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[hattrick]

I have a problem running RA2. In the intro movies, there is no video and
> only sound. The menu buttons do not appear, unless the screen is
> manually refreshed by Alt+Tab and refocusing the window (a screenshot is
> not available, due to the sudden re-appearance of buttons and proper
> visual etc. in PrintScreens). In-game, there are stationary spots and
> other spots that change, leading to the game being completely
> unplayable. Anyone have this problem, suggestions on how to fix it, or
> suspect a cause?
>
> Note: All .exe files are set to Windows 98/ME compatibility and are "Run
> as Administrator".
>
> Here is my pc system:
> OS: Windows 7 x64 Ultimate 64bit
> Processor: Intel i7 2630QM @ 2.0 GHz
> Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M (Primary) & Intel Integrated
> Graphics -2gb
> DirectX 11 is installed and fully updated.
> Graphics Card drivers are also fully updated.
> RA v1.006 .
>

[Drasten]

I have a problem running RA2. In the intro movies, there is no video and
> only sound. The menu buttons do not appear, unless the screen is
> manually refreshed by Alt+Tab and refocusing the window (a screenshot is
> not available, due to the sudden re-appearance of buttons and proper
> visual etc. in PrintScreens). In-game, there are stationary spots and
> other spots that change, leading to the game being completely
> unplayable. Anyone have this problem, suggestions on how to fix it, or
> suspect a cause?
>
> Note: All .exe files are set to Windows 98/ME compatibility and are "Run
> as Administrator".
>
> Here is my pc system:
> OS: Windows 7 x64 Ultimate 64bit
> Processor: Intel i7 2630QM @ 2.0 GHz
> Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M (Primary) & Intel Integrated
> Graphics -2gb
> DirectX 11 is installed and fully updated.
> Graphics Card drivers are also fully updated.
> RA v1.006 .
>

Try lowering the resolution, worked for me! Download this:

http://www.obelisk.ro/apps/YuriScreenResolution.zip?attredirects=0

Install and put in ra2 map folder. Start the program and try ALL the resolutions to see which works.

(The program is made to make it easy to change in-game resolution.)

Edited by Drasten, 21 July 2011 - 01:15 PM.

[hattrick]

i tried your advice but still it didnt work for me, any other suggestions ? tx

[NeoGrant]

Hardware accleration set to full? Used the installers as an alternative? Use the readme in this forum.

[uncledrew]

Did you install it as an administator? Uninstall then reinstall as admin.

Edited by a1Peter, 21 July 2011 - 03:53 PM.

[Esworthy]

you dont have to install it as an administrator just run it as admin when you go to play it. Left click on desktop icon and run as admin. I had/have a problem with mine if I don't do this (the game won't load period) but if you do this it should work

[No0bziLLa]

you may need to get a different graphics card, there pretty cheap on ebay, most older ones will do fine, and when your tired of using the old graphics card, just turn it off in the system bios, and it will revert back to your integrated graphics card (intel)

[Kundalini]

I would suggest installing windows XP on a seperate harddisk and running RA2 from there. There are other problems associated with windows 7 and RA2. If you decide to do this you will need to disconnect your windows 7 harddisk while you setup XP otherwise you'll encounter problems during setup. Once done you can reconnect it. You shouldn't have any problems after that.

[No0bziLLa]

but he would still be using the same integrated chips...

[Kundalini]

My graphics card is a Gigabyte (Nvidia) Geforce GTX 580 and runs RA2 on windows 7 but it works better on XP.
Plus you can exit without using task manager.

[Olaf]

you may need to get a different graphics card,

In a laptop?

[Kundalini]

In a laptop?

He doesn't say it's a laptop but I've just looked up the graphics card which is for a laptop.
It would've been easier if he'd said that at the start.

Edited by Kundalini, 05 August 2011 - 03:13 PM.

[Esworthy]

I'm assuming you're using Windows 7? All I had to do was run it as administrator. If that doesn't work right click on the desktop icon and go to properties. Then click on the "compatability" tab. You should have everything unchecked in this tab (of course I bought the First Decade game set so it might not work for you). That's all I got

[No0bziLLa]

In a laptop?

he didnt say it was a laptop, no-one is paying me to look up different hardware setups on different computers.

is still think this is a problem with the refresh rate, because your system is able to take ss of the menu, but it just cant display it when you launch the game. anyways, good luck on figuring it out.

[YoshQ]

I have this problem too. No music or movies and when I try to load the singleplayer campaign, it says "Unable to read scenario". Halp? I really enjoy the music/movies, and also want to replay the campaign a bit.

 

I'm on Windows 7 as well with the portable version of the game installed. I was unable to apply the patch because it can't find the directory?

 

Button menus are also super messed up. The slider shows up far right of where it's supposed to be on the units, and when I go to change map, there is no "Use Map" button until I click on the cancel button and slide off of it. Then it changes into "Use Map".

Edited by YoshQ, 04 June 2014 - 02:12 PM.

[FReQuEnZy]

I have this problem too. No music or movies and when I try to load the singleplayer campaign, it says "Unable to read scenario". Halp? I really enjoy the music/movies, and also want to replay the campaign a bit.

The portable version doesn't include the single player missions, music or the in game movies.

 

I'm on Windows 7 as well with the portable version of the game installed. I was unable to apply the patch because it can't find the directory?

If the patch can't find the directory then your game installation doesn't have correct registry keys.

 

Button menus are also super messed up. The slider shows up far right of where it's supposed to be on the units, and when I go to change map, there is no "Use Map" button until I click on the cancel button and slide off of it. Then it changes into "Use Map".

You might need to apply windows updates. Update directx as well. Use appropriate compatibility settings.

Compatibility for game executables (all of them).

• Windows 98 / XP
• Disable desktop composition
• Disable Visual Styles
• Disable DPI scaling
• Run as administrator

I also suggest disabling UAC (user account control) before installing the game and while running it. As a final option you can try applying the latest ra2 unofficial patch.

[YoshQ]

Ohh, I didn't know it didn't include that stuff. That's fine though, I still have the disc. So could I just install from the disc over the portable version and not install the internet components or something and it would still work on XWIS? Btw, that text thing fixed the visual errors on my game, thank you so much. (The DPI thing)

[FReQuEnZy]

Just copy movies, maps, theme .mix files from your cd to the game directory, to enable the campaign, in game music and the videos.

[YoshQ]

It worked! Thank you.

[FReQuEnZy]

You will need to copy movies and maps from both cd's btw.