Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 Forum

I tried with all 3 bottles, I inserted the CD, the autorun came up, I clicked Install, it went away, then crossover said it had completed the installation. Which is a bit wierd seeing as usually, you have to go through that whole installation thing, and enter the passkey. I can't find the application.

try renaming the install.exe file and running the installer outside of the crossover installer.

can you be more specific on what you mean by that?

Ok there is an alterative method if the installer wont run...
Copy all of the files from the Allied CD that are located in the Install directory on that cd to the Westwood/Red Alert 2 directory in your crossover bottle's C drive.
create a text file and copy and paste this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Westwood\Red Alert 2]
\"Name\"=\"Red Alert 2\"
\"InstallPath\"=\"$WINEINS\\\RA2.EXE\"
\"FolderPath\"=\""
\"SKU\"=dword:00021002"
\"Version\"=dword:00010000"
\"Serial\"=\"\"

save the file as redalert2.reg
open regedit in the bottle of crossover you copied the game to and import the registry key.

The game requires a crack to be playable for more than 30 seconds (copy protection is not supported in Crossover), information about this was taken from the Wine Appdb for Red Alert 2

The copy protection in Red Alert 2 is very special, as it will blow
up all your units after 30 seconds. This can be avoided by doing the
following.

Update the game to the latest version (if you want to)
Make a folder called 'backup' in your RA2 directory and move
'Ra2.exe' and 'Game.exe' to it
Download this crack and place the 'game.exe' it contains in the RA2
directory
(http://www.megagames.com/cgi/download/download.cgi?action=search&category=cracks&search=REDALERT2.ZIP)

Download this crack and place the 'ra2.exe' found in the 'crack'
subfolder of 'ra2_allied_crk.zip' in your RA2 directory
(http://www.megagames.com/cgi/download/download.cgi?action=search&category=cracks&search=RA2_CRK.ZIP)

If you only intend to use the Allies CD, symlink the mix files from
the CD root (run the following command while in your RA2 directory:
'ln -s /mnt/cdrom/.mix .', substitute /mnt/cdrom with your CD
mountpoint). Otherwise, copy all the mix files from your Allies CD
root to your RA2 directory, and then insert the Soviet CD and
symlink ('ln -s /mnt/cdrom/02.mix .') or copy maps02.mix and
movies02.mix from it
You can find more cracks here if you want to experiment on your own.
(http://www.megagames.com/cracks/html/c33335_0.htm)

I cannot seem to get this game to run. I followed the instructions in the last post in this thread, but it claims it cannot initialize ra2.csf, whatever that is. Any ideas what might be causing this little problem?

yalborap wrote:

I cannot seem to get this game to run. I followed the instructions
in the last post in this thread, but it claims it cannot initialize
ra2.csf, whatever that is. Any ideas what might be causing this
little problem?

yea sorry when looking at it again the registry entries were mistyped, i fixed what i noticed was wrong. Give it a try now.

I get the same issue as yalborap. Using Crossover Games Mac. I can't find the file ra2.csf anywhere anyway....

Edit: Works. Had extract contents of Game1.CAB on the Allied disk then upgrade to 1.006 and it worked fine. Used registry entries as specified above.

Videos run fine, but actual game runs very slowly - half speed maybe?

Thanks :)

when i go to instal the game it does one of two things: brings up installer then i click install and it goes away. or the installer comes up, i click install and it hear my computer hard at work. Then it says reload debugger again.