Red Alert2: Yuri's Revenge graphics Issue

Hi All,

I posted up in another thread with similar graphical issues and game crashing.

I downloaded the patch in this thread and all seemed well! Until about 15 minutes into the game when it crashed.

Had to hard reset.

I'm surprised they would still allow this game to be downloaded through origin and not put the effort into optimising the game for windows 10. 

I can't imagine it would take very long for them to do so, and for all the people that aren't as tech savvy as others, it can get a bit confusing applying multiple patches and configuring properties.

Get crackin EA and fix it up!

Thanks

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@reviloTC wrote:

I can't imagine it would take very long for them to do so

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Ehhh.... you lack imagination then. Getting old Windows games to run properly on new systems is not a trivial matter. This isn't like DOS games; you got one solution there, namely DOSBox, that just emulates DOS, and does it so well that everything simply works. But with windows games, you have generations of slightly different operating systems, not to mention CD copy protections and other DRM, which all react slightly different on more modern PCs. Even worse, some games contain actual bugs where they do stuff wrong in the system's memory, but older OSes simply never noticed it, and since newer ones are more strict on that stuff, that makes the program crash now. This stuff is not trivial at all.

My advice, install the CnCNet online play installer for RA2/YR. Even if you're not interested in online play, it comes with a bunch of automatic fixes, and has a configuration tool which offers a variety of choices in graphics output systems, so if one configuration doesn't work you can just try if some of the other options do the trick. And if you can't figure it out, hit up the CnCNet crew on their forum or their Discord channel; they can definitely help you out.

@fingalfin

Check my post just above yours...

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My advice, install the CnCNet online play installer for RA2/YR. Even if you're not interested in online play, it comes with a bunch of automatic fixes, and has a configuration tool which offers a variety of choices in graphics output systems

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if one configuration doesn't work you can just try if some of the other options do the trick.

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And if you can't figure it out, hit up the CnCNet crew on their forum or their Discord channel; they can definitely help you out.

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Really, if one solution doesn't work; do read a bit more. The original answer I gave here is four years old; we got more solutions now.

Anyway, I edited this info into the solution post now, so people can more easily find it.

I want to say thanks. 2020 and the fix still works, on windows 10 even!

the DDWrapper worked for me because all im trying to do is play the campaign.

Not sure if anyone is looking, but I also found a way through a bunch of searching to utilize your entire screen.

go into your game directory and type .ini  into the search field. open the ini file and modify the length and width. i normally have a 2560x1440 resolution but the game ends up being WAY too small. I went with 1280x720 and im back in action.

Thanks to everyone who keeps finding solutions for awesome old school games.

@Nyerguds Thank you so much! The CnCNet online play installer for RA2/YR download worked for me! I am so grateful that you have been helping people with this issue and that I found this forum! Thanks for being there for us! I just updated parts in my PC and ended up with this same issue. I am happy that a fix from years ago still works on Windows 10. Thank you for everything!

does anyone have any advice after installing CNCnet? i installed it and it seemed to work fine but once i started playing the campaign on yuris revenge the map would constantly drift to the left.