I believe your problem is all about the compatibility mode you're running the game in.
Instead of just running the game by double clicking on the exe icons as you normally, you will want to right click on them and run with the option to "troubleshoot compatibility".
As you can see within the right-click drop menu you can see the highlighted listing "Troubleshoot Compatibility".
It will run a system test to see if that fixed it, but don't let it. Just right click on the start up file for either game and make sure the modes are set to what you see in manually choose a version of windows to be compatible with for each by again just right clicking the start file and then going to "Properties" at the bottom of the pop up list. Open it and then you will choose the "compatibility tab" at the top for the select the mode you want to run it with.
As you can see in the two open property windows on the right side of my photo, you will want to choose " Windows Vista " for Red Alert to function as best as possible.
Oddly enough, Yuri's Revenge needs to run with Windows XP (service pack 3) compatibility mod on.
Give it a go and report back if that worked. IF so, I'll edit the OP with this information in order to save everyone the grief I suppose
I'm having this problem too and I'm using Windows 10 64bit. The game loads fine on Origin, but the main menu is in 640 x 480 resolution, and every time I try to change it to a higher resolution the screen either goes purple-y or totally blue; I had to use ctrl alt del to close RA2 whenever this happens. I've tried all the solutions here and here no luck ☹️ Any help would be much appreciated since I just got the C&C Collection and RA2 is one of the reasons why I bought it.
I have started to have problems this week. Every time I run the game from two-game menu of Origin, game is loaded, black screen showed, right after this it minimizes istelf to start bar. When I click to open it, everything is the same - blink of black screen and then back to desktop with the game minimized. Then I have to kill it via task manager.
I have screen patch installed from the beginning. It worked fine till I have installed Windows updates. I have Win 10 Pro, 1909 build 18363.1256.
I tried to reinstall the game, change resolution via RA2(MD).ini but it is still the same.
Please help!
Thanks.
I am having the exact same problem. Did you find a fix?
Thanks
You have to go to the RA2 configuration file and chnage the settings manually. Then your game will load at 1024x768.
C:/Program Files/Origin Games/Command and Conquer RAII/ RA2 (configuration settings) file type.
this file will open as a notepad.
scroll down to the following and input your desired screen resolution.…
[Video]
ScreenWidth=1024
ScreenHeight=768
StretchMovies=no
hit save. And start the game.
enjoy!
There are additional settings required in the INI file:
[Video]
VideoBackBuffer=no
AllowHiResModes=yes
AllowVRAMSidebar=no
ScreenWidth=1920
ScreenHeight=1080
StretchMovies=no
