Thread: Command & Conquer Gold - Full hard disk install

The Gold Edition (basically, hi-res Windows port) of Command & Conquer 1 was released as freeware by Electronic Arts, to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the Command & Conquer franchise.

This installer gives you the full game, with all game music, playable without CDs, and upgraded with the fan-made 1.06b patch. The new features added by this patch give you:

• Tons of bug fixes in the game engine, graphics and missions
• An added 1024x768 resolution
• The Covert Operations expansion pack
• All of the exclusive missions made for the console versions of C&C
• About a dozen remixed music tracks which were disabled in the original game
• All 3 original languages in which the game was released on PC (English, German and French), plus an added Spanish translation

The added videos pack completes the game, giving you more than 60 minutes of live-action video briefings and 3D-rendered battle cutscenes


This installer also solves the fact that the CD installer of C&C95 is a 16-bit program, which doesn't run on 64-bit Windows systems.

Download: Complete No-CD game installation pack (v1.06b revision 2, no videos, all music included): 98.8 MB
Download: Videos Addon (original English videos): 467.6 MB

Just un-rar the video addon to your install folder and you can now play through the campaign complete with all the cut scenes.
If you have the original CDs or ISOs, and prefer using them for videos, just go to the folder where you installed the game, open the file conquer.ini in notepad and change the line NoCD=1 to NoCD=0.

Some important notes on the hi-res:

• The first campaign missions for each side will be smaller than the screen resolution, which gives some odd graphical bugs. Most of these are fixed by just touching the edge of the screen with your cursor (to scroll) and then opening and closing the main menu. Since C&C missions get bigger as you progress through the campaign, these problems will be completely gone after mission #3.
• High resolution savegames can't be loaded in low resolution, and vice versa.
• The videos / score screens / map choice screens aren't in high resolution. They are just shown in the upper left corner.
• There's a small bug in hi-res mode which prevents you from placing buildings with a height of one cell on the lowest row of cells on the map. This rarely gives any real problems though.
• If you don't want to play in hi-res, simply open CCSetup.exe and change back to 640x400 or 640x480.

That's all, I guess. Have fun