Re: Red alert 2 black screen with sound and mouse

Well like I said, personally I have tried all those methods and none of them have worked.  I'm out of options at this point, have reinstalled the game(s) as well to no avail.

Shameless bump for more solutions!

This problem usually happens if you have a custom install/mods or any of the original game files in the folder is missing/renamed (should not happen with the ultimate collection),  kinda strange it happens for you.

Windows detects red alert 2 and applies compat settings automatically, that fails on custom installations. You could try to apply them on your own using the application compatibility toolkit from microsoft, here are the settings you need to apply (game.exe / gamemd.exe):

EmulateSlowCPU

DXPrimaryEmulation -DisableMaxWindowedMode

8And16BitTimedPriSync

Make sure you run the tool as admin, else it won't do anything at all

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There is also a ddraw proxy dll which can fix some of the problems, but it is in beta stage and it might not be the best to use it atm

Using that application did nothing at all sadly ☹️, and I have yet to run any mods on RA2/YR.  Why would my case scenario produce no fixes so far but most everyone else has it working?

I'm losing my mind!

Bumpin again for more solutions.

None of them are working...

There things verry wrong with the game.

Please fix it

OK so i found a temporary solution. you can play this in windowed mode and it will work. right click on the icon and select the last option "Properties". Then go to "Compatibility" tab and on "Reduced color mode" select 16bit. Now go to "Shortcut" tab and, where it says Target, add:
-win
in the end. add it AFTER the quotation marks (these: " ") and a space before it, like this: http://i.imgur.com/N5js7Bz.png

What complete and utter nonsense; I've just installed this game fresh (unmodified in anyway), on a fresh windows installation with all the very latest drivers and windows updates and its screwed.

All I get is black screen, game sounds and a white mouse icon..  Good one Origin.

Something else worth mentioning:

<------- Look at my Avatar, I never at any point EVER chose to use any kind of FIFA/Football image as my Origin AVATAR, not once.  In fact, i created my own personal one.   It seems that not only do Origin knowingly chose to give away or sell you games that don't work out of the box,  they also choose to manipulate your avatars to self-promote their up and coming games (i.e Fifa 16), doing their utmost to subliminally promote it all over their website.

Back to Steam we go....  A magical place with a far superior community, where everything just works!

first time i liked the free origin game and now it just doenst work on my windows 10 laptop..

Yep, broken for me too. I've been through the sticky thread but none of that worked either (Win 8.1).

It seems a bit odd to advertise your service with a free game that doesn't work on current operating systems, but there you go. 

I am not a programmer, and it seems to me that in order to play these games you must work with code, adjust file locations, rename certain files, ect. We need ORIGIN to help with these issues, not a user based community. They changed my avatar to something stupid as well. So typical of a company to sell broken software and depend on their customers to resolve the issue. This puts pure hatred into my heart. Steam has all the games they have anyways. 

@KaptinSponges @puftos @ASDDIB @farez101

The graphics system patch DDWrapper is known to solve some graphics issues on RA2. You could try that.

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.

Alternatively, you could try downloading CnCNet online which also fixes the compatibility problems. 

@neogrant

Thanks a lot, the DDWrapper didn't work, but the CnCNet fixed my problem, and it's really nice to play online!

First of all, I would like to thank you for this solution which worked right away. 

Also, I would like to tell you that your solution worked on my surface 4 pro with windows 10 without needing to change the compatibility mode.

Thank you very much again.

Fawaz Almejlad

this worked for me bro thhhxxxxx😃🤓

definitely worked for me....thanks alot  

Applying the graphics patch DDWrapper worked for me thanks. Red Alert2 & Yuris revenge standard edition,  Windows 10 64 bit 

this is the real issue. selling knowingly broken games and utterly refusing to service them knowing that desperate gamers--the biggest consumer suckers in the world--will do your job for free. It's pure cash mining off an old brand.

I'm asking for a refund on the entire package. Tiberian Sun didn't work and now RA2 doesn't work. They all have the exact same issues, which means it's a compatibility problem that EA si more than capable of solving with their professionals.

That's what they're paid to do.

I'm not digging into code to make games work. That's why I pay people to do this.

Thanks heaps, I, fortunately, found your solutions here. The DDWrapper has solved the black screen for me (Windows 10).  :eahigh_file:

Guys ur solutions worked only for Red alert 2 version 1.006 what about total destruction version 

i can't see menus (windows 10)

@amr_kamal1993

Uh... that's a mod, not a different version. It seems this mod includes its own exe file, so there's no telling what might have been changed inside it. Heck, it might even require the original game disc.

I did it :D .. mixing between v.1006 files and total destruction mod files :D .. i don't know really what i did but it worked for me :D 

EXCELLENT HELPED ME ALOT!!