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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2

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Application Details:

Version: 1.00x
License: Retail
URL: http://www.westwood.com
Votes: 9
Latest Rating: Bronze
Latest Wine Version Tested: 1.9.13

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Test Results

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

What works

Install (Origin version)

Menu 

Starting a skirmish

Most of playing a skirmish 

What does not

Display got stuck in skirmish, stopped updating

Workarounds

What was not tested

Speed tweaks mentioned in HOWTO

Multiplayer (needs UDP patch)

Campaign

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU:
  • Driver:

Additional Comments

Registry tweaks might get it playable...

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?		RatingSubmitter
CurrentArch Linux x86_64Jul 03 20161.9.13Yes Yes BronzeGert van den Berg 
ShowUbuntu 14.04 "Trusty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jun 17 20161.9.12-stagingNo Not installable GarbageKen Sharp 
ShowMageia 5Jun 08 20161.9.9Yes Yes Silveran anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)May 05 20151.6.2Yes Yes Silverhirschi 
ShowMac OS X 10.9 "Mavericks"Jun 25 20141.6.2No, but has workaround Yes Silveran anonymous user 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
29700 C&C Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 game graphics rendering freezes when NOT moving the mouse. NEW 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
31279 Age of Empires II SafeDisc v1.x driver crashes in IDT check (INT1/3 hooks) RESOLVED NOTOURBUG View
33211 C&C: Red Alert 2 still runs very slowly and mouse cursor flickers UNCONFIRMED View
37991 C&C Red Alert 2 - Scrolling the map area with arrow keys is sluggish UNCONFIRMED View

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HowTo / Notes

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.

Comments

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game freeze on load - possible solution
by hirschi on Sunday May 3rd 2015, 6:58
In case the game freezes about 1sec after loading/starting a mission (skirmish/campaign),
you may want to look at Bug33211 (see above),
in particular Post 11 (by meindertjan 2014-09-16).

Worked for me.
Wine doesn't shut down properly when exiting the game but whatever.

(dll-override--> "winecfg")

(Wine 1.6.2, Ubuntu 14.04LTS, ATI Radeon HD7730)
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