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[xTwistedFatex]

I've tried everything to fix this darn issue, movies/videos during game show black screen but still have audio and the main menu shows but no animation and it's stuck static, I have to lower the window and bring it back up to refresh it.

I'm using windows 7 home premium 64-bit, and I've tried all compatibility options, turned off UAC, set my battery options to high performance through intel HD panel (Although I have Nvidia GeForce 540M using optimus) and I've tried both "the first decade" and original versions of Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge. I even tried using windows 98 virtual machine which STILL did not fix my issue. I've heard it has something to do with DirectDraw but I can't disable it because windows 7 won't let me. Is there any fix to this at all?

[Seke]

I'm glad you figured out how to post on here. Welcome to strike-team. Hopefully someone here will be able to help you.

[xTwistedFatex]

hahaha how ironic, it's you

[FReQuEnZy]

http://www.dll-files.com/pop.php?dll=ddraw


Download this and copy it to your RA2 folder, where you can find game.exe and ra2.exe.
This might fix it. I'm not 100% sure.

Edited by iNs0MNiaC, 10 September 2011 - 08:00 PM.

[xTwistedFatex]

http://www.dll-files.com/pop.php?dll=ddraw


Download this and copy it to your RA2 folder, where you can find game.exe and ra2.exe.
This might fix it. I'm not 100% sure.

yeah I even tried this fix, however it just makes everything black screen, but still with audio.

To anybody who has the same problem as me, all I can do to help you is share how I dealt with this problem (Cause I know there's scarce information online about it) it's no fix, but what you can do is go to mouse -> pointer options, and turn on the hit ctrl button to show pointer option and use it to refresh the static image of the menus. Also, this worked flawlessly for me, however it was hard to find, Use VMware to emulate windows XP and install red alert 2 in there. (Works with windows 7 64-bit) As to a direct fix for play while using windows 7, I haven't found any...

[FReQuEnZy]

Insert ''videobackbuffer=yes'' into your ra2.ini inside your ra2 folder. Hope this helps a bit.

[xTwistedFatex]

Insert ''videobackbuffer=yes'' into your ra2.ini inside your ra2 folder. Hope this helps a bit.

tried this as well ): doesn't work

[Olaf]

Insert ''videobackbuffer=yes'' into your ra2.ini inside your ra2 folder. Hope this helps a bit.

That's the default...

[xTwistedFatex]

well I'm still having trouble, can nobody help me?

[Olaf]

Contact your computer manufacturer for support.