My C&C3 experience

[Dale M. White]

Finally got around to grabbing C&C3 and installing it under Vista 64bit. Ran
into a little issue that's kinda funny.

First I installed it under the True Admin account, but when I went to run
the game I got this error message
http://images1.filecloud.com/407563/CnC3_error.jpg

Which I found funny. But just to be sure, I ran Supreme Commander (another
game for Windows game), Stalker and HL2. All where happy. Just for giggles,
I re-applied the Feb 2006 DX runtime update. No difference

So I booted under Vista32, loaded the game and it worked fine.

Booted back under Vista64, it's pointed to the same install location as the
Vista32 and it still reported no DX9.0. I logged out and on to a standard
user account (with UAC enabled), Reinstalled again, same error.

Fortunately , there is already 3 patches out, So I applied patch 1.03 and it
then started fine under Vista 64. The patches don't mention anything about
this bug, but everyone seems to have undocumented fixes these ays. I played
through the first mission and the performance was fine, though the cut scene
videos seem a little choppy in the sound department.

 

[Razzle Fratz]

If you read the system requirements for C&C3 you should see they specify
Vista 32 bit for it to run.

 

[Dale M. White]

Yes, I read the System requirements. I noted the experience I had and how it
was fixed. It plays just fine under Vista 64, once you get past that one
little error. I can live with the "isn't official supported" aspect, though
they do have a thread in the forums that address running under Vista 64.

Stalker (and a slew of other new games) doesn't mention any Vista support
and that doesn't stop me\us from trying to play them under Vista64.

 

[Razzle Fratz]

Oh, it would never stop me either! But it WOULD limit my complaining if it
failed.

 

[Dale M. White]

Well, I didn't think I was actually complaining, Just reporting my
experience and the fix.