windows version for 'ra95.exe' (can be done with winecfg) to win98 or update to the latest version.
Replace 'WSOCK32.DLL' in the game directory by running CnCNet's launcher one time to get fully working LAN and internet. Add wsock32 to dll overrides for it to take effect.
Also remember to add ddraw to dll overrides to get it loading, virtual desktop also recommended.
Recommended version of Red Alert is latest 3.03p to play network
games. It has many bug fixes (including online crashes) and new
features. The latest community supported version is packaged as PortableRA by Iran and is available from http://iran.cnc-comm.com/ra/.
Troubleshooting
If the installer can't find your installation files check that you have the CD-ROM drive set up correctly under winecfg and add this symlink:
Couple of additional workarounds; THIPX16.DLL and err:winediag:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo errors
by Loïc Minier on Friday March 19th 2010, 13:59
Hey
(Pay attention to the workarounds at the top of the howto! I needed them to get RA95.exe from www.commandandconquer.com/classic/ to run!)
I got this issue as well:
% wine C:/GAMES/REDALERT/RA95.EXE
ad 'THIPX16.DLL', error 2
err:module:attach_process_dlls "thipx32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\GAMES\\REDALERT\
\RA95.EXE" failed, status c0000142
Then I've hit:
fixme:dsalsa:IDsDriverBufferImpl_SetVolumePan (0x159db8,0x159d00): stub
err:winediag:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Direct rendering is disabled, most lik
ely your OpenGL drivers haven't been installed correctly
X Error of failed request: GLXBadDrawable
Major opcode of failed request: 153 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
Serial number of failed request: 424
Current serial number in output stream: 424
which is due to running Compiz; I ran "metacity --replace" and then I could run RA95.EXE just fine.
Since 1.1.39 a regression occurs. Any Ideas
by Adrian on Sunday February 21st 2010, 14:31
At Game start with 1.1.38 all works.
At Game start with 1.1.39:
Could not load 'USER.DLL' required by 'thipx16', error=2
err:thunk:_loadthunk (THIPX16.DLL, Thipx_ThunkData16, THIPX32.DLL): Unable to load 'THIPX16.DLL', error 2
err:module:attach_process_dlls "thipx32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\WESTWOOD\\REDALERT\\RA95.exe" failed, status c0000142
UDP Patch
by Evan Goers on Friday April 3rd 2009, 20:44
The UDP patch does not seem to work for me. I unzipped it(thipx32.dll) into ~/.wine/drive_c/Westwood/REDALERT(where I installed Red Alert to) and the it still drops back to the main menu when I click "Network" in the Multiplayer menu.
RE: UDP Patch by Susie R on
Monday May 18th 2009, 21:31
Works Perfectly!!!!!! Thankyou!!!!!!
by John Cant on Monday November 17th 2008, 7:21
It works perfectly! I had to burn it to a cd though, it wouldn't play when I mounted the iso with loop no matter what I tried. It works better than it did on real windows 95 or 98! It wont work on XP without a patch and I doubt very much that it works on Vista!!!!!!! Wine WINS!!!!!!!! Thankyou!!!!!!
Doesn't start
by Olli on Monday October 13th 2008, 11:54
Doesn't start at all
err:thunk:_loadthunk (THIPX16.DLL, Thipx_ThunkData16, THIPX32.DLL): Unable to load 'THIPX16.DLL', error 2
err:module:attach_process_dlls "thipx32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\WESTWOOD\\REDALERT\\RA95.EXE" failed, status c0000142
internet game ?
by wojtek on Sunday September 21st 2008, 11:32
Have you successfully tried to play over Internet with WCHAT.EXE ? I tried few times but there is always the same problem. Game starts and it says "Connecting..." and nothing more happening :/ It doesn't hang so I think there's a problem with connection. I tried as a normal user and as a root :( Any one knows what may be the problem ???
Windows 5.0 is currently running.
by Giepi on Thursday September 4th 2008, 9:20
Hi,
I am trying to install the free Soviet Version of this game.
I set SETUP.EXE and a RA95.EXE via winecfg in the iso mounted to win95, but it still says:
"Windows 5.0 is currently running.This version of Red Alert is a Windows 95 only product"
Wine 1.1.3 - Setup.exe: Unable to locate necessary files.
by Rüdiger on Tuesday September 2nd 2008, 10:22
Hello,
I run Ubuntu 8.04 and I'm using wine 1.1.3 from www.winehq.org/site/download-deb (the problem also happens with wine 1.0 from the official Ubuntu reps).
I downloaded Red Alert from the EA-Homepages ( www.ea.com/redalert/ this is supposed to be the full version. It is an ad for RA3). I mounted the ISO of the Soviet CD via a loop device into /media/cdrom0.
~/.wine/dosdevices/d: is a link to /media/cdrom0 and I used winecfg to explicitly set it to Type CD-ROM Device. I also set the Windows-Version to Windows 95 (similar results for Windows 98).
When I run setup.exe via wine 'd:\setup.exe' the Setup loads but stops with a Dialog displaying the following error message:
"Unable to locate necessary files. Please run Setup.exe from the CD-ROM disc."
I saw several people with similar problems but there was no solution (at least non that worked for me).
Red Alert v3.03 Multiplayer
by David Drahos on Tuesday September 2nd 2008, 6:17
When I click multiplayer -> internet I am prompted with a messege telling me that my Windows install is out of date or I need internet explorer 4 or greater installed. Shouldn't gecko take care of this, I've gotten this to work before?
map editor: can't do 8bit color
by Grant on Friday August 15th 2008, 0:18
Hey.
I've got Aftermath working great (thanks for the howto), using a modified Wine 1.1.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64. However, I can't find anyone else mention the map editor, and I can't get it working. Best I can tell, the error stems from my display's inability to change to 8-bit color, though I don't understand much of the error, so I could be wrong. This is what I get when I run schedtool -a 0x2 -e wine ~/.wine/drive_c/WESTWOOD/REDALERT/edwin.exe :
fixme:powrprof:DllMain (0x7e700000, 1, (nil)) not fully implemented
fixme:ntdll:NtPowerInformation Unimplemented NtPowerInformation action: 16
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_FillGLCaps OpenGL implementation supports 32 vertex samplers and 32 total samplers
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_FillGLCaps Expected vertex samplers + MAX_TEXTURES(=8) > combined_samplers
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f31c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 8
fixme:d3d_surface:IWineD3DBaseSurfaceImpl_Blt Can't handle WINEDDBLT_ASYNC flag right now.
fixme:ntdll:NtPowerInformation Unimplemented NtPowerInformation action: 16
fixme:ntdll:NtPowerInformation Unimplemented NtPowerInformation action: 16
fixme:ntdll:NtPowerInformation Unimplemented NtPowerInformation action: 16
fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L".NET Runtime Optimization Service"): stub
fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x00000457,(nil),0x0001,0x00000000,0x7e5d5254,(nil)): stub
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L".NET Runtime Optimization Service (clr_optimization_v2.0.50727_32) - Service reached limit of transient errors. Will shut down. Last error returned from Service Manager: 0x80070005.\n"
There are a couple of threads in Ubuntuforums archives for different games. I already had visual effects disabled (compositing disabled via xorg.conf); I don't want to try other versions of Wine (this was compiled with patches to get C&C3 and Office07 working on 64-bit architecture); and editing xorg.conf to have a second SubSection for "display" with "depth 8" produced the same exact error message.
Aftermath and Counterstrike
by David Drahos on Sunday June 8th 2008, 13:14
I'm having some issues installing Counterstrike and Aftermath. I have red alert installed successfully. I have both Counterstrike and aftermath ISO's mounted correctly. But when the installer gets to the actual installing the installer sits and is stuck at "Please wait. Installation may take a few minutes..."
Anyone know a fix?
How Do I get the Mouse and Mutliplayer working
by D.J. Mac Farlane on Saturday May 3rd 2008, 0:50
I would like to confirm that my Red Alert menus and mouse also Flicker in WINE. The mouse also disappears often, especially in the menus. I am using WINE 0.9.58 RPM Running Fedora 8 (i386), a GeForce 4 Ti 4200 with kmod-nvidia-96xx drivers, Athlon XP 1500+, and 512 MB RAM. Any help to stop the mouse from disappearing would greatly be appreciated.
Also, how do I use the ipxutils. Is there a graphical frontend for the ipxutils? Also, is there a way to Tunnel IPX through the TCP/IP protocol similar to what DOSBox does? Any help getting the multiplayer going would be great. I have several PCs I intend to network Red Alert with.
Working
by Talas on Thursday April 10th 2008, 13:25
I'm running 'The First Decade' Red Alert on 3.03 (nyerguds TFD patch).
OS: OpenSuse 10.3 32-bit KDE 3.5
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 (dual core)
Command line to game: taskset 1 nice -n 19 wine RA95.exe
with work path set to RA's directory.
Things that work for me:
Scrolling when windowed (disable borders of the wine window in kde and set resolution to 640x480)
Skirmish
Allies campaign (only tested level 1-3 so far)
Soviet campaign (only tested level 1-5 so far)
Things that doesn't work:
No sound when starting new missions (entering the menus helps)
Cursor sometimes disappear in menus (no workarounds)
Tesla is a little slow
'Full screen (8-bit resolution doesn't work with current ATI driver)
black screen
by Fred Eisbaer on Saturday April 5th 2008, 21:41
hi all. after some annoying problems I installed RA successfully with cd2. however, now starting ra95.exe I get nothing except a black screen.. no sound, no mouse, nothing. The only way to get out is ALT-TAB and ALT+F4 to kill the terminal. The endresult is a horrible resolution (640x400?) and some personal frustration :)
Am I the only one with this error? What can I do about it?
Thanks for any help. Fred
RE: black screen by felipe1982 on
Friday September 5th 2008, 16:17
RE: black screen by Quentin Grimaud on
Saturday December 12th 2009, 18:59
RE: black screen by Quentin Grimaud on
Saturday December 12th 2009, 19:52
"could not locate setup.exe"
by Stephen on Wednesday December 19th 2007, 12:13
When I run the autorun.exe and hit install, I get an error saying that setup.exe could not be found. I browsed and found the file, but it has the icon of a plain text document even though it is a .exe. I right clicked on it and told it to run with wine, but no luck. I also can not simply run that .exe, nothing will open if I do. Any ideas? Thanks!
Installation Issues
by scguy318 on Tuesday July 17th 2007, 2:12
Judging from AppDb reports for RA, the installation and play should be a breeze. However, with latest Wine, 0.9.41, Setup fails with "Setup is unable to locate necessary files". What's the story here?
Keyboard doesn't work
by Hersch on Wednesday May 9th 2007, 23:38
Hi, I can't use my keyboard when I play C&C in Fullscreen. I can use it if I change the settings to a window game. The problem there is that scrolling is very difficult. Has anyone knowledge with this kind of problem? Thx
What do i do after i run the set up?
by Garrettt on Saturday April 14th 2007, 21:31
I have run the set up and installed the "westwood" folder and what not but now when i go to run the "RUNGAME.EXE" it literally just sits there and it never pops up, am i not supposed to do that? or maybe i have more installation, if some one could please help me it would me most appreciated. Thanks for your time.
Got it working reasonably ok, on dual core CPU
by Wiebe Cazemier on Tuesday January 2nd 2007, 13:52
I got it working reasonably OK, on my dual core machine. What I needed to do was:
- Apply the palleted texture patch to wine and set RA to use it, to improve drawing 2D graphics. You can find more info on this in the appdb entry for Starcraft [1], as the opengl drawmode was originally intended for that. This patch is going to be part of the official wine, as I understand.
- I need to make sure that wine runs on one of the cores of my CPU. "taskset 1 wine ra95", as was mentioned above, is not enough. When I do that, the game keeps hanging intermittently. When I first do "taskset 1 nice -n 19 " (forcing that task on one core) and then start ra95, it seems to work ok. I don't know why the latter works and the former doesn't. Perhaps the prevents the CPU from slowing down it's clock. Unreal Tournament [99|2003|2004] also needs that, otherwise they go beserk.
- disable desktop double buffering. Seems to improve speed and prevents the cursor from disappearing.
