If you are using a 64-bit version of Windows 7 or Vista then the shipped version of BinaryAssetBuilder with the Red Alert 3 Mod SDK will crash when trying to build your RA3 mod.
Nevermind. Here is a 64-bit friendly version.
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BinaryAssetBuilder_x64.zip (13.0 KiB, 2,477 hits)
If you’ve just installed Red Alert 3 on Windows 7 then you may be presented with a simple black screen on startup, that just freezes there.
YMMV.
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Disable NTFS last access time |
Small increase in performance by having NTFS not note down the time of each file access.
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlFileSystem] "NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate"=dword:00000001 |
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ntfs-disable-last-access-time.reg (150 bytes, 2,452 hits)
Previous versions of Command & Conquer™ had the ability to disable super weapons, but in Red alert 3 this option is abscent. After much googling for a solution, I spent some time creating my own mod that simply disabled the superweapons.
I like to play turtle vs. the Ai in skirmish, and develop intuitive ways to crush my opponent without having to battle vs. super weapons every 5 minutes.
Created based on SDKv3 and RA3v1.12, it disables the ability to build the weapons for both player and AI.
I created two different mods that disable one or both types of superweapons.
Update: Works in Uprising according to this comment.
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Enable or Disable a user account from command prompt |
In a domain environment you can enforce logon times for individual users, I wanted to emulate this behaviour in a workgroup.
To do this first I learnt the following commands in command prompt [cmd] (run as Administrator):
To disable: net user Bob /active:no
To enable: net user Bob /active:yes
I then created 2 tasks in Task Scheduler to disable and enable at the appropriate times.
When creating the tasks its important to note:
This helped to discourage my son from waking up at 4am to play Plants vs Zombies™ on the computer.