I downloaded Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge, when I go to play it I select my game and the screen goes full, I hear the music, and the in game curser, but my screen stays black.
Its not an issue with the graphics card.
What could it be?
How do you know it is not an issue with the graphics card? Red Alert 2 should work fine on newer windows versions (8/8.1).
There was some problem with nvidia cards where you ended up with a black screen.
Give this a try:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hojMNk93PoU
You can skip the first 4minutes of the video, try to just switch your display to the built in graphics cards
