Red Alert 2 main menu and cinematics problem
Help! I downloaded and installed the Free Red Alert 2 on Origin. Upon launching the game, I am having problems with the opening cinematics and the main menu. It's not displaying properly. I have che...
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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.
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.
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
- thank you very much!it worked for me after many hours of searching for solutions!!!!!
