![]() ![]() Simply right click on the games shorcut and choose “Run as administrator”. If you don’t run the game as admin, you will probably encounter a “String manager failed to initialise” error. This is simply so that the game can set some registry keys. The first time you run Red Alert 2, you will need to run the game as administrator. Save the ini file when you are done editing it. You may prefer to stick to 720p (“ScreenWidth=1280” “ScreenHeight=720”) instead (or whatever resolution your monitor best supports that’s close to 720p), just so you can keep track of your troops without straining your eyes. A word of warning, the game was never designed with high resolutions in mind and at 1080p or higher resolutions the games graphics become very small. For 1080p, for instance, use “ScreenWidth=1920” and “ScreenHeight=1080” (do not copy the quotation marks). If you’re not familiar with editing text files, there’s a tutorial here.įind the section that begins and simply change the “ScreenWidth” and “ScreenHeight” values to the desired resolution. Edit this file in Notepad or your favourite text editor. Open the games installation folder (C:\Westwood\RA2 by default) and find a file called “RA2.ini”. On some PCs you may find that the default screen resolution of 640×480 doesn’t work, and raising the resolution is necessary in order to start the game. You can however, change the games resolution. There aren’t really any visual quality settings to change in Red Alert 2. If your copy of the game was from the First Decade or Ultimate Collection box sets, this patch is already pre-installed and you don’t need to download it. Make sure to install the latest patch before you head for the battlefield. You may want to change this, since Red Alert 2 (and several other games in the collection) need read/write access to their installation folders. Note that the First Decade box set installer places the game at “C:\Program Files (x86)\EA Games\Command
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