Command And Conquer For Windows 10

[Tyler Bannowsky]

CommandConquer Ultimate Edition - Origin Download. Not working for Windows 10. I have just bought these games via Origin but none will play for a variety of error messages - most of which quote the display or video mode or Direct X.

@PabloEsss You are talking about a pack of games developed over a period of 17 years, the oldest of which is about 22 years old now. They were all developed for completely different computers, and thus they all have very different problems. In other words, I'm going to need more details. Which games exactly have you tried, which ones didn't work, and what problems/errors did you encounter with each one?

Though, before that, you might want to get some preliminary patching done. 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. For Red Alert 2 there's a more general patch that solves a lot of its graphics problems. You can find them here:

Command and Conquer Ultimate was working OK in Windows 8.1 however, the moment I upgraded to Windows 10, the game does not load. Correction, I can hear the game music in the background but no video, only black screen of death (BSOD). This is a display issue related to Windows 10 being incompatible with Intel HD Graphics 4600 (and other cards). This was a 'known problem' by Microsoft, but no warning was given to users. Unless there is a miracle work around, I will be forced to dump Windows 10 and roll back to Windows 8.1, or stop using Command and Conquer Ultimate Collection.

Uh, I'm 100% sure the patch I linked to solves the "unable to set video mode" error. In fact, if it still doesn't work, you can either change the game resolution to one supported by your monitor, or run the game in windowed mode. You can change the settings through the CCConfig tool in the game folder.

Sorry, however, it is a 4 year topic but is still current. I down loaded 5 command and conquer games on my new computer with windows 10 and none would play without DirectX9. I could not download DirectX9 on my windows 10. To state I am frustrated would be mild.

The PATH environment variable lists all the locations that Windows (and cmd.exe) will check when given the name of a command, e.g. "python" (it also uses the PATHEXT variable for a list of executable file extensions to try). The first executable file it finds on the PATH with that name is the one it starts.

Note that after changing this variable, there is no need to restart Windows, but only new instances of cmd.exe will have the updated PATH. You can type set PATH at the command prompt to see what the current value is.

It has taken me some effort looking for answers here, on the web, and and in the Python documentation, and testing on my own, to finally get my Python scripts working smoothly on my Windows machines (WinXP and Win7). So, I just blogged about it and am pasting that below in case it's useful to others. Sorry it's long, and feel free to improve it; I'm no expert.

[UPDATE: Python 3.3 now includes the Python Launcher for Windows, which allows you to type py (rather than python) to invoke the default interpreter, or py -2, py -3, py -2.7, etc. It also supports shebang lines, allowing the script itself to specify. For versions prior to 3.3, the launcher is available as a separate download. ]

Maybe you're creating your own Python scripts, or maybe someone has given you one for doing something with your data files. Say you've acquired a Python script and have saved it to "D:\my scripts\ApplyRE.py". You want to run it conveniently by either double-clicking it or typing it into the command line from any location, with the option of passing parameters to it like this (-o means "overwrite the output file if it already exists"):

Say you also have a data file, "C:\some files\some lexicon.txt". The simplest option is to move the file or the script so they're in the same location, but that can get messy, so let's assume that they'll stay separate.

Verify that double-clicking on ApplyRE.py runs it. (It should also have a Python logo as its icon and be labeled "Python File", by the way.) If this isn't already done, right-click on a .py file, choose Open With, Choose Program, and check "Always use..." This association improves convenience but isn't strictly necessary--you can specify "python" every time you want to run a script, like this:

But that's a pain. Fortunately, once Python is installed, in the PATH, and associated with .py, then double-clicking a .py file or directly typing it as a command should work fine. Here, we seem to be running the script directly--it's nice and simple to run it on a sample file that's located in the "my scripts" folder along with the script.

To further reduce typing, you can tell Windows that .py (and perhaps .pyc files) are executable. To do this, right-click Computer and choose Properties, Advanced, Environment Variables, System Variables. Append ";.PY;.PYC" (without quotes) to the existing PATHEXT variable, or else create it if you're certan it doesn't exist yet. Close and reopen the command prompt. You should now be able to omit the .py (FYI, doing so would cause ApplyRE.exe or ApplyRE.bat to run instead, if one existed).

If you're going to use your scripts often from the command prompt (it's less important if doing so via using BAT files), then you'll want to add your scripts' folder to the system PATH. (Next to PATHEXT you should see a PATH variable; append ";D:\my scripts" to it, without quotes.) This way you can run a script from some other location against the files in current location, like this:

If .py is associated with an installed Python, you can just double-click ApplyRE.py to run it, but the console may appear and disappear too quickly to read its output (or failure!). And to pass parameters, you'd need to first do one of the following.(a) Right-click and create a shortcut. Right-click the shortcut to edit properties and append parameters to Target.(b) Create a batch file--a plain text file with a distinct name such as ApplyRErun.bat. This option is probably better because you can ask it to pause so you can see the output. Here is a sample BAT file's contents, written to be located and run from c:\some files .

This usually isn't necessary, but one other environment variable that may be relevant is PYTHONPATH. If we were to append d:\my scripts to that variable, then other Python scripts in other locations could make use of those via import statements.

I also found the same problem even though i've added the path in the environment variable. Finally, I put my "C:\Python27" in the FRONT part of the "PATH" in environment variable and after restarting the cmd, it works!!! I hope this can help.

If the option was not checked, then please use Set Path in cmd to see if it is available as executables or not. If not, Navigate to Start >> Control Panel >> System and Security >> System >> Advanced System Settings >> Advanced >> Environment Variables.. >> Select PATH from System Variables and Edit it. Then copy "C:\Python35\cmd" in the new line. After this please add .PY to PATHEXT in the same procedure.

Goto the Start MenuRight Click "Computer"Select "Properties"A dialog should pop up with a link on the left called "Advanced system settings". Click it.In the System Properties dialog, click the button called "Environment Variables".In the Environment Variables dialog look for "Path" under the System Variables window.Add ";C:\Python27" to the end of it. The semicolon is the path separator on windows.Click Ok and close the dialogs.Now open up a new command prompt and type "python"

Go to the path where python is installed (type in python to start menu and open file location). On the address toolbar, type in the version of the Python - for me it's Python 3.10 (64-bit) and press enter. The command prompt will open up with the exact path where python is saved, so that the code will work. Same principle if you have installed Jupyter Notebook on your drive. Go to the folder where Jupyter is saved and type in Jupyter Notebook on the address bar and press enter. Easier than changing system paths..

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