Command and conquer original not working correctly in windows 10
If I let the game run in non compatability mode it has wide lines across the screen. If I set it Windows 7 the game works until another process interrupts it and returns me to windows. When I reselect the c&c icon on the task bar, the game continues but the options menu now comes up as a black rectangle.
Command & Conquer 1, Red Alert 1 and Tiberian Sun have all been upgraded with community-created unofficial patches that fix a lot of their bugs and compatibility problems. For Red Alert 2 there's a more general patch that solves a lot of its graphics problems. You can find them here:
Command & Conquer 1:
- Nyerguds' C&C95 v1.06c revision 3 patch (which also adds bonus missions originally exclusive to the Playstation and Nintendo 64 versions of the game)
Red Alert 1:
- Funkyfr3sh's automatic Red Alert 1 patcher/installer
- Nyerguds' main.mix cleanup for TFD/TUC (Not really needed, but cleans up about a gigabyte of unnecessary files in the RA1 folder. Unpack in the game folder, run "patch_main.bat", let it finish, and then delete the files you extracted.)
Tiberian Sun:
Red Alert 2:
- The graphics system patch DDWrapper is known to solve the "black screen" issue.
Download the zip file and extract "ddraw.dll" and "aqrit.cfg" into your game folder. Then, open the configuration file "aqrit.cfg" in Notepad, change the "ForceDirectDrawEmulation" option to 1, save the file, and the game should work.
It is strongly advised to install all of these.
Note that I have had some issues with C&C1 on Win10 even after the patch. Fiddling with compatibility modes should fix that. Oddly, to get it running I had to specifically disable the "run as administrator" option. What makes this even more bizarre is that, when running in any compatibility mode, the program asks to run as administrator anyway, so you'd think the actual "run as admin" compatibility option shouldn't make any difference. 🤨
