Help with RA and C&C Gold Installation

[pistolandrapier]

I'm getting two different error messages when trying to play these games

When I double click the C&C Win95 Icon I get the error message

"Error - Unable to allocate primary video buffer - aborting."

When I double click the RA Win95 Icon I get the message

"The procedure entry point SMapLS_IP_EBP_12 could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll."

In both cases I followed the installation tutorial and everything seemed to work ok.

Both exe files are running in compatibility mode.

I've also installed the latest patch for both games, again following the instructions with no apparent problems.

I'm using WinXP SP3

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Jonny

[Tore]

For the C&C95 issue make sure you got the latest drivers for your graphics card and the latest DirectX installed.

For your Red Alert issue; download and extract this archive into your Red Alert directory (overwrite the old files).

[Nyerguds]

Odd. On RA1, Win95 compat mode and patch 1.08 are enough to fix that specific issue... you must've some SOMETHING wrong there...

but yeah, install the 3.03 patch :P

[pistolandrapier]

Installed 3.03 patch but now getting the same buffer allocation error for both RA and Gold/TD. The good folks at windows update tell me that all my drivers and software are up to date. Is there anything else I could try?

[Tore]

If I remember correctly Windows Update doesn't update DirectX

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/e...D-85FC422D1388

[killa57]

When I double click the RA Win95 Icon I get the message

"The procedure entry point SMapLS_IP_EBP_12 could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll."


you need the recent thipx32.dll for red alert

[Nyerguds]

You're kinda bumping old threads for no reason. The 3.03 patch fixes this too, and RA 3.03 doesn't use the thipx32.dll file anymore. Besides, if you're talking about WW's original fix, that dll was never for RA anyway, and just patching the game to 1.08 and then running it in Win95 compat mode even fixed that problem (WITHOUT removing LAN, I might add)

[rootbear75]

I get an

Error: Unable to set video mode.

All drivers are updated. I've done everything above.

Now if i run the ra.exe, it works, except i have no sound.... (DOS version i think)

[Nyerguds]

run rasetup.exe, set the resolution to 640x480.

[rootbear75]

did that, still the same error.