[Nix]

Ok, I got a serious question for you guys on this.  Specifically, CnC Gold '95, tiberium dawn, the first one.  GDI Commando map.  Has pretty much anyone had this problem, where you move the commando close to the top edge of the map, to where his radius of sight touches the top edge of the map, then the game crashes?  Has anyone NOT experienced this on Windows XP?  Anyone have any ideas on if there is a fix for this or not?  I've looked on EA's forums and it's all over the place, people are really complaining about it, and EA as usual, is doing nothing or responding to people in the forums about it. 

[CP5670]

Are you talking about GDI mission 6, where you get only the commando and a transport copter? I have never run into any such problem and I've played that mission several times. IIRC you have to go near the top to blow up the airfield, which is your "secret" objective.

[Vagabond]

My opinion of the games....

C&C: Tiberium Dawn: 9/10 (Utter brilliance)
Red Alert: 9/10 (Never forgot the feeling I had when I was grenading poor civilians for fun)
Tiberian Sun: 7/10 (Didn't match the hype, but it well paced with an interesting storyline)
Red Alert 2: 5/10 (Lacks atmosphere. The expansion pack felt like a long running joke missing a punchline. Mind control just turns me off as well)
Renegade: 6/10 (A stable game engine marred by the worst AI I seen in any first person shooter. One time I saw a mammoth tank, shooting a on a higher elevation. Then two chinooks decided to drop troopers just above it's cannons. Then the tank shot, and blasted about twenty soldiers. That made me laugh)
C&C: General (Never touched it. I believe that the game went too far away from it's roots. I used to view Command and Conquer as a series for those who want action, not reasource management nor any roleplaying)

[Nix]

Are you talking about GDI mission 6, where you get only the commando and a transport copter? I have never run into any such problem and I've played that mission several times. IIRC you have to go near the top to blow up the airfield, which is your "secret" objective.

Correct.  The problem is that the Airfield is so high up on the map, once the commando's line-of-sight radius touches the top edge of the map, the whole game crashes, hard.  You CAN progress by blowing up the hand of nod, but then you gotta replay the mission again, this time building a base and blowing it to hell.  It's actually annoying though cause if you go too high up on the map, the game crashes.  It's one of those wierd XP-related bugs, it probably doesn't do it under Windows 98, but I could be mistaken.  I think it's also a problem with any unit up in a corner of a map.  Like I said, it's all over EA's forums, and it's a pretty well-known bug (at least over there).  I doubt it'll ever get fixed either.  Perhaps it's a problem with TFD's build.  I never had this problem either when I was playing it back on Win98, and especially not in DOS. 

[CP5670]

I played through C&C on XP about a year ago and never had this problem (I have the Win98 compatibility mode selected). It may be something specific to this new release, as I have the original Gold/win95 version.

[Sandwich]

Try perhaps playing it in windowed mode (if that's even possible).

[Nix]

I have the Gold version too, installed that and tried it, somehow it works fine.  Looks like something happened in this build. though I cannot imagine why...  yet another piece of proof that anything EA gets thier damn hands on goes to ****.

[Nico]

Woooh, I come around to get a look at how HLP is doing, and what do I see? A C&C thread! ABout TS, it was mediocre at best, but, BUT, you should really try firestorm, it's really good actually, it's how TS should have been.

[Sandwich]

Venom!!!!!!!!!!! Where'ya been, bro???

[Unknown Target]

On ModdB they have Tiberiun Sun and Red Alert mods for Renegade; both have progressed pretty far internally, and are looking great.