Red Alert 2 run error
The menu for Red Alert 2 doesn't show when I run it on my Windows 7 PC. Is there a fix? The game runs if I just hit enter blindly but, since I can't see any of the menu options, I can't choose what...
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Can you take a screen shot and show me?
I don't know how to copy a screen shot here. However, what I see on my monitor is not what the screen shot took. On my monitor, all I see is the YR Main Menu screen with none of the words. All of the buttons are blank and there's no logo on the "radar" screen. When I took the screen shot, everything was there. Could there be a problem with the refresh rate on my PC? Even when I blindly click on a button, it goes to the next menu but there aren't any words on the buttons.
Thanks for your help.
You could put a screenshot on imgur.com but that's redundant now, I understand the problem.
However I have no idea how to fix it. I'd suggest reinstalling if you haven't tried it already...
Thanks for trying. Yes, I reinstalled and ran the install fix. Seems like an odd problem. I dont have it with RA3.
Maybe this works?:
Vista/7 Users should install the game in Admin mode, to do this run Windows Explorer then browse to your DVD drive,
right click on Setup.exe -> Properties -> Compatibility > Tick "Run This Program as an Administrator". Also please install DrectX 9c for Windows Vista (32bit & 64bit)/Windows 7 (32bit) from the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/e...displaylang=en
For Windows 7 64bit download & install the DirectX SDK from March 2008:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en...ng=en&id=10568
Load up both the 32bit and 64bit DirectX Control Panels and enable Hardware Acceleration:
Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft DirectX SDK (March 2008) -> DirectX Utilities -> DirectX Control Panel -> DirectDraw -> Tick "Hardware Acceleration" -> Click OK
Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft DirectX SDK (March 2008) -> DirectX Utilities (64-Bit) -> DirectX Control Panel -> DirectDraw -> Tick "Hardware Acceleration" -> Click OK
This will mean that all the older versions of DirectX are correctly installed and should avoid problems (mainly with Renegade) of games loading and not showing anything but a black screen
