

Today, more than two decades after its original release, Red Alert 2 is still regarded as the most popular game in the Red Alert franchise and is also regarded as one of the best games in the entire Command & Conquer franchise.Īlready own the game? Download CnCNet and Play Online! Originally developed by Westwood Studios and published by EA Games in 2000, this cult classic of the RTS genre managed to immediately capture the attention of worldwide PC audiences. ~/Downloads $ wine CnCNet5_YR_Installer.Red Alert 2 Online is a community-powered version of a legendary PC real-time strategy game that features completely upgraded version of online experience, allowing users from all around the world to experience this title the way it was intended to be played – in a great online environment where the skills of the players can be showcased without any roadblocks. # cd into the Downloads directory and install the CnCNet client and if all goes well, it should update itself to the current version ~/Downloads/ra2, cd into it and install the game Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge (not part of this guide) # copy the (mounted) game directory into home, e.g. ~$ ls -l ~/wineprefixes/games32/drive_c/'Program Files' # install Microsoft XNA 4.0 using winetricks


# note: This can take more than 20 Minutes to finish # create a new 32bit wine prefix and start the wine configuration utility. ~ $ export WINEPREFIX=~/wineprefixes/games32 # set it as your working directory temporarily # create a directory for your wine prefixes and where you want to install the game Furthermore, the whole setup seems to require a wine 32bit environment emulating Windows 2003. The CnCNet client depends on the Microsoft frameworks. download the CnCNet5 Yuri’s Revenge installer.Screenshot of a wine virtual desktop running Command & Conquer Yuri’s Revenge modded with the CnCNet 5 Client v 8.8.1 on Linux Mint 20.2 OS Prerequisites Here are the instructions on how to get CnCNet 5 working under Linux using Wine. If you want to play the classic Games Red Alert 2 and Red Alert Yuri’s Revenge with multiplayer support on Linux (or other old Command and Conquer Games), you need to download and install the CnCNet Client.
