Red Alert 2 main menu and cinematics problem

The Exact same problem here, and tried setting to compability   xp patch 3 and run as admin as well,  no luck.   for me   videos and menus end up in a small corner of the screen looking really buggy and flickering,  I have also tried reinstalling it and repairing it and checking for updates.

@nakadrugs @Ramjjam

There are a couple of video options you can mess around with in ra2.ini (for the original game) and ra2md.ini (for Yuri's Revenge).

Normal video settings:

[Video]
AllowHiResModes=yes
ScreenWidth=1280
ScreenHeight=768

AllowHiResModes shows higher resolution choices in the in-game resolution selection list. Not particularly useful, since you would actually need to properly get ingame before you can use that in-game menu for changing the resolution, so if the resolution is exactly your problem (as it often is) you'll most likely end up doing all of that in the ini file anyway.

Extra video options:

VideoBackBuffer=no
AllowVRAMSidebar=yes
StretchMovies=yes
AllowModeToggle=no

VideoBackBuffer determines whether your DirectX-compatible video card uses the back buffer
AllowVRAMSidebar makes the game use virtual memory instead of physical RAM to store the game sidebar.
StretchMovies makes the game stretch the videos to full screen
AllowModeToggle makes the game switch to lower resolution for showing the main menu, to make it appear as full-screen instead of centred in a big black box. Not advised on modern systems, since often the menu's 800x600 resolution gives problems.

I suggest you mess around with these a bit, see if adding/changing any of them can help you.

Thanx for response from my behalf atleast, but unfortunatly nothing of it seems to work ☹️      I'm running  windows 7,   gtx 780,  i5 2500k and 16gb ram.   the small screen in the corner isnt really like a miniature vertion its more like a  blurry mess with the color scheme of what would have been the video Rolling,  or the menu with ocantional you can read 1 letter or something flickering. its wierd if I click where the menu would have been I can start a mission for example and the game itself runs except for ingame menu for buying units aswell ofcourse.   untill I press  ESC. for menu while in a mission then the game seems to semi freeze.  

ah well  if nothing works It was free. and I'v played it enough 100's of hours long Before anyway I guess ^^

heres a example of what it can look like for me.

I have this same problem with the small corner displaying at the top, the menu itself is not showing BUT can be clicked. No idea yet what is causing it

Heya, I went looking for a solution. Got it working. Check out http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert_2

You need to download the Aqrit's ddwrapper and copy two files mentioned then edit the one, can play around with the [Video] option in the .ini file to get everything setup correctly.

Thanx that seemed to have fixed the video problem atleast ^^ now on to the next problem I found myself in.. lol   playing the game seems to work except when entering skirmish as soon as I click that button game freezes ^^  haha aah well  thanx for the help anyway! :D I will get it to work one day!

Hi, you can try this tutorial, how to run Red Alert 2 on Windows 7, 8, 10 from this article http://patrikkopac.blogspot.sk/2015/09/c-red-alert-2-yuris-revenge-windows.html