Win8.1 play red police 2 black screen solution

Red Alert 2 is a classic game that is a great memory for many users in the XP era. However, after upgrading to Win8.1 system, I found that playing Red Alert 2 will have a black screen, which makes game lovers very annoyed. How to solve it?

According to most users, after opening the game in Window8.1 64-bit, sometimes there is a sound, sometimes there is no sound, but it is always in a black screen state and cannot be exited.

Solution

1. Right-click on the game program or shortcut.

2. Click on "Compatibility" to choose to run this program in compatibility mode and select “window xp service pack 3” from the drop down menu.

3. Check to run this program as an administrator.

4. Click on Apply and then click OK.

5. Start the program and check if it is black.

By using the compatibility mode feature of Win8, basically we can start the program that runs perfectly on the old system. If there is still a black screen, then it is recommended to refer to the "How to make Win8 smoothly compatible with Red Alert 2" tutorial to solve it in other ways.