anyway to change to a windowed mode in red alert 2
can i play red alert 2 windowed
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It seems this dll fixes the 16-bit colour issue:
https://github.com/CnCNet/ts-ddraw/releases
This was originally made for Tiberian Sun, though, and apparently development on it was never truly completed, so there may be bugs. I talked to the developer, and they said that one of the known issues was that the click-areas of the buttons on the main menu won't get positioned on the actual buttons correctly, so you'll have to experiment a bit to get them clicked correctly.
Anyway. Full procedure should be:
-Install Bibber's fixed launcher for Red alert 2 / Yuri's Revenge
-Find the folder in which the game is installed, and put the ddraw.dll from the link above into it..
-In the Origin client, right-click the Red alert 2 / Yuri's Revenge item and open the game properties
-Make sure to disable the Origin In-Game option, and put "-win" in the "command line parameters" field.
That's it. Running the game now should give you.windowed mode.
It works! but... I notice that in the menu, the button are now flashing like its constantly refreshing. Any ideas how to fix that?
The link for the ddraw.dll fix download appears to be broken! (-_-)
Does anyone know where to find this file?
- I Think this may be the right link: https://github.com/CnCNet/ts-ddraw/releases
- @JacobBulloch Yea, TS-DDraw has come a long way in the past 7 years, heh. It now definitely officially supports RA2.
I did everything here, and noticed the launcher open faster, but when I click yuri's revenge it open the window and then crashes, got any ideas?
I have this same problem - did you find a fix? I wonder if this has to do with the switch from Origin to the EA App.
- @WayneOfGoats Try to disable Windows 95 compatibility mode in yuri.exe properties (admin privilegies required).
