CnCNet doesn't work with Win95/Win98 compatibility

[Iran]

^As the topic title states.

 

Win95/Win98 compatibility on RA95.exe fixes lag while playing movies and in-game when a map is won/lost, the score screen and map selection screen.

[Nyerguds]

Doesn't cnc-ddraw fix all that too anyway, without needing any compatibility mode?

[Allen508]

The http://redalert1.com/ RA you shouldn't need any compatibility mode at all. If you do cnc-ddraw should fix it. Drop cnc-ddraw into your RA1 folder and turn all of the compatibility modes off.

[Iran]

I am running cnc-ddraw. If I don't have Win95 or Win98 compatibility and I start a new campaign, the following happens:

 

1. Videos take around 10-15 seconds to load

2. Videos sometimes lag a bit

3. After beating the level when the 'Mission accomplished' text is shown the audio begins to crack and/or dely

4. In the score screen the audio stops playing for a bit.

5. In the map selection screen the audio cracks.

 

When I turn Win95/Win98 compatibility on this doesn't happen.

 

edit: I'm running Windows 7 64-bit.

[Nyerguds]

Sooo.... only use compat mode when not playing on cncnet then?

[pichorra]

use cnc-ddraw. I'm sure that you are not using it.

 

http://hifi.iki.fi/cnc-ddraw/

 

 

[Iran]

....I just said I'm using cnc-ddraw, wow.

 

Nyerguds: That would work fine for me but I doubt the average person who plays Red Alert knows how to do this.

[Tore]

On my end the cutscene issues where resolved when I set singlecpu to false.

[Iran]

The behavior is slightly different with Single CPU off, but the issues still occur. At least for me.

 

edit: Oh I disabled the cnc-ddraw option but the single CPU affinity was still set, the issue is fixed after disabling the affinity.

[Nyerguds]

...huh? That makes no sense. That's an option OF cnc-ddraw. Without cnc-ddraw, that option doesn't even work.

[Iran]

Uhm, if you set the affinity with Task Manager you can set the game to only use one CPU.

[Nyerguds]

Ah, ok. Your post made it seem like you used the single CPU option in ddraw.ini. Is there a compatibility option for running on one core now?

[Iran]

It can be set with the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit apparently, but I need to set multiCPU via Windows Task Manager every time I start the game, for some reason it starts in singleCPU mode every time.

 

edit: Oh it's because of a compatibility fix on ra95.exe system-wide to force single cpu -.-, fixed it now.

[Nyerguds]

Ah, yes indeed. Win95/98 compat mode seems to force single-cpu.

[pichorra]

Here we go again...

 

Well, Yes, Windows 98/ME compatibility force the application to use always one core. But it somehow differs Win95 compat mode in mouse handling.

 

cnc-ddraw singlecpu isn't enabled by default due problems with old Pentium 4 with Hyper-threading Technology. If it is enabled the game with use the half of an core, and simple lag everything. I confirm it, since my main computer is a Pentium 4 

 

[Nyerguds]

Long story short: it's all Pichorra's fault