RA2 and Yuris Revenge Ultimate Collection
I was trying to get ra2 to work with origin, and I found a way to get around the black screen. It involved either the game.exe file or the ra2.ini file. Everything else I had tried failed, but this i...
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I'll just go ahead and list all of the unofficial patches for the first 4 games...
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.
I had already downloaded ddwrapper file, and nothing has changed. I have resolved the blackscreen issue, but now I am stuck with what is described in the video. It may be a resolution problem, but where do I correct the error in the game's files?
@MegaPeg44 Why are you running the game in windowed mode? As far as I know, you need to reduce your desktop colour depth to 16-bit colours before that works. On windows 10 it's an option you can enable on the exe file itself, but in anything lower you'll have to do it manually. I wouldn't really advise running the game windowed.
What system are you running on?
I'm using Windows 10, and I did try adjusting it to 16-bit in compatibility mode. I don't know what you meant concerning the .exe file, or the system. If you meant gaming system, I downloaded it on Origin, but if you meant computer system, Im using a Surface Pro 3 @Nyerguds Also, windowed mode? Is that why there is an x button on the top right? I wasn't aware that that was a problem.
@MegaPeg44 Yeah, normally this game should run full screen... that X button shouldn't be there. The process to actually get it windowed is rather contrived though, so I doubt it's something you did by accident. Unless other things can cause it, that is. Did you set any command line parameters in the game's origin settings?
Anyway,
-The "exe file" I mentioned is the game's program file; it's the thing you would have enabled that compatibility mode on. If you'd enable file extensions, you'd see all such executables have the ".exe" extension.
-With "your system" I meant your Windows version and your device, yes. I assume this "Surface Pro 3" is some kind of Windows tablet? That may indeed make some difference...
Maybe this is relevant? I've heard that changing that "display scaling" option fixes stuff in some cases.
https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/apps-and-windows-store/app-display-issues
