captain_fluffy

I finally found the answer. For some reason the ddraw.dll file kept disappearing when CNCNET was launched. After I kept pasting it into the RA2 directory, it finally started to stay, and is now not getting deleted upon launch. Weird, but it now works.

So I downloaded the ultimate collection from Origin, launched RA2 and got the old black screen with sound and only a mouse cursor. I then applied the ddwrapper fix by copying ddraw.dll and aqrit.cfg into the RA2 folder and changing ForceDirectDrawEmulation to "=1" and the game started to work fine. Then I wanted to play campaign coop with my friend, so I downloaded and installed CNCNET and it's now giving me the black screen again. I found that ddraw.dll and aqrit.cfg were both missing so I put them back in (complete with ForceDirectDrawEmulation to "=1") and it' still doesn't work. I've tried as many settings as I can think of in CNCNET to get it to work and it still only gives the black screen of wump wump. Can anyone help me get the game working again? Cheers