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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: 8
Latest Rating: Silver
Latest Wine Version Tested: 9.7-staging

Maintainers: About Maintainership

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Test Results

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What works

- Installer

- Menus

- Single Player missions

- Intro and videos between missions

- Skirmish

- Saving / Loading game

What does not

I wasn't able to switch screen resolution from inside the game. It would try to switch but it would not resize properly and after waiting for 10 seconds or so, revert back to previous settings.

Workarounds

Manually edit the file: 

~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/EA Games/Command & Conquer The First Decade/Command & Conquer Red Alert(tm) II/RA2/ra2.ini

(Note: This path may be different, depending on your Linux distribution, or if you created a custom wine prefix)



In the [Video] section, look for these lines:

ScreenWidth=XXX

ScreenHeight=XXX

I set mine to Width = 1024, Height = 768.

What was not tested

Online multiplayer

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU: Nvidia
  • Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

Except for the workaround for the screen resolution, this game, including its installer, works perfectly out of the box, with clean wine install from Debian Buster official repo.

Note: I am installing from DVD, using the "The First Decade" release.

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?		RatingSubmitter
ShowmacOS 14 "Sonoma"Apr 25 20249.7-stagingYes Yes NoSilverYehia Hafez 
ShowArch Linux x86_64Mar 03 20238.2No, but has workaround Yes YesBronzeJzo4 
ShowFedora 35 x86_64Nov 18 20216.21-stagingYes Yes NoBronzeOrbit Li 
ShowPop!_OS 20.04 LTSAug 22 20216.0.1No, but has workaround Yes YesSilverMatt K 
ShowmacOS 10.14 "Mojave"Jun 15 20205.0.1Yes Yes YesGoldRichard Orilla 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
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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Unhandled page fault
by Orbit Li on Thursday November 18th 2021, 4:30
page fault randomly at address 00775AC6
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Black screen fix
by Eugene on Sunday October 11th 2020, 5:41
Running Manjaro 20.2,Wine-staging 5.17
Installed CD-ROM (pre-origin era) version of Red Alert 2 + Yuri's Revenge

As mentioned in the comments and how-to above, changed ddraw load order, downloaded and used ddwrapper, changed ra2.ini config, ran the program on exclusive 32-bit wine with Windows XP version. Still encountered the black screen bug or disappearing menus.

Finally downloaded launcher from cncnet.org/.
Ran it in the same 32-bit wine prefix that I installed the game into.
Pointed the directory of the game.
Launcher downloaded some files/fixes and installed into the directory.
[Note - requires winetricks (for noobs like me) to install microsoft XNA 4.0 framework, DirectX 9-11, dotNETFramework 4.5.]

Launched the newly available CnCNetYRLauncher.exe in the game directory from wine.
Everything worked as it should.
Tried campaign, single player skirmish with 4 other opponents. No slow-downs.

Hope this is helpful to someone
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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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