"Red Alert 2 installation is damaged" error

[~Guest~]

2011-01-04 20:08:16 Initialization started.
2011-01-04 20:08:16 Loading options...
2011-01-04 20:08:16 Red Alert 2 install path established: C:\Westwood\Red Alert 2
2011-01-04 20:08:16 Red Alert 2 installation is not from The First Decade DVD.
2011-01-04 20:08:16 Checking for free disk space.
2011-01-04 20:08:16 Confirming safe files...
2011-01-04 20:08:16 Loading plugins...
2011-01-04 20:08:16 Loading mods...
2011-01-04 20:08:16 Your Red Alert 2 installation is damaged. Unrecognized Red Alert 2 version. Please reinstall Red Alert 2.
2011-01-04 20:08:19 Program terminating.
2011-01-04 20:08:19 'Persistent Plugins' is disabled. Deactivating all plugins...
2011-01-04 20:08:19 Saving settings.


I downloaded Red Alert 2 from http://xwis.net/downloads/

Is there anything I forgot to mention?

[Renegade]

Did you update it to 1.006?

[DCoder]

I downloaded Red Alert 2 from http://xwis.net/downloads/

What? Is that even a legal distribution?

[~Guest~]

@Renegade: The installer appears to come with version 1.006 (it says so in the main menu).

@DCoder: It was made by Olaf so I guess so, the installer doesn't ask for any serials but with XWIS' new (and retarded) login/registering system you'll have to register a name online via the XWIS control panel and associate it with a legit serial. The campaign doesn't work (which might be why Launch Base gives the error message).

I've asked my brother if he has non-broken Red Alert 2 CDs and he gave me working ISOs that he made RA2 a few years ago, so I got Launch Base running.

[Renegade]

In other words, the weird-ass cracked XWIS version is the issue, not LB?

[~Guest~]

Yup Launch Base works perfectly fine (tested the Red Ares mod with it and the UMP+plugins). LB's checks apparently refuse it to load.

[Marshall]

Launch Base gives this error when you have no registry entries of any kind. Neither original nor TFD.