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10 years ago
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Red Alert2: Yuri's Revenge graphics Issue

Hi guys, I'm new to this forum so i am not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask this. I downloaded the RA2+Yuri's Revenge (YR) bundle today from origin since it was free  and played RA2 witho...
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    Nyerguds
    10 years ago

    @lethwyn Wooah. Trippy.

    The graphics system patch DDWrapper is known to solve a bunch of problems. It might help with this, too.

    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 launch the game again.

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    If you still have problems with RA2 even after this, I advise installing the CnCNet installer for RA2/YR. It comes with a bunch of automatic fixes, and has a configuration tool which offers more choices in graphics fixes than just DDWrapper, so if one doesn't work you can just try if some of the other options do the trick.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

I just tried your idea, but I am sad to say it did not work. There was no change. I am going to try various compatibility modes to see if anything helps.

Edit: I jsut tried it any none of them seem to work. I may be changing the setting of the wrong file though, it's hard to see what the executable is when the launcher is seperate. I still changed the settings as per your suggestion to all files I think are executables

Edit2: I am trying to add a screenshot of the game to show every1 what my problem is exactly. I tried to take a screenshot, but for some reason it was not not registering the game as 'on screen' and only took pics of the desktop under it. I decided to upload a picture taken from my phone since it's better than nothing.I think you can see the dimensions of my monitor and the boundaries of the game clearly. Also, the colors are what I am getting. They are not an error from the upload or transfer or whatever. 

Edit 3: the pic seems to be upside down. It is not a problem since I only put it up so yall see what the issue is.

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Nyerguds
Hero+
9 years ago

@lethwyn

By the way, some recent mess with holiday pictures made me figure out what the problem is with that picture being upside down. Whatever camera/phone/ipad you used when taking it... you held it upside down when you took the picture.

Seems this saves the image upside down as it was taken, but saves viewing instructions into the file that tell photo viewer apps that to display it, it should be rotated 180 degrees. Chrome seems to obey these instructions, but only when viewing the file as bare image. When it's embedded on a web page it no longer applies the rotation. That's why it looked odd here.

So, long story short... browser limping behind on evolving technology  😉

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