Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge wont install on Windows 10

by cameron205
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Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge wont install on Windows 10

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I've got my old disc copies of RA2 and YR and have tried installing them on my recently upgraded Windows 10 computer. However when I try running the setup.exe file on the disc it brings to a black screen and the pops up "DirectX Error: Action not supported." twice and the the program closes. Does anybody know what might be wrong because I've looked everywhere and have found nothing helpful regarding my issue. Thanks.

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Re: Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge wont install on Windows 10

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Hero

You need to install the DirectX Redistributables package from June 2010. The newer DirectX is not completely backwards compatible; it's missing features from the older versions, so you need to install the older version to fix it.

 


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It's asking for a location for me to extract the files. Where should this be?

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Hero
 
  • Download the DirectX Redistributables package from June 2010. Be sure to uncheck any other junk they want to add to it. It should be a file called "directx_Jun2010_redist.exe".
  • Run the downloaded file. It'll ask for a folder to unpack in. Make a new folder somewhere on your disk and unpack it there. It doesn't matter where you unpack it; it can be deleted afterwards anyway.
  • Go to the folder where you told it to extract.
  • Find "DXSETUP.exe", and run that to install the missing components.
  • After the installation finished, delete the folder you unpacked everything in.

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Still gets the same error, not exactly sure what the case is now considering the older files seem to  have been successful installed.

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