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OpenRA is a Libre/Free Real Time Strategy game engine supporting early
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Westwood games like Command & Conquer and Command & Conquer: Red Alert.
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Distributed mods include a reimagining and updating of both the Red
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Alert and Command & Conquer multiplayer games.
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You may run the game from desktop games menu or just manually
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run the game with `mono OpenRA.Game.exe Game.Mods=ra` for Red Alert
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or `mono OpenRA.Game.exe Game.Mods=cnc` for Command & Conquer.
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If you have problems starting the game consider switching to
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alternative Cg Renderer. You may run the game with alternative
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Cg Graphics Renderer from desktop games menu or by adding
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`Graphics.Renderer=Cg` parameter explicitly to above console commands
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(convenient for some integrated graphics cards).
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To run explicitly with a default one use `Graphics.Renderer=Gl`
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parameter. The default Graphics Renderer is a better one, so
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don't forget to upgrade your graphics hardware drivers to the
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latest version. For Cg renderer also try to upgrade nvidia-cg-toolkit
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too.
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The RA packages will need to be extracted to ~/.openra/Content/ra/
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before the RA mod will actually work. The C&C packages will need
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to be extracted to ~/.openra/Contet/cnc/ for C&C mod. You may
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execute OpenRA and it will suggest to download content from original
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CD or a minimal one from OpenRA site automatically. You may also try
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to download minimal content pack from OpenRA site manually by using
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OpenRA Utility:
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cd /usr/share/games/openra
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mono OpenRA.Utility.exe --download-url=http://open-ra.org/get-dependency.php?file=ra-packages,/tmp/ra-packages.zip
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mono OpenRA.Utility.exe --extract-zip=/tmp/ra-packages.zip,~/.openra/Content/ra/
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The same commands for C&C mod:
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mono OpenRA.Utility.exe --download-url=http://open-ra.org/get-dependency.php?file=cnc-packages,/tmp/cnc-packages.zip
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mono OpenRA.Utility.exe --extract-zip=/tmp/cnc-packages.zip,~/.openra/Content/cnc/
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But the better choice is to download a full pack from original game CD
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(or iso). However, full CD pack usage result in slower game start from
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OpenRA Lobby. It happens due to a lot of unnecessary things like video
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clips were pre-packaged in it. If you want optimal game start and all
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music themes (made by Frank Klepacki) from classic CD you should
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download them from OpenRA Forum:
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http://www.sleipnirstuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=15063
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The minimal required files for the Red Alert mod are:
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EITHER:
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* conquer.mix
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* temperat.mix
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* interior.mix
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* snow.mix
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* sounds.mix
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* allies.mix
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* russian.mix
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OR: (Usually pretty long game start)
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* main.mix
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AND:
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* redalert.mix
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The minimal required files for the Command and Conquer mod are:
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* cclocal.mix
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* speech.mix
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* conquer.mix
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* sounds.mix
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* tempicnh.mix
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* temperat.mix
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* winter.mix
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* desert.mix
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If you have a case-sensitive filesystem you must change the filenames to
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lower case.
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Red Alert and C&C have been released by EA Games as freeware. They could be
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downloaded from http://www.commandandconquer.com/classic
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Unfortunately the installer is 16-bit and so won’t run on 64-bit operating
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systems. This can be worked around by using the Red Alert Setup Manager
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(http://ra.afraid.org/html/downloads/utilities-3.html).
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Make sure you apply the no-CD protection fix so all the files needed
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are installed to the hard drive.
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If your notebook doesn't show long battery life under OpenRA load you can
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do several things:
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1. Turn off "Show Shellmap" item under General tab of Settings menu.
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2. Edit ~/.openra/settings.yaml in the "Graphics:" section to add
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framelimiter. Add "CapFramerate: True" string there to enable framelimiter.
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The default setting is 60 frames per second. You can change it's value by
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adding "MaxFramerate: 70", for example, string in that section. Be careful
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with special tab symbols at the beginning of the strings. Don't forget to
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backup your settings file.
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Please note: OpenRA has 2 types of released versions:
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1. Release Versions or just Versions.
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2. Unstable Playtests Versions or just Playtests.
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Release Versions are considered as more stable ones. Playtests are also
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pretty stable in most cases but they have usually more features wich are
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needed to be tested before inclusion into release. So, if you have any
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problems, please report them to the IRC channel #openra on irc.freenode.net
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(Use http://webchat.freenode.net/ if you don't have IRC client)
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or to the bug-tracker (http://bugs.open-ra.org).
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You may also see servers list with
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http://master.open-ra.org/list.php
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or by using orabot on IRC channel:
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]games (or !games)
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to see the games wich are waiting to start or
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]games --all
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to see all games.
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Please read HACKING for an overview of the engine and read OpenRA Wiki
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page for more info about the game and it's development:
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https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/wiki
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