Red Alert 2 Issues

@RayzaNC

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:

• Funkyfr3sh's Tiberian Sun patch

Red Alert 2:

• The graphics system patch DDWrapper is known to solve the "black screen" issue, and a bunch of other graphical issues, probably including the one you have.
  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.

Do note, Red Alert 2 was originally designed for 800x600. The graphics in these old games don't scale with the resolution like 3D games do, meaning that increasing the resolution will be showing more map space instead. Too many objects on the viewed screen at the same time is known to cause serious game lag issues, no matter how powerful your PC, and, in pixels, your native resolutions are both over ten times the original intended screen size. So, yeah, you might not want to play at quite that high a resolution. Though I guess resolutions like 1600x???? are probably fine 😉