C&C: The first Decade crack search

[kosmiq]

Will see if I can get some updated cracks that fits for the actual versions of the game in the TFD pack.

About the bad crack thingie, afaik it happens in Red Alert 2 that the units exlpode after 30secs of playing.

I will also see if I can find that 1.001 cracked Yuri.exe, I know I still have it around here somewhere.

I am also about to start play the games SP from start to beginning (C&C and onwards). I will not be able to play through RA2+Yuri though as something is seriously wrong with them for me.
RA2 starts but the game stops everytime it needs to load a sound. Lets say I create a standard G.I. in the first mission as allies. Well everytime one gets 'built' the game stops, loads the sound (takes 1-3secs) and then says 'unit finished' or whatever it says. Totally breaks the fun for me. Yuri's revenge fails to start. It always hangs up at the loading screen when started
Happens after reinstall, original DVD used, cracks applied and so on.
All other games works fine though.

Still gotta check about Generals 1.8 though and see if the originally released Generals gets updated to safedisc 4.60 or not after that patch. If not we might be able to use some public unwrapper there..

Edit: GJ on the crack pack atleast, a very good start.

[BarryB]

kosmiq, not sure if you can get any updated cracks (bar for Generals v1.8)! As AFAIK only the GAME.DAT file is updated in Generals/Zero Hour and GAMEMD file for Yuri, none of them update the actual EXE you run the games with!

I downloaded and extracted the RTP file for latest patches for Generals v1.8 and Zero hour 1.04 and none of them had references to GENERALS.EXE in the RTP, same for Yuri 1.001 no reference to Yuri.exe. So that's why I used the original v1.0 cracks as only the GAME.DAT/GAMEMD.DAT files are updated and needed cracking in the patches. I think I gathered all the 'proper' cracks for the games and they just need playtesting

Not had any slowdowns in RA2, loaded the first Allied mission and got Tanya to Fort Bradley, built a barracks and trained 5 G.I's with no sound problem! You must have something else in your rig causing that problem?

[kosmiq]

Oh ok, didn't knew about the .exe itself not being updated!

Yeah the RA2 issue gotta be something. Not sure what tbh as all other games works just fine. Heck I run BF2 at 1600x1200 with highest settings and 2xAA.

[noscript]

short note: Disable Antivir while playing Generals. Otherwise you will have a heavy load in the beginning.

[OliverMaltby]

BarryB, I've replaced the original .exe's with the no-cd ones in your "bundle". So far they seem to work, I've tested each game and they work perfectly fine. If there "is" a problem then its not in any of the early levels of each respective game.

Thanks again!

[BarryB]

Thanks for the report Oli, hope they stay working The more people play deeper into the games the better.

[kosmiq]

I can atleast report that C&C works fine, even though it needs no crack it works... :P

Just found out a rather dissapointing thing in the former westwood forums...
http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread....D=46487#400512
That is how EA "fixed" XP support for the games...


And I am sad to report that in RA1 the movies does not play as supposed. When playing as Soviet it is the wrong movies
Found a fix for that though, not as good as you would want it to be but atleast it works.
http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread....5qTCmb3owAAKDw

About the "lag" issues I have in RA2, it is a problem that more people have and in case anyone else has it too it can be read about here:
http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread....art=0&tstart=0