Try to disable the In-Game overlay in Origin settings. This resolved my game launch issues with Red Alert 2 and Generals.
Ok So I've worked my way through the thread trying each step and I still have the black screen with the game running behind it. I can click on the in game menu(blindly) and hear it going into each bit. But I still have a black screen with a cursor..
I'm running windows 10 and here's what I've tried so far:
Set RA2 to run in windows xp S2 mode with 16 bit colour and run as admin. Failed
Copy and pasted the RA2.ini file as showed in the thread... Failed
ran compatibility test in windows 10 all options failed.
tried running it all the way back to vista via the compatibility tab... failed.
Anyone come up with anything else I could try please?
The windowed mode solution seems to work, though it's really a workaround and not a real fix 🤒
To play in windowed mode, set the game's exe file to run in 16-bit colour mode (best to set it on all executables; game.exe, gamemd.exe, ra2.exe, ra2md.exe and yuri.exe), add the -win command line parameter to the launch options of RA2, and then install Bibber's fixed TUC launchers so that parameter is actually passed on to the game. Alternately, instead of using the fixed launchers and the Origin launch options, you can edit the ra2.lcf (for RA2) and ra2md.lcf (for Yuri's Revenge) files and add a space and then the "-win" parameter behind the "RUN" line there:
RUN = . game.exe → RUN = . game.exe -win
