Red Alert 2 Recomp v0.1.3

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Installer for Windows, Installer for Linux, Installer for macOS (Apple Silicon)

Red Alert 2 and Yuri’s Revenge, recompiled and playable on Windows, Linux and macOS. Download the installer for your platform below.

Fixed

Windows: ra2.exe wouldn’t start on some PCs, with “The subsystem needed to support the image type is not present” (#30, thanks @Qrusher14242 and @LittleHelperVR). The exe had grown big enough to overlap the spot where Windows places one of its own system files (the 32-bit ntdll.dll). Windows picks that spot at random on each boot, which is why only some PCs hit it. The exe’s screen buffers are now allocated when the game runs, so it stays well clear.
Linux and macOS: quitting left the game running. Closing the window, Cmd+Q or Quit in the Dock made the window go away, but the process stayed, and the app sat in the Dock until force-quit. The game now gets 3 seconds to exit on its own and is then closed, as the Windows build already did (#33, by @hauxir).

If you build from source on Windows: pull, then delete the build and build-game folders before rebuilding. Visual Studio’s incremental linking would otherwise keep the old, oversized exe layout.

The full list is in CHANGELOG.md.

Installers for Windows, Linux and macOS are attached, with SHA256SUMS.txt.

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Red Alert 2 Recomp v0.1.3

Fixed