So irritating cant take the cursor dissappearing

[Vancer2]

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?

[FunkyFr3sh]

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

[Vancer2]

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 :]

[FunkyFr3sh]

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

[Vancer2]

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

[FunkyFr3sh]

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/

[Allen508]

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

[Vancer2]

can i copu my mixes and my rules .ini over into it?

[ROB]

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?

[Allen508]

Has any one tired running in windowed mode?

[pichorra]

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.

[ROB]

Disabling ddraw would cause stability issues with newer platforms, would it not?

 

[pichorra]

Disabling ddraw would cause stability issues with newer platforms, would it not?

 

 

Yes. That's why i'm saying to enable compatibility mode. 

[Nyerguds]

Yeah, if you disable cnc-ddraw, you need to enable compat mode and the DirectX colour fix.