Command And Conquer Red Alert 2 On Windows 10

  



Command & Conquer Red Alert 1

Windows

Windows 8, 8.1, and 10 require additional steps to get C&C: Red Alert 2 and Yuri’s Revenge running. The latest procedure involves simply installing the latest version of the CnCNet YR client which will even patch the regular Red Alert 2 and Yuri’s Revenge gameplay even if you are not using the client itself. Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3. Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 100% Implemented Mac OS X wrapper. 100% Implemented Debian Package for Linux Mint and Ubuntu. 100% Implemented RPM Package for Fedora and openSUSE. Without a doubt, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 does everything that Tiberian Sun should have, but didn’t. It shines, it sparkles, it destroys even the toughest of stains. With vastly improved graphics, enhanced gameplay, and a far easier interface, Red Alert 2 is definitely the most advanced Command & Conquer title ever produced.

You all know this wonderful successor of Command & Conquer. Perhaps you can get your Red Alert CDs running with DOSBox or Windows 95 in a virtual environment. However, Red Alert has been released as freeware in 2008, so the community has built a wonderful installer that should work on the latest versions of Windows, including Windows 10. Whether you own an original copy, or you have a downloaded ISO somewhere, or you don't have the game at all, the installer is prepared for all these situations. Here we go:

How do I download and install Red Alert 1?

  • Go to cncnet.org and download the Red Alert installer
    • For online play only, press the 'download and play online' button
    • For the single player campaign, scroll down and click the 'view all downloads' button and choose 'Full game (windows)' from the pull down menu
  • Run the installer
  • To find out which parts to install or download, press the Help button
  • When the game is installed, take a minute to read the FAQ
  • When done, press the Finish button

Installing Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge on Windows 10 (Origin) 1. Install Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge from Origin. Games are included in C&C Ultimate Collection. With the same multiplayer capabilities as Red Alert 2, all that Yuri's Revenge does for you is to add a third combatant, Yuri's Forces, and a few extra units for the Allies and the Soviets. Always an unfortunate element of Westwood's Command & Conquer games, the graphics in Red Alert 2 are very similar.

How do I run and configure Red Alert 1?

  • Double click the desktop icon to run the game, or double click the RA95Launcher.exe file in the Red Alert installation folder
  • Press the settings button and check whether the video settings are ok:
    • Adjust the resolution
    • To run in a window, check the 'Run in windowed mode' checkbox
  • Start playing!

As a kid you played Red Alert 2 all the time on your WinXP, why wouldn’t you it’s a helluva fun game! But now almost 20 years later you can’t get the game to run on your Windows 10 machine. So How to play Red Alert 2 on your Windows 10?

Do I need to own a legitimate copy of Red Alert 2?

To play it legally? Yes, you will need to buy Red Alert 2 because it wasn’t made free yet by EA who owns the brand. Where can you buy the game? To my knowledge the only way to buy Red Alert 2 is on origin where you buy the Command & Conquer™ The Ultimate Collection. The bad news is that it’s a collection so you can’t buy just Red Alert 2, but you’ll get all of the C&C games and their expansions. The good news is that 15€ for 17 C&C games isn’t that bad of a deal. Now If you want to download an Illegal copy, that’s your choice but you’re not getting instructions on how to do that here. Arr!

After purchasing the copy simply install it.

I have old Red Alert 2 CDs, will those work?

Sadly those CDs won’t work on Windows 10. It has something to do with the installer being incompatible with Windows 10. But there is a workaround. We can work the problem by using the multiplayer-only release by XWIS (which was created under EA’s permission) and copy the the necessary files for single player from the CDs.

First go this page and download and install XWIS’ Red Alert 2 multiplayer distribution. Then go to your Red Alert 2 Allied CD and copy multi.mix, theme.mix, maps01.mix, and movies01.mix to your Red Alert 2 directory. And then from the Soviet CD copy maps02.mix and movies02.mix to the same directory. You might need to set the game.exe and ra2.exe to always run as administrator and in compatibility mode for Windows 7 or higher.

Yuri’s Revenge installer works just fine. Therefore you shouldn’t have any problems there. But if your CD is too damaged you can find the multiplayer Yuri’s Revenge distribution here.

Command And Conquer Red Alert 2 On Windows 10 64-bit

Okay, I’ve installed Red Alert 2 and it doesn’t work! How to play Red Alert 2 on Windows 10?

Now that we’ve installed the game we need to patch it up. The easiest way to do that is to download the CnCnet client from here. It says Yuri’s Revenge on the download site. But don’t worry if you don’t own it. The CnCnet client also patches vanilla Red Alert 2. So download the installation file and follow the installation instructions. It’s pretty easy as the installer detects the folder you’ve installed Red Alert 2 so you should be able to install it no trouble. After installing the client should start up, so just let it do so and install any updates it might prompt you to install.

Command And Conquer Red Alert 2 On Windows 10 Pro

Ready to play commander?

If everything went smoothly you should be able to enjoy Red Alert 2 on Windows 10! And remember the client does not only patch the game itself, but it also provides the means to play online.