My Red Alert 3 mod wont launch on a certain computer

[Oblivion165 0]

Hi there, my friends and I are trying to play this mod I made but one of my friends red alert 3 refuses to use the mod.

 

The mod is installed on his computer at:

%MyDocuments%\Red Alert 3\Mods\ObEdition\ObEdition.big

%MyDocuments%\Red Alert 3\Mods\ObEdition\ObEdition_1.0.skudef

 

Here is the mod:

www.pokemonca.net/pub/Red%20Alert%203%20-%20Oblivions%20Edition%201.3.zip

 

What happens is this:

 

1. He launches red alert 3 from steam with the command line option "-ui"

2. Hit's "Game Browser"

3. Mods Tab ~ Double clicks ObsEdition and red alert 3 lauches up

 

The problem is that red alert 3 is launching into the stock version, none of the mod changes are taking effect. They work perfectly with me and my other friend but no go for him. If he plays a skirmish under my mod, it even saves the replay as [obe]Replay but like i said, its not actually in my mod.

 

Things I have tried:

1. Verifying game cache

2. Command lining the game through steam like so: "-applaunch 17480 -win -modConfig "C:\Documents and Settings\[hisusername]\My Documents\Red Alert 3\Mods\ObEdition\ObEdition_1.0.skudef"

 

and yes the game starts up in windowed mode so i know its getting the command line correctly

3. short path to the mod file

4. making a mod launcher that sets the working folder to the installed steam folder

5. copying the mod to the root directory and not including the full path

6. used a par file to verify the mod files were the same as mine

 

Yikes, what a mess.

 

My system:

Windows 7 x64 Professional

Wolfdale Core 2 Duo 3.16ghz

GeForce GTX 470

4gb Ram

 

Friends system that also runs it:

Windows 7 x86

GeForce GTX 460

3gb Ram

 

Friends system that wont run it:

Windows XP

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+

3gb Ram

GeForce 9400GT

 

When looking in google, the only instances I can find about this are when people are using pirated copies but we all 3 own the steam version. I also posted this in the official red alert 3 modding forums but no help there.

 

[Plok 327]

Does the computer that can't run it have fully updated DX 9.0c? I remember trying to run a mod for PES 2010 (my nation's league patch), but it couldn't work properly because of some missing DX files.