Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge Won't Appear

@xDoomcloudx

In the Origin program, open the game's properties and check the box to disable the Origin In Game feature. None of the C&C games work well with it, so it's advised to do this for all of them.

If the option is greyed out, it's because you tried to launch the game first, and the launcher process makes Origin think the game is running. To get around that, simply kill the process (or restart your PC) and then try again.

Besides that... 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

Tiberian Sun:

• Funkyfr3sh's Tiberian Sun patch

Red Alert 2:

• The graphics system patch DDWrapper is known to solve the "black screen" issue.
  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.

It is strongly advised to install all of these.

It didn't work. Still is a background process.

@xDoomcloudx Peculiar. Is this before or after you make the choice between RA2 and Yuri's Revenge?

Because if it's the actual launcher program not starting to give you the choice, there's an unofficial replacement for that.

@Nyerguds The download fixed the launcher being a background process, but now the game itself is a background process.

@xDoomcloudx And... you definitely disabled the "Origin In Game" stuff?

@Nyerguds I've disabled "Origin In Game". It is still a background process.

@FunkyFr3shCnCNet I've never placed a file like that in there, but, there is a file named exactly like that. Do I delete / remove it from the folder?

@xDoomcloudx

You can delete it, yes. But double check that you are really inside of your Red Alert 2 folder so you don't remove any files from the wrong folder by accident

@FunkyFr3shCnCNet Strange. How would a network patch cause stuff like that?