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At a recent LAN I went to I had the urge to play some Red Alert 2. The only problem is that it’s netcode is based on the IPX protocol which has been phased out of Vista. A little bit of google searching later and I found a patch that lets you play Red Alert 2 and Tiberian Sun over UDP rather than IPX.

You can get the patch on Moddb

All you need to do is extract the files from the archive and place the wsock32.dll file in your RA2 folder alongside the game executable.

You may need to enter the network options screen before you can enter the network section of the game. On my system the network game menu would not open, but would rather return you immediately to the main menu. Going into the network options and returning seemed to fix that.