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14-06-2006 09:08 PM
Japo You've got to cheat the game into believing that the CD is in. Depending on the files you've got, either mount a CD image in the new fashion, or use some crack like FAKECD in the old one.
14-06-2006 08:45 PM
chainsoar Yeah, I'd love to buy it. Only I'm poor. I downloaded it 'cause I'm poor. Cheers anyway guys.
14-06-2006 04:12 PM
Moonstrider You could buy Command & Conquer, The First Decade.
It's a pack with ALL the current C&C Games including expansions and Renegade up to C&C Generals. Everything works fine in WinXP.
14-06-2006 03:42 PM
The Fifth Horseman You are running a downloaded version and CD protection has initiated. Simple as that.
14-06-2006 03:09 PM
Elon Yariv I have the disks of red alert1 and it runs perfectly on XP proffesinal to me... maybe it's because I'm running it on an old computer.
14-06-2006 02:46 PM
Lucullus
QUOTE(chainsoar @ Jun 14 2006, 06:34 AM) [snapback]236574[/snapback]
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OK, here's what I did - I downloaded it, unpacked it and tried to install it. It gave me an error message about the wrong version of windows so I changed the compatibility mode. Now I get a message saying "unable to locate necessary files. Please run setup.exe from the CD-Rom disc" whenever I run setup.exe. Please help me.
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It's a bit difficult to figure out what can be wrong without the files. Please PM me the link where you got it from and also tell me whether you got the iso or a cracked version. I also seem to recall that Red Alert came with 2 discs as all other C&C games.
I've run C&C on XP with no problems, so might be able to help you with Red Alert... had it a while ago and it ran under XP with no problems as well.
13-06-2006 11:34 PM
chainsoar OK, here's what I did - I downloaded it, unpacked it and tried to install it. It gave me an error message about the wrong version of windows so I changed the compatibility mode. Now I get a message saying "unable to locate necessary files. Please run setup.exe from the CD-Rom disc" whenever I run setup.exe. Please help me.
13-06-2006 11:29 PM
Eagle of Fire Please tell us what you tryied already. You need to help us help you.
13-06-2006 11:21 PM
chainsoar ARGH. I just HAD to run my stupid mouth, didn't I (or keyboard..whatever). I'm having a frickin' 'MARE trying to install this damn game. I've tried the XP fix instructions I got with it, I've tried numerous solutions all over the net and none of them work. I can't even get the setup program working! Someone help me for the love of christ

EDIT : OK, I'm getting closer! The only problem I'm getting now is when I run the setup it says "unable to locate necessary files. Please run setup.exe from the CD-Rom disc". Ideas? PLEASE?
13-06-2006 10:57 PM
Eagle of Fire C&C is a DOS game, so you need either to use the Win95 compatibility mode (I remember there is an icon for Win95, so it should be compatible with a little luck) or play the game in plain DOS using a Bootdisk or DOSBox. If you are lucky, maybe using VDMSound could be enough if the problem only originate from the soundcard.
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