Red Alert and CnC Gold campaigns not launching atall

[Fullmetaljacket1991]

Hi all, I have downloaded CnC gold and Red alert 1 from cnc net, both work online and skirmish perfectly yet when i install and to try to run the main campaign, it says couldn't launch main executable, am hugely gutted as an avid fan of the series, any suggestions please ? 

UPDATE 

I deleted ddraw.dll in the properties folder, campaign works but lags then when i alt tab it out the window is stuck and i can hear the game just no picture proper annoying now !

Running this on

HP Pavilion notebook

2GB RAM

30GB HDD

HD graphics internal up to 1028MB 

Windows 8.1 

cheers 

 

 

Edited June 19, 2018 by Fullmetaljacket1991
update

[FunkyFr3sh]

Enable cnc-ddraw (or GDI renderer) in the config program again and make sure there are no compatibility modes enabled for any of the game executables.