Installing Red Alert on Windows Xp professional edition

[Procyon]

When I try to install a error appear:

It says that RA is for Windows 95 only.

[Andrew]

I had this problem, and what you do is go to the file that installs it (ra.exe?) and change the compatability mode to windows 95 and it should work.

[Procyon]

I installed it, but now I can`t run it. I also changed the compatibility mode of the .exe of the game. A error message appear saying something about the kernel.dll

[Gobalopper]

Did you patch it? WW might have fixed something in a later patch that allows it to run.

[Atomic Mitten]

Look for the Kernel.dll in C windows system or system32, if you find it in either folder, copy it to the other system folder.

IE if it'S in system 32 then copy it to system.

[Procyon]

Thats the real solution or just you think it? I don`t want to make something wrong.

[Nyarlathotep]

What Atomics suggests, only makes a copy, it doesn't move it from one to another. The original file will stay on it's original location (if you choose copy that is)..

[Kiyouta]

Gob is right, you need to get the 1.08 patch. I had the same problem with kernel.dll until I updated the game. Now it works perfectly, and I don't even think you need to run it with a compatibility mode. The patch does it all!

Westwood's support site is, well, not very supportive atm, but their FTP site is still up:

ftp://ftp.westwood.com/pub/redalert/updates/RA108USP.EXE

Save RA108USP.EXE to the same folder where you installed red alert and run it. It should have extracted PATCH.EXE. Run this, and your game will be updated.

[Procyon]

I installed the path, but it still not work.

It says something like that it cant find the start point of SMapLS_IP_EBP_12 in KERNEL32.dll

[Kiyouta]

try running it in the Windows NT 4 SP5 compatibility mode

[rigel6669]

When I try to install a error appear:

It says that RA is for Windows 95 only.

I guess that i was lucky when i have bought the c&c combat pack for only 30 euro.

All 5 c&c games work for windows 98/ME/XP/2000

[Procyon]

I changed the compatiblty mode to NT 4 SP 5, but iot still don`t work.

[gryphon]

can this be of any help to you ?

[Procyon]

Thanks to gryphon, now this problem is solved 8)

How can I change the resolution?

[gryphon]

It has been a while sinds I have played just Red Alert [ mostly Red Alert 2 Yuri's revenge lately ]. . . Thought that with TS it wasn't possible to change your resolution. ...

[Procyon]

There are black horizontal stripes in the movies.

[Kiyouta]

This is normal. The movies were originally meant to be played on the old DOS 320x200 screen, but the Windows 95 version runs at 640x400, thats why you see black lines. Every other line is missed out so that the movie stays the same size.

[Andrew]

I thought RA had two resolutions.

One was 640*320 and the other 600*300 maybe?

or maybe I am just thinking of the dos monitor screen having less hieght than normal.

[Procyon]

Ok, now that I changed the resolution the game looks better.

This topic can be closed now. THX

[gryphon]

does RA1 have the option to adjust the resolution itself ?

[Andrew]

I did not think it did.

But I remember some game I played alot back in the day did, and it might have been an rts.

[Procyon]

It has 640 X 400 and 640 X 480.

640 X 480 is the best one.