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Fix for TD and RA Problems Comment!
Sunday, February 19, 2006, 14:30 | Dario
Fix for TD and RA Problems For those of you experiencing numerous problems with The First Decade's version of Tiberian Dawn (C&C) and Red Alert, Nyerguds of C&C Meets Star Wars has posted what appears to be a working fix. Just follow these steps, and you shouldn't be having problems such as mission 6 crash in TD, Covert Ops music/videos not working, RA movies not working...
Various TD Problems
1. Move scores.mix from the covert folder to the main folder, overwriting the (inferior) scores.mix in the main folder.
2. Rename the movies.mix in the covert folder to scovmovs.mix and move it into the main folder.
3. Rename the general.mix in the covert folder to scgen.mix, and move it into the main folder.
4. Seeing as there are no files of any importance left in the covert folder, simply remove it. No, this won't cause ANY problems at all, I tested it
* Delete logo.vqa and logo.vqp to get a much cooler intro animation.
* Apply Windows 95 compatibility mode to preview.exe to watch the cool Lands of Lore and Blade Runner trailers
* If you want to make your own shortcut to C&C95.exe, make sure to open the shortcut's properties and add ' -cd.' (without the quotes) behind everything on the Target line. Don't forget the dot behind '-cd', it's crucial.
RA Movies Problem
1. Use XCC Mixer to open main.mix and extract movies2.mix in your RA folder.
2. Rename the extracted movies2.mix to scsovmov.mix.
That's all? Yes, that's all. Really. Do this and you WILL see the Soviet movies again.
You may want to use XCC Mixer to delete movies2.mix from main.mix and save some 400 MB disk space, but that's entirely your own choice.
Possible side effect is a slightly longer loading time when the game launches. This is because the game has to scan scsovmov.mix for usable files. Both C&C1 and RA1 scan all mixfiles starting with 'sc' for usable files, and gives them the utmost priority. C&C1 and RA1 modding is based on this principle.
If you're having mouse lag in TD or RA, try reading this topic. And just a reminder to everyone that EA is aware of these problems and is working on a patch (according to the C&C community manager Aaron Kaufman). There are a couple of community-made patches as well; for example, Nyergud's RA 3.03 patch allows you to launch online games through an in-game WOL interface. The guys at Time of War have made a registry fix that allows you to play certain mods (such as Renegade Alert) in The First Decade. But do note that these are unofficial and there is no warranty that they will work.