Well after getting my friend who builds computers and websites to teamview and try and sort it I sent him every link I have been given and he couldn't get it to work only as far as a blurred picture with no tabs but if you fished around you could hear the mouse clicking on tabs but couldn't see them. No reply from EA so I have decided to download it if that will work on windows 10 yet when I try it takes me to Yuri's revenge add on and then says I don't have red alert 2 installed so I can't proceed with instalation? googled and the suggestions about compatibility mode with windows 7 (tried with all exes), install outside program files.

I got both when it was given free and then bought the 17 c&c pack. The rewrite has a simpler organiztion, less features, and is incapable of zooming.It's ridiculous that EA sells the game on origin and still can't work. The difference is that Wine developers are not focused on introducing custom features and specializing on the old DDraw interface, but rather on improving the compatibility of new DirectX versions just enough to have the newer games work.ĬnCNet also has a rewrite of CnC-DDraw specifically targeting Tiberian Sun called ts-ddraw. Prior to the introduction of CnC-DDraw, it was common to use WineD3D, the DirectX-to-OpenGL translator found in Wine, a program for running Windows apps on non-Windows systems. It also allows for loading custom glsl shaders for features such as Smooth upscaling. The CnC-DDraw dll then displays the graphics on a graphics surface which uses either GDI software rendering, OpenGL, or Direct3D 9.īesides the fixing of palette-related bugs, CnC-DDraw also contains options that allow extra game features like windowed mode, stretching of the game surface to custom resolutions, and frame rate limiting. Some of the bugs are especially atrocious in newer Windows builds, with Windows Vista and Windows 7 unable to use windowed mode properly and Windows 8/Windows 10 showing a black screen altogether.ĬnC-DDraw gets around these bugs by means of a ddraw.dll file put in the game folder, which then receives and handles all graphics output from the game instead of the real DirectDraw system. One of the most notable problems is the fact the 256-color palette of the game is corrupted by the Windows desktop by replacing the first and last eight colors of the palette by those of the standard Windows 16-color palette.

The abandonment of these features in later updates of DirectX caused several bugs in older games. The DirectDraw full-screen 256-color mode is subject to numerous bugs, mostly caused by the fact programmers were tempted to use undocumented and therefore technically unsupported features of the DirectDraw system.

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