SPQR-Caligula Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Can you suggest a fix ?, please!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pichorra Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Try this: http://cnc-comm.com/community/index.php?topic=1770.0 if fails, Try VMWare, If it fails too, sorry, but you are out of luck we really need to port the DirectDraw 7 to OpenGL to fix it. We need someone with good GDI+ Emulating skills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tore Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 if fails, Try VMWare, If it fails too, sorry, but you are out of luck Or VirtualBox which is free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPQR-Caligula Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I downloaded Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.1.8-75467.vbox-extpack but I cant install it as it says unknown extension does anyone know how I install it ?. I had an hour long screen sharing session with a Dell technician yesterday to try to fix this issue, hes going to look in to it, I am managing to play just by minimising to windows to get through the menu options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pichorra Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Why you Downloaded the Linux build in a Windows machine? Get this one! http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.8/VirtualBox-4.1.8-75467-Win.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPQR-Caligula Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 The virtual box did not work, is it just the NVIDIA cards that have the incompatible chipset and does anyone know if it is all the NVIDIA cards or just some if so does anyone know which chipset or cards as I will most likely buy another computer to play TS on and I don’t want to buy another incompatible laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh4d0w_7 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Sorry for bad english. I have laptop and windows7, if for you dont work power mng soliution set to high performance, try this: 1. run "tiberian sun" in windowed mode, just create shortcut with "-win" key, key must be in the end after double quotes examples: "path_to_game.../game.exe -win" 2. run it, then you select some menu will see grey bar, now you need just refresh game window, just draggame window a little bit. yes its annoying :ranting: but better then nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 -win? But that only works on 16-bit colours :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh4d0w_7 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 -win? But that only works on 16-bit colours :| Yes its works on 16bit, this is a price if you have laptop and radeon video card :down: (i think is reason for problem) at home i use one of linux distribution, so c&c working normal (using "wine") i will try search for workaround 16bit later, if its possible, now i dont have time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolutionary Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 It isn't to do with the graphics card, i have upgraded from a MSI (nividia) Card to a Radeon (Amd) and the problem is present on both and my atom netbook. Colour depth is the problem and the only viable solution is to either force the window TS is running in to use 16bit colour (which i don't know how it would be possible) or to simply run everything in 16bit colour. The Colour depth handling is a problem with windows [xp?] vista and above. wine emulates the required environment so will be emulating 16bit colours for TS within the window eliminating any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tore Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 It isn't to do with the graphics card, i have upgraded from a MSI (nividia) Card to a Radeon (Amd) and the problem is present on both and my atom netbook. It should be obvious when a fix is to disable DirectDraw acceleration on computers that allow that (That's what the ddraw.dll that floated around did). TS problems seem to be concentrated on mobile GPUs, but some desktop GPUs suffer as well. TS runs fine on my desktops Radeon and my netbooks GMA, but not my laptops GeForce. Though the issues are no consistent with a particular brand of GPU since all brands seem to have GPUs that TS doesn't like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh4d0w_7 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 It isn't to do with the graphics card... Low price or integrated card only for desktop. p.s. MSI (comp), Radeon (card) :down: (its only my opinion and experience) Colour depth is not problem, you can change your desktop to 16bit on win xp, w7 (dont know about vista, but theoretically it can) Wine emulate everything (almost), TS working because its translate directx to opengl It should be obvious when a fix is to disable DirectDraw acceleration on computers that allow that. Hmm ..., i can disabe DD on W7, so we need new game launcher to emulate DD=disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PawnSlayer Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Hi guys, this may be my first post here, but I assure you, it's legit. I've been having the same problem, which has rather interfered with my quest to complete all missions of all games in the series in Hard Mode (where available). It turns out, the problem is to do with the refresh rate of Win 7. This explains why minimising and then maximising again the game window causes the menus to show up again. The solution is to create a dummy second screen, even if you don't actually have one. By running the game from a fake second screen, extended onto the first, it works. I also hear this solution works for problems with Red Alert 2 on TFD on Win 7. http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/7223/tutorialcopy.jpg Note that this originally came from the C&C forums, here: http://www.commandandconquer.com/forums/showthread.php?1600-DX-problems-with-ra2-yr-and-tsun-on-Windows-7 (the second last post by user Weiss specifically). It's the only confirmed solution I've found that doesn't involve a virtual machine. I'm using an Asus N55F with Win 7 64 bit, the direct x solution didn't work and I can't disable Direct Draw on it. One last thing - this solution works for both the standard TFD installation of the game, and the direct installation package that's pre-patched for Win 7 play. Hope this helps people experiencing the same problem as me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 One last thing - this solution works for both the standard TFD installation of the game, and the direct installation package that's pre-patched for Win 7 play. Obviously. They're exactly the same thing Anyway, thanks for this! It'll be really useful for people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tore Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 This could help as well: http://www.stuffhost.de/files/cnc/CnCPatcher.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SappYoda Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Hello everyone, I just registered on this forum to share this with you. After months and months of trying to find the solution for those who have issues with direct draw (aka screen freezes), I finally found it: - Right click on desktop->screen resolution - Click the Detect button. Unconnected screens will appear. - Extend desktop to a VGA connection on the Intel GPU - Drag the 2nd screen to the corner of the primary screen so the mouse boundaries of the primary screen will remain (almost) the same. - Click OK/Apply Thanks to http://communities.intel.com/message/147706#147706 This issue seems to affect those who have laptops with switchable graphics. BTW: Registration questions are awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 I believe that's exactly what PawnSlayer just linked to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SappYoda Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 I believe that's exactly what PawnSlayer just linked to Shame on me... Well at last I can confirm it works Also, the latest version of intel HD drivers finally fixed this issue: http://communities.intel.com/message/159195#159195 But those drivers don't work with switchable graphics so I still need to use PawnSlayer fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPQR-Caligula Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I have found a fix for this problem, I have spoken to two Dell representatives and search the whole internet for three years to find this fix so you could imagine my disappointment when I got to this website and found it harder to log in or reregister than to get in to any of my on line bank accounts, whats with all the security C&C its not helping keeping the old games going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 It keeps spambots out. We've had real problems with those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunkyFr3sh Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 On 9/7/2012 at 10:09 PM, SPQR-Caligula said: I have found a fix for this problem, I have spoken to two Dell representatives and search the whole internet for three years to find this fix so you could imagine my disappointment when I got to this website and found it harder to log in or reregister than to get in to any of my on line bank accounts, whats with all the security C&C its not helping keeping the old games going. true, i remember when I registered here and couldn't answer the question (it was a different one back then) I just rage quit after few failed attempts and then like a week or so later I decided to try again and after some google search i could answer it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPQR-Caligula Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 I just read the post 3 above and that’s how I have done it to I connected a second monitor to the laptop vga out socket and have a clone display, it stops the gray bar problem on both displays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PawnSlayer Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 Hi, it's me again, unfortunately I'm now having an issue with my own solution and cannot for the life of me think how this is or what I can do to fix it! I can get to the point where I need to select "extend displays" this is all well and good except that the screen I actually see is the blank second screen, and I have no way of pulling things across so I can see the screen resolution update window to fix anything. I'm sure I never had this before, but it is the same computer. Can anyone please help? EDIT: Nearly had a heart attack when I managed to somehow restrict myself ONLY to the second desktop - and thus couldn't revert because everything turned up on the other, including the task bar and everything when pressing Cntrl-Alt-Del. Somehow managed to get it sorted in the Windows Controller Debugging version of safe mode, and on trying it again (I'm insane, I know) it's worked. Strange, that... Also, this solution should work for C&C Ultimate Collection games - it's a lie that they've been updated for Windows 7, it's actually the exact same version as all the others with all the same problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skirmish Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Another temporary solution: This issue has irritated me for years as this is a game I loved since it came. As few of you have already said, it seem to be related to graphics. I tried direct draw patch, graphics patch, setting power to high performance etc. but nothing worked. Then I accidentally found a solution for the gray bar. I have a HP dv7t which has HP on-screen display feature for sound, touch pad enable/disable etc. so when the gray bar appears, all I had to do was to press some key to get the on-screen display show something. Hope this helps someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaidiTheory Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I want to say thanks to you guys, I fixed my TS menu glitch base on your replies and my tutorial was based on your replies too Thank you and Thanks to CnC-Comm You are the best keep it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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