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First, right click on Desktop and select Screen Resolution.

Click Detect (with no additional monitor connected).

Next to your main display, there’ll be a grey square (the unplugged second display) that sayd «Another display not detected».

Select the unplugged monitor button anyway.

Under «Multiple displays» it will say «No display detected».

Set the option to «Try to connect anyway on: VGA».

Select your main display, and set «Multiple displays» to «Extend these displays», finally apply the changes.

We’re done with the screen resolution menu.

Open the Intel HD Graphics Settings, check the Advanced Mode.

Go to the energy options and set it to maximun performance.

Save your changes.

Start Red Alert 2, Yuri’s Revenge, or Tiberian Sun, menus and videos should work properly now.

Run this program before starting the game. It will resident in the background and forces the DDraw driver to flush primary DDraw surface into VRAM.

After the game, you can press Ctrl+C or simply click the X in the upper right corner to close it.

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I rebuilt this utility using mingw-w64-g++ statically. It should no longer ask for new versions of MSVC*.DLL, nor should it ask for libstdc++*.dll.

Since libstdc++ is LGPL’d, the built .exe file is also LGPL’d. But source.cpp is in the public domain.

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http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5555

And gamemd.exe patch with NPAEExt have some problems using Machine’s method. It loads fine, but then the game closes after the loading screen, didn’t even get to the menu. Any idea?

this isn’t working I can’t apply the extended display as it makes it so that I can’t see anything on my desktop

Make sure you set the main desktop (the left one) first before you hit apply, or it sets the main desktop off-screen, meaning it has none of your icons.

This works like a charm, but even after this, it still seems to run better on any other OS.

Note: I don’t know about other graphic processors, but I’m guessing they’re quite similar. You just have to find that out yourself.

Probably not gonna help much, considering that this issue mostly plagues machines that only have (Intel) CPU with integrated GPU and no separate graphics card. I suppose it might work better than the other solution for those that do have a separate one, though, since the solution in first post has some minor, non-critical side effects.

Edit: Also, it can take an adventure video mode at 16 bit color. In Windows8 it can be done in a setting compatibility ra2md.exe.

The Menu fix by LH_Mouse fixed the «tick» and slider problems, but unfortunaely made everything else not update properly instead..

I tried the DDraw.dll_for_menu_bug fix by glukv48, but it didn’t work (or i don’t know if it did, because i wasn’t able to launch the game at all when using it)

I also tried the fix by Machine and it fixed the problem, but seeing as it could screw up other things and the fact that the right side of my screen is now «borderless» (aka. Hey! Where did the cursor go?! D, i don’t really like to use it.

Now, i was wondering 4 things:

1. Does anyone know of any other «fix»?

2. Would it be possible to make a program/script that does the changes suggested by Machine, but that «resets» to the previous settings when the game and/or the program/script is exited?

3. Is anyone here having similar problems specifically with TDoTTA? Any fixes? Anything? (C&C1 and RA works fine, TS needed a little DDraw thingie called «TS Win8 Fix», but when trying it with TDoTTA, the makers of the mod have made it automatically delete the DDraw dll, saying something about it causing problems, so it didnt work either.)

4. @glukv48: Does this, «Just unzip the files in a folder with the game.» mean that i should extraxt it to a folder inside the main folder of the actual game? or does it mean that i should just extract the files directly to the main folder of the game?

I did the first one and as i said before, it made it not launch at all. (I did ofc make sure that i made the neccesary changes to the bat file first)

Thanks for any answers!

Side-note: The reason why i’m asking if there is another fix is because of th reasons i mentioned earlier (The «anxiety» i feel when using that «fix» is greater than the «calmness» i feel from having fun with playing the mod, so i’m probably gonna «ditch» this mod if there is no other fix (at least until there is a fix from them, if there ever will be.)

I’m not new to C&C or computers in general, i am totally new to C&C Mods/modding though. I’m not much for programming either (Not that i can’t, i’ve just never learned to program anything really). Oh..and as you probably have figured out already, i do indeed have an integrated Intel GPU.

EDIT/ADD: If anyone needs any additional information or clarification from me, just ask. :3

EDIT/ADD2: *Cough*

EDIT/ADD3: I apperantly do have a second Graphics card, a Radeon HD 6770 M (How the hell did i forget about that?!), anyway, i tried doing the fix suggested by Krow involving preferred GProcessor (as much as i could), but that did unfortunaely not work. >:

EDIT: I made a set specifically for this mod. Try.

EDIT 2: If you do not understand in what folder to unpack, look at a screenshot.

Thanks!

Movies doesn’t work now and it’s a bit slow in the menues, + i can’t use the DTA Launcher (According to the makers of DTA, the disable ddraw thingie is not compatible with DTA and deletes it, but if i for some reason need to use the launcher, i just extract that dll to there again afterwards, lol), but those are (at most) minor annoyances.

Thanks a bunch!

(I guess i did it wrong the first time then, i should have just extracted it all to the DTA folder instead of extracting it to a folder inside the DTA folder)

EDIT: Huh, now movies work and its not slow + the launcher doesnt say anything about ddraw. lolwut. It still works though

EDIT2: And now the launcher complains about ddraw again. But i looked at the bat and saw that it copies the ddraw.dll to the folder everytime, so know i understand that i dont need to worry about ddraw being deleted, as long as i use your bat to start the game! Thanks again!

(I wonder why the makers of the mod says its not compatible though O.o)

In Windows 7,  Control Panel -> Display -> Text size has 3 options

Smaller — 100% (Default), Medium — 125% and Large 150%

Setting it to say Medium causes out of place scroller in options menu and button goes invisible in skirmish

map selection etc. in RA2/YR. Setting it to Smaller — 100% (Default) shows it properly.

Right click (game.exe, ra2.exe) > Properties > Compatiblity > Disable display scaling on high DPI settings.

Compatibility setting doesn’t work for me, tried for all the 4 exe files — ra2(md).exe/game(md).exe.

Exe doesn’t run at all. But there is no problem when it is set back to 100% dpi.

On 125% dpi, buttons, slider etc. are misplaced. On skirmish map selection, random button works as map

selection button. Random map fuctionionality is gone as the 2nd button dissappears, that is the only thing

I miss which anyhow I don’t use it much.

Not too sure if it’s possible to edit this with a resource hacker, eg : ResHacker, ResEdit.

Answered it myself — thanks