Red Alert 3 Will Not Launch on Win 10

[Oldmonkeysg]

I tried the Steam version, the Origin version as well as the Premier Edition DVD that I purchased years ago. Both the Steam version and the Origin versions showed my hard disk running -
I can see the power light flashing but nothing popped up - no sound, graphic or cutscene. The DVD version could launch, and the tutorial works, but after updating using the launcher, the game no longer works. I also tried downloading the v1.12 patch on a third party site for the DVD version but it does not help. The game appears to be not working but one of the executables appear to be running in the background on Task Manager. Between playing a completely unpatched game and not being able to play a fully patched game, I decided to put the game on hold until the community figures out how to help players get this game working again. My theory is that the patches must have changed something that made the game incompatible with Win 10 but I have no idea what it is. I have uninstalled the game for the time being. I really hope the community fixes this. I might instead see if anyone has uploaded videos of the cutscenes because I have never tried playing through the game to see the plot.

[Godrelik]

Well, most of users who play Red Alert 3 nowadays are using Windows 10 with current patch.
Have you tried reinstalling directX, that is common problem? Mind you, game takes quite a while to launch even on beefy computer.

[Oldmonkeysg]

How long are we looking at? Before I gave up on the DVD version I waited up to 15 minutes and the game has not launched. And reinstalling Direct X - is it the latest Direct X or do I have to rollback to an earlier version - wouldn't this exercise end up affecting my other games?

[Lanyi]

Try to disconnect Internet and then try again.

[Oldmonkeysg]

Which version did you play, the Steam version? And did disconnecting internet work for you? And do I have to do this everytime I play?

[Korpifox]

im getting this error : an error occurred while updating command and conquer red alert 3 (app running) it will stay the game is running fir about 30 seconds then nothing.

[vbex]

It magically started to work here after updating to the radeon 18.2.1 drivers. Confirmed for another user also.

[Oldmonkeysg]

It's got to be the later versions of our video card drivers conflicting with the updates of the game?

[GOTOPOST]

Originally posted by Oldmonkeysg:

I tried the Steam version, the Origin version as well as the Premier Edition DVD that I purchased years ago. Both the Steam version and the Origin versions showed my hard disk running -
I can see the power light flashing but nothing popped up - no sound, graphic or cutscene. The DVD version could launch, and the tutorial works, but after updating using the launcher, the game no longer works. I also tried downloading the v1.12 patch on a third party site for the DVD version but it does not help. The game appears to be not working but one of the executables appear to be running in the background on Task Manager. Between playing a completely unpatched game and not being able to play a fully patched game, I decided to put the game on hold until the community figures out how to help players get this game working again. My theory is that the patches must have changed something that made the game incompatible with Win 10 but I have no idea what it is. I have uninstalled the game for the time being. I really hope the community fixes this. I might instead see if anyone has uploaded videos of the cutscenes because I have never tried playing through the game to see the plot.

Buy the game on Origin, works perfectly fine there, just completed Red alert 1 2 and 3 on the Origin version with no problems at all.

[Oldmonkeysg]

I already have the Origin version. It does not work for me as well.

[GOTOPOST]

Originally posted by Oldmonkeysg:

I already have the Origin version. It does not work for me as well.

Are you using some special settings or something? Only time Ra2 didn't work for me was when i tried to mess with the resolution.

[Oldmonkeysg]

RA1 and RA2 works. Even RA3 Uprising, just not RA3.

[GOTOPOST]

Now that is strange, maybe try to reinstall it or something and make sure you delete the folder as well.

[Oldmonkeysg]

i have done that before. And for different versions of RA3. It just would not work.

[psychodad54 (cereal killer)]

Originally posted by Oldmonkeysg:

It's got to be the later versions of our video card drivers conflicting with the updates of the game?

yup

[RSM Taihou]

i have the same problem too , when i click start .. nothing happen. but 30 minutes later the game was open out of nowhere... and it happen everytime