ross13 Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 are the ones up for grabs with the installer 3.0+ better than the original movies from a cd? coz i installed my red alert using alleged original disc's that ive downloaded off a torrent and the movie seems a bit blurry, i know that its an old game but seeing as EA has released it for freeware and some people have already made adjustments to it like compatibility and such perhaps they have also made adjustments to the movie files say tweak them to be more up to date like a bit more watchable? because if it is, i will be redownloading the whole game but if not then guess i'll still to what i have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunkyFr3sh Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 the videos files are still the same, but they still look better in the 3.0+ installer cause of the newly added deinterlace i added some pictures so you can compare you dont need to redownload the game btw, choose the folder of your current installation in the installer and choose "patch existing version" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen262 Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Must be simthing to do with the hires patch. The old pre-patch RA1 looks like the installer-version.png... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunkyFr3sh Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 nope, old one has these scanlines, try it out view the picture fullscreen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen262 Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 The scanlines arn't that bad but the videos over all are are more blurry. Maybe it is my old PC. :-\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iran Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Actually original-red-alert.png isn't deinterlace, it's missing .VQP palettes. It looks like it's interlacing horizontal and vertically, while the original game only does it horizontally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunkyFr3sh Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 On 2/14/2013 at 8:00 AM, Iran said: Actually original-red-alert.png isn't deinterlace, it's missing .VQP palettes. It looks like it's interlacing horizontal and vertically, while the original game only does it horizontally. right, i was using the wrong file updated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen262 Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Looks more like what I seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross13 Posted February 16, 2013 Author Share Posted February 16, 2013 tnx for the info..the improvement is a great help, such a shame we cant get these in better videos...coz it seems to me the newer versions of red alert had a decline in their quality of videos, like they shot it in some random basement, atleast the old red alert videos gave you a more militaristic feel to it like your in a real war something that was lost to me especially in RA3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunkyFr3sh Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 you can enable/disable "deinterlace videos" in the options i think they wanted to release the videos in a better quality back then, but they never did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iran Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Yeah they wanted them to release them as MPEG-2 (which I think is also used for DVDs) for a DVD version of Red Alert, but they never did. Westwood announced they would release older and new games on DVDs with improved video quality, but they never did. See: http://www.cncworld.org/wwr/infodir/news/prdvd.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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