Thanks for the help. I did as instructed and copied the install folder from the original cd to my hard drive. I then patched the game, installed Arda, increased the resolution a bit and added TLF files as instructed in the Arda manual. So far everything is working fine, except the Counterstrike missions. Sometimes the game crashes when starting a new CS mission, sometimes it doesnt. Arda only displays an error message that says it has encountered an internal error. The crash keeps repeating itself, but I have found a way to get past it. I have made virtual images of my cds and mount them using a program called Alcohol 120%. It seems that once the crash has occurred, the only way to get rid of the repeating crashing is to mount another Red Alert disk (Allied, Soviet or Aftermath) and then launch the game. Then I just exit the game, mount the CS cd image and launch Arda again. By doing this, the CS missions work properly, but what really causes the crash in the first place is beyond me.
These are my log files:
debug.txt
except.20120616-030456.txt
syringe.txt
@Hippox77
In fact I do have DOSBox installed on my computer, but it never occurred to me to use it to install RA for Arda, since I thought it would only install the DOS version of the game, not the Win95 version...
@AlexB
Do you think it would be a good idea to update the Arda manual and add instructions for installing RA using DOSBox or by manually copying the files to the hard drive?
