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9 years ago

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Red Alert 2 extreme lag

I have a Lenovo Yoga X1 with Windows 10 and downloaded Command & Conquer Ultimate Collection form Origin and tried to play Red Alert 2. It opened and it was a frozen screen with the audio running fi...

Anonymous
9 years ago
@auzyortman - try looking through this; http://answers.ea.com/t5/C-C-The-Ultimate-Collection/Yuri-s-Revenge-fails-to-stay-open-for-longer-than-a-second/td-p/6071290

real_estate6756

5 years ago

edit the RA2 configuration file and RA2MD configuration file

edit VideoBackBuffer=no, under video in both configuration files. it does stop the game from lagging- still cannot change video resolution, but at least you can play the game

the file should look similar to this.

[Intro]
Play=no

[Options]
GameSpeed=3
Difficulty=1
CampDifficulty=0
ScrollMethod=0
ScrollRate=3
AutoScroll=yes
DetailLevel=2
SidebarCameoText=yes
UnitActionLines=yes
ShowHidden=no
ToolTips=yes

[Video]
VideoBackBuffer=no
ScreenWidth=640
ScreenHeight=480
StretchMovies=no

[Audio]
SoundVolume=0.700000
VoiceVolume=0.700000
ScoreVolume=0.400000
IsScoreRepeat=no
IsScoreShuffle=no
SoundLatency=9
InGameMusic=yes