C&C renegade does not start anymore after scripts 4.8 update

[asdfw3]

I installed c&c renegade by installing interim apex and then importing the interim apex game as c&c rengade game. This has worked fine so far. The scripts update program would then automatically download & overwrite incompatible files.

 

With the latest scripts 4.8 update, the game does not start anymore. Instead, it gives an error popup "set working folder and try again..."

 

Can we fix this somehow?

[Einstein]

On 10/1/2023 at 4:42 PM, asdfw3 said:

I installed c&c renegade by installing interim apex and then importing the interim apex game as c&c rengade game. This has worked fine so far. The scripts update program would then automatically download & overwrite incompatible files.

 

With the latest scripts 4.8 update, the game does not start anymore. Instead, it gives an error popup "set working folder and try again..."

 

Can we fix this somehow?

What you describe seems to be some sort of process to obtain part of Renegade for free, which is not possible through our system. In order to maintain a good relationship with EA and also stay legal ourselves, we can not provide anyone with a way to bypass the legal method of obtaining a paid product, nor assist them in doing so. This falls under "warez", which goes against our community rules.

Renegade can be purchased alongside 16 other C&C games in the C&C Ultimate collection for $20 USD normally, or frequently as little as $8 when it is on sale. This is the best legal deal that exists, and I highly recommend it!

If you insist on obtaining the game outside of the legal means, there are plenty of places on the internet where Renegade in its entirety can be illegally obtained, but again, we can not touch that with a 10 foot pole if we wish to continue to exist. And besides that, downloading pirated software is a great way to get infected, in which case you will be out money getting that fixed at a computer shop anyway - that $8 is looking better all the time, no?

Related to your question, whatever you do, you need to tell the W3D-Hub launcher to "forget" your boogered game instance if you wish to link the launcher with a copy of Renegade in the future. Go ahead and delete that because there is no fixing a tangled combination of two games. Depending on what exactly you did there, some additional cleanup may be required to get a proper game copy working. Honestly I am surprised that what you did worked at all, as we attempt to prevent that from happening. The specific issue you are having is likely due to the fact that your "game" still identifies itself as IA, even though you have slapped some Renegade files on top. It is possible that this shared identity has also affected your normal IA install in some way as well, but maybe not. In the end, you may have to blow it all away and install fresh copies to get it all working.