With these settings all of the sliding bars in menu options are out of the range (see the link bellow). I am running this game on 4k display on windows 10 with 250% recommended scaling. I followed all the steps mentioned below.ġ.Buy Command and Conquer The Ultimate Edition on Origin I havent tried these steps with Yuris Revenge, but it should still work the same. Then lastly add yourself as an owner in the security tab of the Command and Conquer Red Alert II folder. Make sure in the compatibility tab of game.exe and Ra2.exe make sure compatibiliy mode is set to windows xp service pack 3 and Run this program as an administrator is checked. (This is also with the suggested modifications I found, so paste this even if its all there.) I dont think it was doing the initial writing of the.ini correctly when the game first started, the black screen must of been halting the process somewhere. Mine was blank except for the first line: Please let me know in the comments for any other resources that can prove useful, so I can add them in the above bullet point list.įor those of you getting the black screen on startup, these steps FINALLY worked for me:įind RA2.INI in the root folder of the game and copy paste this in there: Any problems need to be fixed by unofficial methods and patches, for the moment being. Red Alert 2 was coded with DirectDraw in mind, so applying this rewrite may fix problems for you (credit /u/eightNote, link to original comment)ĪFAIK, the Origin version is the latest, 1.006, so no official patches need to be downloaded. DirectDraw is an obsolete module of DirectX, superseded by Direct3D. This is a rewrite of DirectDraw for Red Alert 2 and other C&C games.Command & Conquer Graphics Patcher, fixes lag, unclickable menus and resolution issues, does not fix black screen after Alt + Tab: (credit /u/mikeyd85, link to original comment).Common Problems, Read This Before Posting!, Command and Conquer: The Ultimate Collection, EA Answers HQ:.

Red Alert 2, PCGamingWiki: & Conquer: Red Alert 2.

Once unstickied, this thread will be integrated in the FAQ (wiki tab on top of the subreddit's frontpage/hot). Right now the popularity of the game has exploded because of the 'On the House' Origin deal, and I sense that compatibility and bugs are the most important current matter to deal with.

It will be indefinitely stickied until something more important needs attention. Greetings and welcome to the subreddit! This is a post that I will try to keep constantly updated with various resources for fixing compatibility issues and bugs.

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