svmariscal: Hey, did anyone visit the site lately? I can't find the link to the original C&C and there's an ominous "buy it here!" sign instead.

svmariscal: Hey, did anyone visit the site lately? I can't find the link to the original C&C and there's an ominous "buy it here!" sign instead.

Fuzzyfireball: You are right, how interesting. Didn't some new C&C news leak out? Maybe it has to do with that?

Navagon: Maybe it's just proving difficult to charge people for the new C&C games when better C&C games are available for free?

hedwards: I got C&C3 RA and Tiberium wars a while back, and they really aren't better in any significant way than the ones that are already free. They're a fun play, but they aren't really fun enough to pay for unless you've already grown bored of the old ones.

Navagon: To be honest RA 3 onwards hasn't interested me enough to try them out. So I can't comment on anything more than what I've consistently been told by everyone who has. Red Alert was a little bit tongue in cheek, sure. But RA3 looks like it's trying to beat gamers over the head with a pantomime stick. The graphics are also too cartoony.

In short EA just doesn't seem to understand the series at all.

korell: Well, nearly the right way. True, it is just an archive containing the files, with a registry file to run if you want to be able to take it online. However, you HAVE to extract the files to a specific location, you cannot just choose where you want to extract it to.

It has to be in the below location:

C:\Program Files\EA Games\Command & Conquer The First Decade

I tried using it from C:\Games and it just wouldn't load up, kept giving an error message, but as soon as I put it here, where they say to extract it to, it works. So, some part of it must be hard-coded to read from that path.

korell: Do you mean symbolic linking? I have read very little on it and what I have read hasn't really given me any real reason to use it.

korell: Do you mean symbolic linking? I have read very little on it and what I have read hasn't really given me any real reason to use it.

Possibly my understanding of Vista's symlinks isn't right, but what I read was that it effectively just creates a new folder that points to the files of another folder (so the files exist once but show up in two different folders).

So, for this C&C Tib Sun example, you'd still have to extract the files into the Program Files folder, but a symlink could allow those same files to be accessed via another folder such as C:\Games\C&C Tib Sun\ and this is why I question the usage of symlinks - what advantage do you get over a shortcut to the folder containing the files? And if anything, a shortcut simply has to be deleted, and being a visible item it is there to remind you. However, a symlink appears to be a property attached to a folder, so you need to remember to remove the symlink before you uninstall and delete the folders.

However, as I said, my knowledge of these symlinks is very little so I may be missing something.

Miaghstir: You can install the game to "C:\Games\C&C Tib Sun" because that folder isn't protected by UAC, make a symlink at "C:\Program FIles\C&C Tib Sun" because the game expects to be found there - now the game can write to its folder (savegames, for example) because it isn't protected, and it works because its files can be found where it expects them.
ave to remember making the symlink as I install the game... again)