Well Ra95 is known for alot of bugs and this is one of them on newer OS what i suggest is this but its a shot. It might work it might not. Go to your RedAlert Folder and highlight everything in folder/right click properties/compatibility tab and run it as win xp. I see what you said about what happens when its on xp but when your running Ra95 it needs to be on compatibility xp. And if that fails try a uninstall reboot and reinstall and set compatability to win xp and see what happens but hey its a shot in the dark every computer reacts differently to older games hope the best of luck... leave feedback plz