Red Alert 1 - Scrolls to fast

Conrad11 · 5 Nov 2008 at 01:31

I starting playing this for no apparent reason and am really getting into it again

Problem is that I am playing it on a 24" monitor with the native res of 1920*1200 and when I put my mouse to the bottom of the map to scroll into new territory, it scrolls way to fast.

Is there anyway to slow this down?

Already tried slowing down the mouse pointer in windows and setting the scroll rate to slow in the settings of RA, but it didn't help much.

Thanks for any input.

Indy500 · 5 Nov 2008 at 01:33

What spec? Are you running it in XP? What version (eg Aftermath)?

I had it working fine with a dualcore and a fairly sensitive mouse using the lowest slider setting in Red Alert with the 3.03 XP patch.

Conrad11 · 5 Nov 2008 at 01:35

I'm on Vista x64, erm....original version patched to 3.03E

Indy500 · 5 Nov 2008 at 01:39

Conrad11 said:
I'm on Vista x64, erm....original version patched to 3.03E

System specs? Have you used a tool like "setaffinity" to correct the multicore issue if applicable?

Amnesia · 5 Nov 2008 at 04:49

try holding right mouse button down and moving around like that

BobbyBBB · 5 Nov 2008 at 07:20

memory said:
try holding right mouse button down and moving around like that

Yeah i think this I what I ended up doing

LeJosh · 5 Nov 2008 at 09:23

I started playing warcraft 2 again and it was scrolling way too fast on my XP machine. GTA2 the whole gameplay sped up like mad on my vista machine, it was weird.

Indy500 · 5 Nov 2008 at 13:14

LeJosh said:
I started playing warcraft 2 again and it was scrolling way too fast on my XP machine. GTA2 the whole gameplay sped up like mad on my vista machine, it was weird.

GTA1 and 2 have a framerate cap option for just that reason

West · 5 Nov 2008 at 13:17

I'm pretty sure theres a fix out there for it.. one sec i'll see if I can track it down.

Edit: infact I think it's part of the official free release on the C&C website..

Conrad11 · 5 Nov 2008 at 23:17

sr4470 said:
System specs? Have you used a tool like "setaffinity" to correct the multicore issue if applicable?

T7250, 4GB RAM, 8600GTm

No just run it...no tools run.

Tried the right click thing...doesn't help much.

....I would rather not download the whole thing again...is there no patch I can apply to the version I have at the moment?

Killerkebab · 6 Nov 2008 at 02:06

Have you tried a CPU limiter?

Prospector · 6 Nov 2008 at 05:42

There's an option in...well...options, to turn down the game and scroll speed, have a look.

domthecondom · 6 Nov 2008 at 07:58

Man, these games work on Vista? I might install them again

Dist · 6 Nov 2008 at 15:57

If RA1 was old enough to be run from dos, then perhaps using DOSBox would help. It basicaly emulate an old DOS environment, and even lets you controll the speed and framerate at which it runs. Perfect for running realy old games that play too fast on modern machines.

Shamikebab · 6 Nov 2008 at 15:58

Prospector said:
There's an option in...well...options, to turn down the game and scroll speed, have a look.

Dist · 6 Nov 2008 at 16:07

Prospector said:
There's an option in...well...options, to turn down the game and scroll speed, have a look.

Conrad11 said:
Already tried slowing down the mouse pointer in windows and setting the scroll rate to slow in the settings of RA, but it didn't help much.

Conrad11 · 6 Nov 2008 at 17:43

Killerkebab said:
Have you tried a CPU limiter?

Just tried one...it didn't work.

Doesn't work in DOSBox either.

Conrad11 · 8 Nov 2008 at 15:57

Figured out how.

Edit the redalert.ini file in the root folder and increase the number of the [ScrollRate].

LeJosh · 8 Nov 2008 at 18:16

what did you set it to conrad? I keep doing but it defaults to 6

I fixed it without going to the ini files, enable back buffer in video memory! through the "RASETUP" application.