CnCNet works perfectly with the Origin version of the game - no black-screen or psychedelic colors, no freezing thirty minutes into the game, can even get it to run in windowed mode through the client without Windows throwing a hissy-fit about color modes.
Only problem is, it only lets me play skirmish or multiplayer modes. Sure, I've spent a lot more time with those, but once in a while I'd like to play the campaign; I don't recall ever personally completing more than one mission .
Now, I've already got that ddraw.dll fix going, and for Red Alert 2 it runs damn-near perfectly as well, I just replayed a pair of Soviet missions with it. But so much as having ddraw.dll in the game's folder makes Yuri's Revenge crash on startup with a "Main executable for Yuri's Revenge has stopped working" popup (although I suppose that's a step up from YR just refusing to acknowledge them, or causing the same issues for different reasons no matter what I change). Worse thing is, if I don't have it there, I universally get just a black screen when I try to run the game on its own. I've even tried copying ts-ddraw.dll out of CnCNet's Resources folder and into the main folder, and the game seemed perfectly content to ignore it.
The gist of it is, how do I run the game with CnCNet's improvements without using CnCNet's launcher? Is there something else I need to do to get the game to acknowledge ts-ddraw, or do I need to do something else entirely?
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Kadorhal
CnCNet works perfectly with the Origin version of the game - no black-screen or psychedelic colors, no freezing thirty minutes into the game, can even get it to run in windowed mode through the client without Windows throwing a hissy-fit about color modes.
Only problem is, it only lets me play skirmish or multiplayer modes. Sure, I've spent a lot more time with those, but once in a while I'd like to play the campaign; I don't recall ever personally completing more than one mission .
Now, I've already got that ddraw.dll fix going, and for Red Alert 2 it runs damn-near perfectly as well, I just replayed a pair of Soviet missions with it. But so much as having ddraw.dll in the game's folder makes Yuri's Revenge crash on startup with a "Main executable for Yuri's Revenge has stopped working" popup (although I suppose that's a step up from YR just refusing to acknowledge them, or causing the same issues for different reasons no matter what I change). Worse thing is, if I don't have it there, I universally get just a black screen when I try to run the game on its own. I've even tried copying ts-ddraw.dll out of CnCNet's Resources folder and into the main folder, and the game seemed perfectly content to ignore it.
The gist of it is, how do I run the game with CnCNet's improvements without using CnCNet's launcher? Is there something else I need to do to get the game to acknowledge ts-ddraw, or do I need to do something else entirely?
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