If you’ve just installed Red Alert 3 on Windows 7 then you may be presented with a simple black screen on startup, that just freezes there.
- Navigate to the Data folder, ie. C:/Program Files/Electronic Arts/Red Alert 3/Data
- Rename the Movies folder to “Movies.renamed”
- Start up the game
- Set your resolution to the same as your desktop
- Apply the settings and quit the game
- Rename the Movies directory back to “Movies”
- Start up the game and it should work
YMMV.
THANKS MAN! THIS WORKED SO FINE. THANKS A LOOOOT 🙂
Nothing happened… still the same…
Epic help man, thanks 🙂
You are the best man!!!! wow! you are the king!
the game never works when i press double clck on it ihave ablack screen
This works for me but I did not rename the Movies.Renamed back to Movies. Thanks man
Thanks for your help!
(this worked for me btw)
how to set the resolution..my red alert 3 just all black.how can i set the resolution if i can see anything at the game????
please tell me how,i’m dying to play this game!!!!
i got it man….. I found this out not 15 minutes ago: You need to open up your Steam library and check your game properties (right-click on the game and hit Properties), then click on the Set Launch Options button, and type in “-win” (without the speech marks), the game should then boot up in windowed mode.ahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!
wow thanks this worked… but now it wont start after i rerenamed it back probobly on my end though thanks lots 🙂
thanks this worked!