Command and Conquer Ultimate Collection - no video [ Edited ]

[king_pem_pem]

Hello,

Who among you had installed the Command and Conquer Ultimate Collection in my Windows PC?

I'm having some technical problems when running the Yuri's Revenge or Red Alert 2.

It's running with audio but without video. Did anybody experienced the same issue?

Hoping someone could share their experience and resolution what they did.

Thank you!

[Nyerguds · Accepted solution]

@king_pem_pem 

It's actually a very common issue; search around here for "red alert 2 black screen" and you'd get dozens of results.

There are a whole bunch of community patches that got made for the first four games. Here's a list of all of them:

Command & Conquer 1:

• Nyerguds' C&C95 v1.06c revision 3 patch (which also adds bonus missions originally exclusive to the Playstation and Nintendo 64 versions of the game)
  Note that this patch fixes two quite common and completely fatal game crashes (top-of-map reconnaissance crash, stealth crash), so installing it is strongly advised.

Red Alert 1:

• Funkyfr3sh's automatic Red Alert 1 patcher/installer (The thread also has briefing videos for the expansion missions, converted from the Playstation version of the game)
• Nyerguds' main.mix cleanup for TFD/TUC (Not really needed, but cleans up about a gigabyte of unnecessary files in the RA1 folder. Unpack in the game folder, run "patch_main.bat", let it finish, and then delete the files you extracted.)

Tiberian Sun:

• Funkyfr3sh's Tiberian Sun patch

Red Alert 2:

• The graphics system patch DDWrapper is known to solve a multitude of graphics problems, including the "black screen" issue.
  Download the zip file and extract "ddraw.dll" and "aqrit.cfg" into your game folder. Then, open the configuration file "aqrit.cfg" in Notepad, change the "ForceDirectDrawEmulation" option to 1, save the file, and try running the game again.
• If you still have problems with RA2 even after this, I advise installing 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 more choices in graphics fixes than just DDWrapper, so if one doesn't work you can just try if some of the other options do the trick.

[Nyerguds · Accepted solution]

@king_pem_pem 

It's actually a very common issue; search around here for "red alert 2 black screen" and you'd get dozens of results.

There are a whole bunch of community patches that got made for the first four games. Here's a list of all of them:

Command & Conquer 1:

• Nyerguds' C&C95 v1.06c revision 3 patch (which also adds bonus missions originally exclusive to the Playstation and Nintendo 64 versions of the game)
  Note that this patch fixes two quite common and completely fatal game crashes (top-of-map reconnaissance crash, stealth crash), so installing it is strongly advised.

Red Alert 1:

• Funkyfr3sh's automatic Red Alert 1 patcher/installer (The thread also has briefing videos for the expansion missions, converted from the Playstation version of the game)
• Nyerguds' main.mix cleanup for TFD/TUC (Not really needed, but cleans up about a gigabyte of unnecessary files in the RA1 folder. Unpack in the game folder, run "patch_main.bat", let it finish, and then delete the files you extracted.)

Tiberian Sun:

• Funkyfr3sh's Tiberian Sun patch

Red Alert 2:

• The graphics system patch DDWrapper is known to solve a multitude of graphics problems, including the "black screen" issue.
  Download the zip file and extract "ddraw.dll" and "aqrit.cfg" into your game folder. Then, open the configuration file "aqrit.cfg" in Notepad, change the "ForceDirectDrawEmulation" option to 1, save the file, and try running the game again.
• If you still have problems with RA2 even after this, I advise installing 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 more choices in graphics fixes than just DDWrapper, so if one doesn't work you can just try if some of the other options do the trick.

[king_pem_pem]

Hi Nyerguds,

Thank you and it worked but unfortunately it gets minimized during the middle of the game. When I try to get back, I don't see any visuals of the game but my zoomed desktop instead. Hoping you could help again. Thank you in advance.

[Nyerguds]

@king_pem_pem 

I think the cncnet package has safeguards against that problem... in fact it has several options on what to use for the graphics handling.

It it doesn't solve your issues, another viable solution is to enable windowed mode:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/C-C-The-Ultimate-Collection/C-amp-C-ultimate-collection-Red-Alert-2-wont-s...

This does mean you're stuck with viewing the graphics in their original size, without any possibility to upscale them.