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> I'm having problems with my Direct X drivers for Red Alert. I've > updated the video drivers from IBM's homepages and it still doesn't work > > Currently I can play the game in DOS at 300x400 > but in Win95 it just displays a black screen moving the mouse revels the > terrain but it screws up after a while. > > Sound works fine in both cases though. > > any suggestions I'm running Red Alert (in the few spare moments I have, anyway) on my ThinkPad 760C, and I found that I could avoid the problem you observe by running the supplied "Red Alert Win95 Edition Setup" program, and making sure the following settings are checked: 640x480 pixels (not sure if this one is required) Allow hardware filled blits and leaving the other fields unchecked/blank. I arrived at this via experimentation, and my results are somewhat at odds with the supplied documentation, but it seems to work. BTW, I'm using the most recent ThinkPad video drivers for the 760C, and have only played on an external monitor. Hope this helps. -- Tim Tyhurst tim@excelsior.com