I'm losing hope for this game

[WanoToba]

I am an avid Red Alert fan since I was a kid. I had played Red Alert 2 and all that and it was the best game I've ever played on my childhood. I have Red Alert 3 now but I can't open it due to some dumb direct x thing I don't wanna deal with. I have downloaded a higher version of it and still nothing. I just want to play my childhood game . I have tried everything out there to play this game and I came on a conclusion that I have an Intel graphics card and not NVIDIA. Is there any chance I can play this game? I'm legit losing hope. If not, please just recommend any rts game that are just like this game, any comments would be deeply appreciated. Thanks and have a good day!

[Raptor]

I'm having the same issue; it freezes at the splash screen. All forums that I've read have suggestions that do not help:
- Compatibility settings in Windows 10
- Uninstall / re-install
- Installing Direct X 9
- Closing Steam first
- placing the .exe in a certain directory
- shutting down all Anti-Virus software
- closing ports on Firewall.
- setting resolution to 800x600
None of these solutions fix this.

I also have an Intel graphics card, and I've tried turning down all setting to their simplest settings to no avail.

Does anyone have a solution for running Red Alert 3 with an Intel graphics card?

[Medstar]

RA3 Quickloader to instantly launch the game without needing to connect to the Comrade News server (game launcher tries to connect to this, making the game hang in the background until the connection times out); this'll most likely help the "freeze at splash" error: https://www.gamereplays.org/community/Fix_Does_your_RA3_takes_too_long_to_startn_try_RA3_QuickLoader_-t1013524.html

DirectX 9.0c Redistributable for C&C; unzip and run DXSETUP.exe. This should fix the DirectX error: https://mega .nz/file/4UJDQQqT#YaE5cM7BUH5Cd1hzW23oThXKVHwZcIKbLzHXJ1766mg

It's the same as this, except it's unpacked from the exe extractor; I made the zip as to skip the initial extraction step which confuses most users: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109

Steam doesn't like MEGA links; just delete the space between the "a" and the "." if you choose to download the already-unpacked version.

[JustDoIt]

Hi,
as far as I know the Game doesnt support windows 64 bit version.
Fpr the case if you come to the game main menu sucessfully, dont set the max resolution. Try firstofall to start with the lowest resolution getting it peu a peu higher..

[Medstar]

Originally posted by JustDoIt:

Hi,
as far as I know the Game doesnt support windows 64 bit version.

Uh...yes it does. Most 32bit games (including this one) work on 64bit OS'es just fine--I should know, as I have Windows 64bit and can run this game no problem. It's just finniky to work with at times due to certain pieces of hardware (certain GPU's, for example).

Originally posted by JustDoIt:

Fpr the case if you come to the game main menu sucessfully, dont set the max resolution. Try firstofall to start with the lowest resolution getting it peu a peu higher..

I will agree with you on this; sometimes certain resolutions may cause graphical issues for some users. Turning the resolution down to one lower than your monitor's may help out a lot. That, or the OP may try running the game in windowed mode, since that tends to perform better than fullscreen. One can do this by adding the -win parameter in their command-line options.

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hang in there

[Andreas Mithridates]

there is a site for multiplayer, there are solutions for errors too. I had one and fixed. Ask google about ra3 multiplayer, and when your on website go to suport. And put down this mindset, keep playing the game, no reason to give up that easily

[Dizzy]

Strange. I have no compatibility issue with this game.

Currently using AMD 2600 on windows 10 x64. GTX 1060 and the game running on 4K perfectly fine.

Yeah, It had trouble on firing up, especially for the first time. at 800x600.
Changing the resolution might blackout the game, just kill it an re-run, apply a little higher resolution then, eventually it can run at 4k.

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same, running on 4k resolution as well, no problem. 2600x and rx 5700xt.