Help with C&C First decade using xp in virtual box

[Ash3r100]

Hi, ive been wanting to play the old c&c games on my MBP for ages and decided the best way to do it was to get first decade and run xp. im using virtual box because its free and i don't have to reboot. but i installed FD and it seems fine untill i run the games and i get various error messages

For RA1 i get "Error - unable to allocate primary video buffer"

For C&C i just get a blank error box

TS asks me to insert the correct CD (which is in the machine)

RA2 runs and i get sound but no video

Quite frankly i think it was pointless buying this game!

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks very much

Asher

 

[Durandal02]

Did you install the bootcamp drivers from your operating system disc that came with your mbp? The cd check might be a problem from running the game in a virtual machine; I've tried to install oblivion on a VM and securom gave me an error.

 

[AdamR01]

Did you install the latest official patch (1.02) from EA? Or, even better install the unofficial 1.03 patch from here: http://www.cncsector.net/cnp/tfd

This should fix most if not all of the issues you are having.

 

[Ash3r100]

Thanks, i'll try both of these when ive got the time off work to try it.

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