Black screen

[alliednoob]

I just burned the allies disk for red alert 1 to a cd.
I tried downloading it, I had problems, used the setup manager .98 thing and it fixed it.
Now I can't launch the game.
When I do it just stays a black screen and I have to get the task manager up, it says the game is not responding.

Does anyone know how this can be solved?

(Yes, I have the compatibility to windows 95, and I have ran red alert 1 and tiberian dawn on this computer before, I have windows vista 32 bit and I have it updated to 3patch 3.03, but I did NOT download the XP patch)

[Nyerguds]

You enabled NoCD in the setup manager. Don't.

[alliednoob]

How do I do that?
EdWin doesn't work.
I also downloaded it from RA Archive, because I can't open your file.
I also named the CD RedAlert1_Allies, not sure if that's right or not.

[chickendippers]

One assumes it's an option in the setup manager utility you used.

[alliednoob]

I didn't see a check box that said that.
Or are you talking about that CD protection thing, because I didn't turn that on.
It might be a DirectX problem, because when I tried to open the preview file (the one with teasers of some of their "new" games) it said that I needed to install DirectX driver or something from the disk. This is sorta weird because I could run C&C gold fine (the movies, it's preview file, and the game). Can this be fixed?

[alliednoob]

Btw, I got a dual core processor, not sure if that's the problem, but I heard RA crashes on them (I tried forcecore but I got an error...).
I get an "CLR error: 80004005" and then it terminates the program.

Edit:

Just tried the affinity thing, it didn't work... Tried it with both cores...
Also tried it on my other comp (running vista with 1 core), I got it running but it kept saying "Please insert red alert disk." What's the CD names? I got a burner to burn it to a CD, but it named the CD "CD2" and it's still not working >.<!

[chickendippers]

I've got 3 dual core computers of various architectures and OSs and RA works perfectly on all of them. I'd suggest using the Magic ISO technique in my guide as this saves you from having to burns disks: http://www.cncworld.org/?page=features/tutorials/index

[alliednoob]

Yeah, I was about to try it.

[alliednoob]

OMG, W00T, worked!
Getting expansions now :D