The latest addition to the popular “Command and Conquer” game series is “C&C3 – Tiberium wars”. It follows the storyline of “Tiberian sun” and the evil Kane has finally returned. “Tiberian sun” and “Red alert” got me addicted to the Real-Time Strategy genre and I purchased and played all the C&C games. This one I picked up at the local MediaMarkt for about 33 euro’s, which was a lot less than the usual 44 euro’s you would have to pay elsewhere.

I use Cedega to play all my “Windows” games, so I had to figure out how I could play this game. This question was quickly answered when I looked through the Cedega forums and the unofficial wiki. Apparently you can install C&C3 with wine 0.9.35 (haven’t tested that), but I used the other method (it’s easier imho). Here’s the trick to get it working.

  1. Borrow a Windows installation and install C&C3, patch it and then use a noCD patch (test if it works).
  2. You’ll need a place to copy the files, so create a game directory using Cedega.
  3. Copy the Windows game directory to the correct directory in the game directory that Cedega created.
  4. Copy the following dll’s to the C&C3 directory on Cedega: gdiplus.dll, msvcr80.dll and d3dx9_29.dll
  5. Export all registry keys that this game uses (it’s a pain to find and export them all).
  6. Import the registry keys into Cedega (I manually edited the system.reg file and it was a lot of work).
  7. Create a shortcut to CNC3.exe (use PixelShaders 2.0, VertexShaders 2.0, FBO on (if you want shadows and VFX detail on “low”), ALSA, Scheduler on, GLSL on, Occlusion queries on)
  8. Enjoy C&C3