Vancer2 Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Theres nothing more annoying that the feeling of me having a good game and then *bloop* the cursor disappears and i have to alt f4. Is there any way to fix this. I read in a post earlier that its a DDraw error. But is there a way to fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 FunkyFr3sh Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Not sure if its a ddraw error, it happens without ddraw too... might be that the chances are higher when u use ddraw go to the config and disable CnC-DDraw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vancer2 Posted April 29, 2013 Author Share Posted April 29, 2013 do i have to go into the ddraw.ini and set enable RA/CNC95 Mousehack to false inorder to turn it off. Im not really using the new Red alert 95 :] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 FunkyFr3sh Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 nope, open the config tool aka RedAlertConfig.exe and go to video options, uncheck CnC-DDraw What kind of red alert are you using ? In case you don't have the config tool, here's an patch to update your installation: http://cnc-comm.com/community/index.php?topic=1918.0 that might also solve the cursor problem since a patch regarding this problem has been added in there too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vancer2 Posted April 29, 2013 Author Share Posted April 29, 2013 i have 2.00 because i have modded mine with new units and tech trees :] basically it looks like cnc td but with a ra 95 twist but im worried about losing everything if i were to update as its all i have I even copied the original TD SAM attack animations to RA95 which was thought impossible :] but i proved them wrong :DDDDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 FunkyFr3sh Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 oh noes! Why don't you play Red Dawn did you modify the ra95.exe too ? if not, then just go ahead and use the 3.03 ra95.exe (.dat) you can find a patch for it here (ra303_fix_cursor_bug_v2.exe) http://hifi.iki.fi/cnc/ra/patches/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Allen262 Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Red Dawn is full stand alone meaning it dosn't use or need Red Alert 1. It also has 95%+ of C&C95 units and building converted to RA1. Red Dawn Thread. http://cnc-comm.com/community/index.php?topic=1588.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Vancer2 Posted April 29, 2013 Author Share Posted April 29, 2013 can i copu my mixes and my rules .ini over into it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ROB Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 So the cursor disappearing is normal then... guess there are bound to be hiccups. Kinda a buzzkill after an hour skirmish. Possible to fix or something we must deal with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Allen262 Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 Has any one tired running in windowed mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 pichorra Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 If you are going to disable CnC-DDraw, I suggest you to enable Windows 98 compatibility mode in the main game executable (ra95.exe), and take a read in this thread. DirectDraw have serious issues with multi-core computers, and enabling this compatibility mode will automatically set the game yo only use one core. Note that in Windows 8, I would recommend you to simple Install the Optative DirectX 9.0c components in order to get a better directdraw support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ROB Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 Disabling ddraw would cause stability issues with newer platforms, would it not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 pichorra Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 Disabling ddraw would cause stability issues with newer platforms, would it not? Yes. That's why i'm saying to enable compatibility mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Nyerguds Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 Yeah, if you disable cnc-ddraw, you need to enable compat mode and the DirectX colour fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Theres nothing more annoying that the feeling of me having a good game and then *bloop* the cursor disappears and i have to alt f4. Is there any way to fix this. I read in a post earlier that its a DDraw error. But is there a way to fix it?
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