Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2

All releases (1.000-1.006).

Application Details:

Version:	1.00x
License:	Retail
URL:	http://www.westwood.com
Votes:	8
Latest Rating:	Garbage
Latest Wine Version Tested:	4.0-rc6

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Ken Sharp

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Test Results

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Selected Test Results

What works

Installing on Windows, applying Groza's No CD patch and playing a skirmish without units blowing up in 30 seconds.

Game is a lot slower (without any speedfix) than on Windows, but is playable (I haven't tried the speedfix which must make it comfortable to play).

What does not

Installing, even with ra2inst script (Woldata.key and Conquer.dat are two required files the installer creates).

Workarounds

What was not tested

Network play, campaign

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU:
Driver:

Additional Comments

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa	Jan 15 2019	4.0-rc6	No	Not installable	No	Garbage	sb9x
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Jul 03 2016	1.9.13	Yes	Yes		Bronze	Gert van den Berg
Show	Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jun 17 2016	1.9.12-staging	No	Not installable		Garbage	Ken Sharp
Show	Mageia 5	Jun 08 2016	1.9.9	Yes	Yes		Silver	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	May 05 2015	1.6.2	Yes	Yes		Silver	hirschi

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

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"

Create a new file, ra2fix.reg, somewhere in your Wine C: directory.
Open the file, paste the content above into it, and save.
run wine regedit and choose Registry->Import Registry File
Import ra2fix.reg
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.

Download the LAN patch from understorm.net
Save it in your Red Alert 2 folder and extract it.
Open winecfg or Wine->Configure Wine from the application menu.
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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