jamyskis: Nope, the versions in Ultimate Collection are basically the same ones that appeared in The First Decade, many of which in turn have problems on Win7.
There's some fairly easy fixes for them, but they are quite obviously not patched for modern operating systems like EA claimed.
Well, at least they do kill explorer.exe upon startup so you don't get corrupt colors in Windows 7 (maybe also 8), that's an improvement (although that could have been achieved more elegantly with the registry fix that doesn't require to kill explorer.exe). But yeah, you still should really apply some community fixes for an optimal experience. Scrolling is ridiculously fast by default, particularly in RA, there's massive performance irregularities up to RA2 and I think some of the expansion content (like additional music pieces) that had already been restored by the community for TFD have once again to be added manually. And Zero Hour won't start for me at all, asking for the original CD. So yeah, EA once again screwed it up epically. Well, at least I don't need the TFD disc anymore, that's a start. :P
BoxOfSnoo: Can you be more specific? Are you talking about the older ones? Where can one find said fixes?
Here's a few you will need:
cnc-ddraw You will need this one to keep gameplay and scrolling speeds at sensible levels in both Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert. Run it in OpenGL rendering mode and activate vsync in the config file. IIRC you should set the frame limit to 30 FPS for optimal speed.
C&C95 Music Pack Put this into your Tiberian Dawn directory to restore the music from the Covert Operations expansion pack.
CnCPatcher Apply this patch to the executables of Tiberian Sun or Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge to fix performance issues in those games. I'm not sure it worked properly with my Origin version of RA2 / Yuri's Revenge. It worked perfectly fine with Tiberian Sun, though.
