kurtwism Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 Hi, I just installed Red Alert 1 on my laptop (Windows 7 32-bit) using DosBox...Everything went smoothly except that when I try to actually run the game I get the following message; 'Error - unable to set video mode' I have set RA95 compatibility to win95 and tried installing the 3.03patch off of this site but nothing works... Any ideas? Thanks. BTW the laptop is a Fujitsu Amilo Pro V3515. Only upgrade is a Crucial 128GB SSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen262 Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 Your more likely to have better luck with the Red Alert 1 that http://redalert1.com/ has. It is made to work on Win 7 with out doing any work at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolutionary Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 Compatibility mode AND run as Admin fixes most problems on Vista and 7 (and very possibly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen262 Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 Also check marking Disable Desktop Composition may help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 That specific error is just caused by the 640x400 resolution though. Open rasetup.exe and switch to 640x480. Rather than using compatibility mode, though, I advise using cnc-ddraw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pichorra Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Windows 7 build-in drivers come wihout OpenGL. If you are trying to run it with DDraw and you are failing, You have to download it directly from the manufacturer. But if you are running wihout ddraw, then get it and give a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConquerorRhino Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Well maybe you are playing at high resolution ,do this: 1. Go to ddraw.ini and find... width- heigth- change the values to 0 2.find windowed mode and this it must be answered into false ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you still having problem... Go to redalert.ini And find the... resolution- then change amount of it to 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConquerorRhino Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Well maybe you are playing at high resolution ,do this: 1. Go to ddraw.ini and find... width- heigth- change the values to 0 2.find windowed mode and this it must be answered into false ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you still having problem... Go to redalert.ini And find the... resolution- then change amount of it to 0 I HOPE YOU'LL MADE IT!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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