User Guide

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ems to work well on all video cards. Graphics may appear a little squashed in th

ode. If all else fails, contact your video card manufacturer to check whether there a

ew drivers available for your video card.

. WHY DOESN’T THE SOUND WORK?

. WINDOWS 95:

Make sure your speakers are powered on and connecte

your PC. Make sure that your speaker volume controls are adjusted correctly.

our sound card is not supported in its native mode by Microsoft Direct Sound th

ound quality may suffer. If all else fails, try contacting your sound card manufa

rer to see if there are new drivers available for your sound card.

OS: Make sure your speakers are powered on and connected to your PC. Run SETUP.EX

om the installed game directory (e.g. C:\WESTWOOD\REDALERT) and make su

e right sound card is selected. If the sound still doesn’t work it’s possible the auto-dete

on code has failed to detect your settings. In this case you can manually enter yo

ound card’s IRQ, DMA and PORT settings through the SETUP program. Refer to t

ocumentation that came with your sound card for the correct settings.

. WHAT IF MY SOUND CARD IS NOT ON THE SETUP

PTIONS?

. DOS:

Your sound card must be 100% compatible with one of the supporte

ound cards.

. THE GAME RUNS SLOWLY ON MY SYSTEM. WHAT CAN

. WINDOWS 95:

Use the Red Alert for Windows 95 Setup utility (via t

Programs/Westwood/Red Alert/Red Alert Windows 95 Edition Setup” shortc

n the “Start” menu) and check the box marked “Allow hardware filled blits.” Th

ay improve performance on some systems. However, care must be used whe

tting this option as it may cause video problems during the game on certain sy

ms. In this situation you must run the game without this option checked.

certain rare cases you may be able to improve performance by running the Re

ert for Windows 95 Setup utility (via the “Programs/Westwood/Red Alert/Re

ert Windows 95 Edition Setup” shortcut on the “Start” menu) and un-checkin

e “Back buffer in video memory” box. Normally this box should be checked an

vere performance degradation can occur with an incorrect setting. Check gam