Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun

What works

Campaign, skirmishes and LAN games (with workaround)

What does not

Workarounds

What was not tested

Video cutscenes and online play

 The installer found here: http://cnc-comm.com/community/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=41

 Allows several installation options, one being avoid downloading videos. I had to do this because my internet connection at home is very slow 

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

To enable the LAN patch to work there are two things needed: - DLL override of wsock32.dll - After DLL override, in the game menu go to options - network and change socket number to 1000 or any other high value - For more info see: http://www.digmi.org/2012/08/24/playing-red-alert-2-with-network-using-wine/

• Run 'wine regedit', browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine. If there is no key (the stuff with folder icons) called AppDefaults, then create it
• Right-click on that key and create a new key game.exe
• Create a new subkey Direct3D. In that key create two string variables:
  DirectDrawRenderer with value opengl
  RenderTargetLockMode with value readtex
  

• Press cancel when the installer wants to update system files
  
• To avoid copy protection issues (in my experience it did not work even on Windows 98SE, just 95), upgrade to the latest version
  
• If you are not using the opengl mode as described above, after saving a game, the menu becomes invisible, but it appears for a second or so first, so it is easy to find the resume mission button. the menu appears again if you ALT+TAB out of the game and back
• In order to play network games, IPX will have to be enabled in the kernel, and you need some userspace utilities, usually called ipx-utils; and IPX must be started (there should be an initscript). Also note that Tiberian Sun's network support is only available when it is run as root