Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn

What works

Everything I tested. Some minor redraw issues and sound glitches in the menu. You have to run it under Win98 mode (since the game runs only on win95 or win98)

What does not

Installing and running from mounted iso

Workarounds

What was not tested

LAN, Multiplayer, CHAT

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Issues: 1.) If you have a multicore CPU you have to run C&C with schedtools otherwise it becomes unstable: schedtool -a 0x2 -e wine "C&C95" 2.) You have to burn it onto a CD because installer and program cant see the mounted iso. If these tweaks were not needed it would be platinum.

Replace 'THIPX32.DLL' in the game directory by running CnCNet's launcher one time to get fully working LAN and internet.

To get around most of the bugs listed, check out: http://hifi.iki.fi/cnc-ddraw/

Also remember to add ddraw to dll overrides to get it loading, virtual desktop also recommended.

It is highly recommended you install Nyerguds' v1.06c version that includes bug fixes, new features, cnc-ddraw and CnCNet:

http://nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com/cnc95upd/cc95p106/

Regardless what version you install, remember to add ddraw to dll overrides as it will improve rendering performance a lot if ddraw.dll is included or installed by hand.

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.

 

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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