Red Alert 2 including the new "Decade" DVD

Posted: 09-04-2006, 05:39 PM

Kimco Tech

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One of the old games that I still play a lot to relax simply will not work on
my Vista Beta. I even went and got the new DVD thinking perhaps it would work
there, but no joy. The only on that runs is "Generals" and "Generals Zero
Hour". I have read somewhere that some people were able to make it work out
of the box so I am not sure if perhaps the video driver or what is the hang
up. If I force it to run it says ***FATAL*** String manager failed to
initalize properly. I went to the program and added Windows XP SP2
compatability but still no joy. The recommendation is to go to "Westwoods"
website but of course all it says there is it is known not to run. As
evidenced by the recent release of Command and Conquer Decade, there are an
awful lot of us out there still playing what I think is one of the best war
strategy games around (RA2). Generals is lame when it comes to strategy. So,
has anyone really made this work? I sure hope I don't become one of those
peeps that keeps an old operating system in order to make a program usable
like I know of a couple die hard Windows 98 geeks. Translated, I hope
Microsoft fixes this incompatability issue at least with the compatability
wizard. (which I am not sure I ever found to work on any program I've used it
on

. )
--
Kimco Tech

Responses to "Red Alert 2 including the new "Decade" DVD"

andshrew

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RE: Red Alert 2 including the new "Decade" DVD

Posted: 09-10-2006, 10:40 PM

Hi Kimco,

I gave the First Decade an go the other day in RC1 and Red Alert 1 and Red
Alert 2 both ran for me the same as they do in XP, the only thing missing is
RA2's multiplayer as theres no IPX support at the moment.
All I did was set the First Decade launcher in SP2 compatability mode then
ran the games through that.
I'm using a 6600gt graphics card and an XP3200 processor using the latest
nvidia drivers off their site - I didn't try running it with the built in
drivers.

Andrew

"Kimco Tech" wrote:

> One of the old games that I still play a lot to relax simply will not work on
> my Vista Beta. I even went and got the new DVD thinking perhaps it would work
> there, but no joy. The only on that runs is "Generals" and "Generals Zero
> Hour". I have read somewhere that some people were able to make it work out
> of the box so I am not sure if perhaps the video driver or what is the hang
> up. If I force it to run it says ***FATAL*** String manager failed to
> initalize properly. I went to the program and added Windows XP SP2
> compatability but still no joy. The recommendation is to go to "Westwoods"
> website but of course all it says there is it is known not to run. As
> evidenced by the recent release of Command and Conquer Decade, there are an
> awful lot of us out there still playing what I think is one of the best war
> strategy games around (RA2). Generals is lame when it comes to strategy. So,
> has anyone really made this work? I sure hope I don't become one of those
> peeps that keeps an old operating system in order to make a program usable
> like I know of a couple die hard Windows 98 geeks. Translated, I hope
> Microsoft fixes this incompatability issue at least with the compatability
> wizard. (which I am not sure I ever found to work on any program I've used it
> on . )
> --
> Kimco Tech

Mark

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RE: Red Alert 2 including the new "Decade" DVD

Posted: 10-07-2006, 01:49 PM

Hi, Kimco

You can do it just right click on the file "ra2.exe" and select "Run as
administrator", enjoy it. You need to do this just for once, it will work
properly after that.

But multiplayer will still not supported because no IPX support in Vista.

"Kimco Tech" wrote:

> One of the old games that I still play a lot to relax simply will not work on
> my Vista Beta. I even went and got the new DVD thinking perhaps it would work
> there, but no joy. The only on that runs is "Generals" and "Generals Zero
> Hour". I have read somewhere that some people were able to make it work out
> of the box so I am not sure if perhaps the video driver or what is the hang
> up. If I force it to run it says ***FATAL*** String manager failed to
> initalize properly. I went to the program and added Windows XP SP2
> compatability but still no joy. The recommendation is to go to "Westwoods"
> website but of course all it says there is it is known not to run. As
> evidenced by the recent release of Command and Conquer Decade, there are an
> awful lot of us out there still playing what I think is one of the best war
> strategy games around (RA2). Generals is lame when it comes to strategy. So,
> has anyone really made this work? I sure hope I don't become one of those
> peeps that keeps an old operating system in order to make a program usable
> like I know of a couple die hard Windows 98 geeks. Translated, I hope
> Microsoft fixes this incompatability issue at least with the compatability
> wizard. (which I am not sure I ever found to work on any program I've used it
> on . )
> --
> Kimco Tech

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