The website is kind of vague on what it does besides restoring multiplayer and adding anti-cheat, but I heard it does a lot to make it work better on modern OSes too.
GenTool seems to be the main patch for Generals these days. It should automatically take care of the "black screen" issue, and has a configuration tool that allows further tweaking of the game's settings. Even if you're not interested in online play, it comes with a bunch of automatic fixes. I advise installing the CnCNet online play installer for RA2/YR. Unpack in the game folder, run "patch_main.bat", let it finish, and then delete the files you extracted.) Nyerguds' main.mix cleanup for TFD/TUC (Not really needed, but cleans up about a gigabyte of unnecessary files in the RA1 folder. Funkyfr3sh's automatic Red Alert 1 patcher/installer (The thread also has briefing videos for the expansion missions, converted from the Playstation version of the game).
HD music pack, with stereo music for the game. Note that this patch fixes two quite common and completely fatal game crashes ( top-of-map reconnaissance crash, stealth crash), so installing it is strongly advised. Nyerguds' C&C95 v1.06c revision 3 patch (which also adds bonus missions originally exclusive to the Playstation and Nintendo 64 versions of the game). The very oldest games, namely Command & Conquer 1, Red Alert 1 and Tiberian Sun have all been upgraded with community-created unofficial patches that fix a lot of their bugs and compatibility problems, and Red Alert 2 uses more or less the same game engine as Tiberian Sun, so a lot of the tech support for that is similar to TS.īut besides those, there are a couple more fixes out there. Generally, the games that will give the most problems are usually those in the middle of the series those that start using Windows features that have changed since then. With "older revisions" do you mean the original CD/DVD versions, or just the older games? Because C&C Generals is still about ten years away from the actual oldest games in the series, y'know. Besides that, you might need to find the game folders and tweak the compatibility modes on the games' executable files a bit to get them all working right.Ģ. That said, the pinned threads on top of the forum here do have a bunch of general advice to make the older games run better on newer systems. For all of the games, it's advised to disable the "Origin In Game" feature in the game's settings in the Origin client program the system simply doesn't work with any of the C&C games, and destabilizes a lot of them. I rather suspect most people who buy the bundle don't have too many problems. You have to realize this is a tech support forum only people with problems come here, which might give a slightly skewed perspective.