How to make this work with RA2 / Tiberian Sun?

[daninthemix]

This works amazingly well with Red Alert 1 and C&C, but not the sequels. Are they supported yet?

[FunkyFr3sh]

It should work fine with RA2 / Tiberian Sun.

If you get a "Unable to set video mode" error, that means there are still some compatibility modes enabled and you'll have to disable them.

If you get a "This product requires a 16bit pixel depth" error then it means that windowed mode is still enabled (You can't use the games own windowed mode, you need to use the cnc-ddraw windowed mode instead).

[daninthemix]

Ah brilliant! Just tried it with Red Alert 2 without -win and it worked. The main menu is tiny, but the actual game, and the movies, fill the screen.

Thanks!

[daninthemix]

Sorry one more question - how do I get it working with Tiberian Sun? I have the installed version from here https://cnc-comm.com/tiberian-sun/downloads/the-game/installer but it completely seems to ignore the cnc-ddraw settings ini.

[FunkyFr3sh]

Ah brilliant! Just tried it with Red Alert 2 without -win and it worked. The main menu is tiny, but the actual game, and the movies, fill the screen.

Thanks!

Yeah, the menus (child windows) don't scale yet. It's tricky to get that working in perfection, but it will probably work at some point in a later release.

Sorry one more question - how do I get it working with Tiberian Sun? I have the installed version from here https://cnc-comm.com/tiberian-sun/downloads/the-game/installer but it completely seems to ignore the cnc-ddraw settings ini.

Should work fine, just make sure you don't open the config program after you copied cnc-ddraw into the game folder or otherwise it will override cnc-ddraw with another ddraw.dll.

I will release a new config program for TS soon which is going to have cnc-ddraw in the list as well.

[daninthemix]

Thanks again - that was it, the ddraw kept getting overwritten. I need to run game.exe directly after copying it in.