Do you happen to have Skype or Steam or something open in the background? I know notifications from programs like that can cause the game to flicker while they pop up. The best fix for that is simply to make sure they're all closed and nothing will give you desktop notifications while you're playing.
no it's just flickering. no problems with notification programs
it is definitley my origin in the background flickering...
also I can't change the game resolution in any way....
tried changing it in the ini files but for yuris revenge it doesn't seem to work
EDIT: Yuri's revenge doesn't seem to scale in the menu but does it ingame. so that problem is fixed.(kinda.. still weird that you can't change the resolutions in the menu...)
Now it is just this FLICKERING
well then I went on pcgamingwiki and OH WONDER what it says there:
This happens if you have downloaded Aqrit's ddwrapper and extracted the ddraw.dll and aqrit.cfg files into the RA2 folder and have set the ForceDirectDrawEmulation to "1". To fix this set ForceDirectDrawEmulation to "0"
so... what to do now...
I did and and nothing helped...
seems like I got to play the game with a flickering screen or with that graphic problem...
well I got around to a modded version of the game and that works fine... (even though I can't save or play the campaign because of it) ^^'
well.. "mental omega" works fine and the mod is using Yuri's revenge's files... so SOMETHING in there fixed it... I just don't know what... I tried swapping out some of the files but I still haven't found out what fixes it... I'm no professional so I don't know what could fix it... 😞 maybe someone could look into it and find a fix... but it definitley is not me 🤔
@ErturkEllez wrote:
Are there any new solutions for Half Screen and Purple Gameplay?
The purple is usually fixed by the DDWrapper mentioned before... but another thing that seems to cause a lot of issues is display scaling, something Windows seems to have enabled by default on a lot of systems nowadays.
There's a compatibility mode option to disable it, but I've heard from multiple sources that often the problems caused by it don't stop until the option is actually disabled in the windows display settings.
I am having an issue where the GUI in game doesn't show, can't build building or train anything due to this. yet the main menu etc works fine.
Changing the resolution can fix this but I have to play it in windowed mode on a resolution much smaller then my screen which is very annoying, any fixes to patch this?
Sadly none of the fixes worked, wich means that I still get the Pinkscreen :/
Any suggestions or other resolutions?
Uhm. The DDWrapper fix should solve that one. It's mentioned on the first page.
I think that's the display scaling issue. It's mentioned among the posts in this thread.
Even when I had the DDWrapper with the right settings, it woudln't work.
EDIT: I reinstalled the game and did everything according to this thread and it might have fixed the half pink screen (wich I can't check), but the only problem now is that everytime I want to start a skirmish or campaign, it just crashes.
EDIT2: It works fine for a good amount of time in 800x600 resolution, but after a good amount of playtime in my skirmish match, it crashed.
EDIT3: I was searching the Web and found another fix that finally worked together with this one. Still thanks for the help 🙂
I Looked In The Options Of the aqrit config file and tried to set ForceBltNoTearing to 1, i allows you to play in windows 10 with no flashes of the screen, i will have to play longer to see if there are problems at the long run but seems to work just fine...
P.D: It really pisses me off the fact that EA cant release an update or an official patch to fix the compatibility of this awesome game...
@Merlonga What was the additional fix you found that worked in conjunction with the above fixes in this thread? What were your settings?
I am still at the crossroad of not being able to play. The game either always flickers, and crashes after 10-15 minutes or if I happen to click on one of the areas of the screen rendered outside of the game, causing me to switch windows entirely. With "ForceDirectDrawEmulation = 0," I return to the half screen shifted pink/purple dominated screen colors and skewed resolutions. I too found Mental Omega to fix this issue past and present but do not know what they did (intentionally or not) to fix the issue. Though I have not really delved into it deeply relative to my knowledge, which is fairly limited, for about a decade. I have had a friend who also has the same problem, who researched and tinkered with the issue. He tried many of the same things here, if not all. He has a strong knowledge of operating systems and computers than most (certifications, for one). Same issue as I have remains...
While RA2 was easy, just easy to find patch made by community YR was more troublesome as some issues are caused by Origin luncher.
RA2 can be easly lunched with game.exe but to get this for YR You will need to change .exe file.
At least it was case for me.
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