Red alert 2 error

[samwise188 0]

Hi i have been running red alert 2 online on my computer with windows xp for a while but recently everytime i played a game it crashes with a error box saying setup.exe has an error

 

so i reinstalled it but it says the same error and in the technical report it says that this file ac4a_appcompat.txt was included in the error in the temp folder.

 

I have already tried restarting the computer in safe mode which someone else told me to do but it didnt work so plz help i have been trying for ages

 

[samwise188 0]

oh and i also thought i would say that i have been playing a demo the other day and the same error happened for that and said the same thing about that file in the temp folder

 

but i aint no computer god so plz help

 

[samwise188 0]

come on it has been ages please someone can help me

[Destruk 0]

Originally posted by samwise188:

Quote:

come on it has been ages please someone can help me

 

What does EA say about it? I wasn't aware Red Alert 2 online still existed.

[Wilhelmus 1]

Do you run the game in compatiblity mode?

[samwise188 0]

yes i have but cheers anyway i have spent all night on it and got it working using windows safe mode to install it

 

thanx for your help anyway

[merlinxwiz 0]

I saw alot of posts on this site an many other sites trying to figure out how to make

Red Alert 2 work on Windows XP, and I spent hours trying to make mine work.

I figured it out by accident!

Try this and tell me if it works for you, and if it does work for you, please share it on other message boards as well, I'm trying to tell everyone I can.

 

Heres what I did:

1) Right click on the cd rom drive that the disk is in, then open the cd rom directory.

2) Right click on setup icon and autoplay icon and set the compatibility to windows 95.

3) Double click on setup icon and click on everything to install.

4) When it's done installing, tell it to go to windows, and not to run the game other wise it will try to run and then crash!

5) Right click on the RA2 desktop icon and set the compatibility to Windows 95.

6) Now here's the accident I found....Right click on the RA2 desktop icon again, and click on RUN AS, now uncheck the thing that says protect my computer and data..

Tell me if its works for you!

It did for me.

Mark