[SOLVED] New button/Use Map button disappear bug

[selyb 0]

I had this problem on my uncle's PC and it took me hours to narrow it down. It was a text size setting in windows control panel. On Vista/7 the location is Control Panel > Appearance > Display. If the text size is not 100% then RA2/YR has several visual bugs like the sliders appearing in the wrong place, The New button under network will disappear and change to join when pressed, and Use Map button will change to Random when pressed.

 

When this bug is present, I can't host a game and I cannot use the map generator. As soon as I press New, Join moves up and replaces it. Most of the sliders in the options screen appear to the right side outside of the allowed area for that slider. I searched google and saw on various sites others with the same problem but no solution. Hope this helps someone

Edited July 7, 2012 by selyb

[Snipes89 0]

THANK YOU SO MUCH
I have been trying to figure out why it does this for so long

[Doctor Destiny 42]

Even though this is old, I'm going to pin it. This is a fairly common issue with RA2 so this will help other people for sure...

[Si Lot 0]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion, but in my case that did not work at all. i have tried a lot of things. one of them is what you tried, and i tried to turn of ClearType-text and different compatibility stuff, and ddwrapper, repair the game, reinstall the game, using original cd, a copy of ra2 from origin when it was free, and i bought command and conquer the ultimate colletion, i have tried playing it on a separate monitor, i have tried the "fix" by adding one or two extra monitors, redusing and increasing the resolution on my pc.

Btw im using an Asus N56VZ with i7 3610QM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M. running Win 7 64-bit

On my other pc witch is an Acer aspire 5739 running win7 32-bit is working just fine, but it's so slow and laggy that it's not optimal when hosing a lan game.

 

I had this problem with the Acer pc too but quickly found out about the text sizing stuff. So i don't know if i need to do something in the registry or something to fix this, so plz

(and yeah i know this tread is old but i figured it would be better to continue here instead of creating a new one and get yelled at :-P)

[GoldnOil 0]

[SOLVED] RA2 Network/LAN lobby: “New” turns into “Join”, then “You must select a game!” (Windows 10)

 

Symptom:

In the Network lobby, the Games list shows only “Lobby”.

On the right there’s one button showing “New” instead of separate New and Join buttons.

Clicking New turns it into “Join” and the chat shows “You must select a game!”.

You can never host a game.

The same game folder works on another PC.

(*try DPI/text-size settings of windows to normal 100%, if that doesn't solve then try the below).

 

Cause: this isn’t a networking, DPI, CnC-DDraw or compatibility-mode problem. RA2’s menu layouts use the old bitmap font “MS Sans Serif”. On my PC the font file existed (C:\Windows\Fonts\sserife.fon), but Windows had lost its registry entry, so the font was never loaded. Windows used a different font instead, which changed the menu measurements and put the Join button on top of New.

 

Check whether you have it. Run this in PowerShell. If the result is empty, you’re affected:

Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts' | Select-Object 'MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24'

 

Fix. Open PowerShell as Administrator and back up the font registry first:

reg export "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts" "$env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\Fonts_backup.reg" /y

 

Then add the missing entries:

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts" /v "MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24" /t REG_SZ /d "SSERIFE.FON" /f

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts" /v "MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24" /t REG_SZ /d "SERIFE.FON" /f

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts" /v "Small Fonts" /t REG_SZ /d "SMALLE.FON" /f

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts" /v "Courier 10,12,15" /t REG_SZ /d "COURE.FON" /f

 

Restart Windows. New and Join should now appear side by side, and New should open the game setup screen.

 

To undo: run reg delete on the same four values (same key, same /v names) and restart.

 

Notes:

 

These file names are for Western-language Windows. On other system languages, use the matching variant from C:\Windows\Fonts, for example sserifee.fon for Central European.

Things that did not help, so you can skip them: compatibility modes, removing the HIGHDPIAWARE flag, CnC-DDraw renderer/windowed settings, IPXWrapper adapter changes, and firewall rules.

Setup: RA2 1.006, CnC-DDraw 7.1, IPXWrapper 0.7.2, Windows 10 22H2 (19045), 4K laptop.