{"id":410,"date":"2011-08-10T13:03:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T12:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/?p=410"},"modified":"2013-09-07T10:44:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T10:44:11","slug":"red-alert-3-black-screen-on-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/2011\/red-alert-3-black-screen-on-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Alert 3 – Black screen on startup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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  1. Navigate to the Data folder, ie. C:\/Program Files\/Electronic Arts\/Red Alert 3\/Data<\/li>\n
  2. Rename the Movies folder to “Movies.renamed”<\/li>\n
  3. Start up the game<\/li>\n
  4. Set your resolution to the same as your desktop<\/li>\n
  5. Apply the settings and quit the game<\/li>\n
  6. Rename the Movies directory back to “Movies”<\/li>\n
  7. Start up the game and it should work<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    YMMV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[31,232,138,234],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-windows","tag-black","tag-games","tag-red-alert","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}