red alert 1, 2 and tiberian sun wont launch
red alert 1,2 and tiberian sun will not work at all i keep getting "cant set video mode" and before you even bother thinking it yes ive tried EVERYTHING thats apparently meant to rectify this but it ...
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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.
@Nyerguds
still nothing. its gotten past the "cant set video mode" but now they just outright crash and i have to restart the computer each time they crash cause i cant click anything on the desktop or anywhere else. this is truly starting to tick me off >.>
Honestly, if you have problems with such a diverse set of games, there may be something wrong with your PC itself... RA2 and TS use DDraw as graphics system, but on C&C1 and RA1 the patches switch that to a different one, usually OpenGL.
For C&C1 and RA1 you could try tweaking the settings in ddraw.ini and setting the renderer to GDI instead; maybe that'll help?
@Nyerguds
i dont know how to alter .ini files properly last time i tried the game i did that on broke entirely. if i were to alter the .ini file id need a fairly simplified step by step procedure as im not terribly good with tech-talk and id probably alter the wrong thingEhh. It's a text file. Double click to open it in notepad.
ini format itself is ridiculously simple; it's a collection of "key=value". You leave the key name, you change the value. Lines starting with ';' are comments and will be ignored by the reading system.
The comments inside the file itself should explain how to modify things inside it correctly. As far as I know, you just find a line saying "renderer=opengl" or something, and change the value behind the = to "gdi".
