Red Alert 2 black screen FIX 2024

You just installed Red Alert 2 or Yuri’s Revenge on your modern PC, you ran the game and all you got was  a black screen. You can hear the music and when you move the mouse you hear the icons but all you see is darkness?

Well luckily for you I have a few solutions for this problem!

 

The easy fix

First and easiest solution is to download the CnCnet client. It comes with a bunch of automatic fixes, and has a configuration tool which offers more choices in graphics fixes, so if one doesn’t work you can just try if some of the other options do the trick.

The client also provides modern resolutions like 1920×1080 and enables you to play the game online. Truth be told if you’re not interested in the campaigns the cncnet client is the only way to play Red Alert 2 in 2022!

If for whatever reason you don’t want to install the cncnet client you can try some other options. Firstly the graphics system patch DDWrapper is known to solve the “black screen” issue for many people.

Download the zip file and extract “ddraw.dll” and “aqrit.cfg” into your game folder. Then, open the configuration file “aqrit.cfg” in Notepad, change the “ForceDirectDrawEmulation” option to 1, save the file, and the game should work.

Other Red Alert 2 Black screen solutions

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