How to make Win8 smoothly compatible with Red Alert 2

Everyone knows that XP system is very good for game compatibility, but since XP system was abandoned by Microsoft, everyone used Vista, Win7 or Win8, Vista and Win7. Regardless of 32-bit or 64-bit, as long as your computer is desktop and assembled, the MSDN original system is installed normally, and the Red Alert 2 resource is installed. It can run smoothly without any settings, but it becomes troublesome to Win8. Because Microsoft removed the 16-bit color from Win8, it caused Red Alert 2 to be difficult to be compatible under Win8 normal state.

Although we have reserved a mode in which a program is reduced to 16-bit color, we only need to select the red alarm 2, right-click property, and then check the simplified color mode to select the 16-bit color run, but everyone should pay attention to This is a 16-bit color that is simplified by 32 bits. It runs in analog mode. The effect can be imagined: less than 5 frames.
Check the simplified color mode, select 16-bit color to run

Play Red Alert 2 Once the mouse pointer is in animated form, there will be a noticeable pause. Once the mouse pointer is animated, there will be a noticeable pause. In this case, we can use the VideoBackBuffer statement to make the same effect under the full screen. There is also a Microsoft KB2756872 patch that solves the problem of the mouse pointer. Now the best effect of Win8 can be significantly stronger than the speed under Win7, that is, you can play cool red alarm 2.

There is also a way to make Win8 compatible with Red Alert 2, which can be set as follows:

1. Windowing (recommended, otherwise it may be black when switching between game and desktop) ). RA2 right-attribute - add “ (space) -win” after the path in the target.
Window setting, plus (space) -win

2. Reduce to 16-bit color (required).

3. Find RA2.ini in the RA2 directory, Yuri revenge is RA2MD.ini, open to find [Video], add: VideoBackBuffer=no (required) AllowHiResModes=yes (recommended) AllowVRAMSidebar=no (recommended ).

4. Microsoft KB2756872 (required), this will install Win8 will definitely search for themselves. After completing the above steps, Red Alert 2 will run perfectly.

The above 4 steps solve the problem that the Red Alert 2 is not compatible enough under Win8. After the operation is completed, the Red Alert 2 game will be restarted. You will find that the problem of playing the Red Alert 2 will disappear completely. The entire game screen has no card screen, very smooth, no less than Vista and Win7, I believe this tutorial is undoubtedly very useful for the majority of Red Alert 2 fans.