PlaneShift

Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: Suvok on January 14, 2008, 11:39:28 am

Title: 'Black Screen of Death' [Solved..ish]
Post by: Suvok on January 14, 2008, 11:39:28 am

I recently installed Vista and upgraded the RAM on my computer, PlaneShift worked like a dream. Then I upgraded my graphics card to an nVidia GeForce 8600GT. I am now getting a pitch black screen in the PlaneShift Client window, updater window and the setup window. I can however hear the background music at the login screen and I can log into the game by pressing Enter or clicking where the buttons should be. Basically the client is working, but I can't see a thing.

Specifications:

OS: Windows Vista Home Premium
Processor: AMD Athlon 3200+ (2.0GHz)
RAM: 2GB
Graphics Card: GeForce 8600GT (512MB)

As far as the internet and the manual will tell me, the card does support OpenGL. And I've always been under the impression that upgrading is good for your computer :D.

Thanks in advance for any help

Title: Re: 'Black Screen of Death'
Post by: Elvicat on January 14, 2008, 03:39:01 pm

tried getting the most recent driver from nvidia? also... i've heard theres some updates on vista that are a must for geforce cards so get that system updated to max if you havn't.

Title: Re: 'Black Screen of Death'
Post by: Suvok on January 15, 2008, 02:44:51 am

Yes. I meant to say that in the first post. Latest drivers for all.

Title: Re: 'Black Screen of Death'
Post by: Izzabella on January 15, 2008, 06:28:04 am

 :offtopic: Nice to see your at least still around Suvok, we have to do something about out time zones tho..I never see you around :( get that fixed so I can pick the old man!

Title: Re: 'Black Screen of Death'
Post by: Suvok on January 15, 2008, 08:03:30 am

Oh. I've just tried PlaneShift on XP in Virtual PC. Of course, Virtual PC doesn't support hardware acceleration but I did manage to get into PlaneShift, Setup and Updater without the black screen. Just the extremely colourful, blocky and laggy graphics you get with no hardware acceleration. I'm installing XP on dual boot today so I'll post how PlaneShift works on that, providing someone doesn't come up with a miraculous answer to my problems by then.

@Izzabella: Look like I'll have to emigrate to a timezone that suits you then :D

Thanks for the help so far.

----edit----

It worked on XP. And when I was back in Vista I found out that I can play PlaneShift when the Aero theme is disabled. Partially solved :D

Title: Re: 'Black Screen of Death' [Solved..ish]
Post by: Zhaxor on January 19, 2008, 11:32:04 am

I have Vista Ultimate and Nvidia 8600GT and it's ran fine ever since I got it, there must be sorme sort of driver issue. This is my driver version, which one do you have? 7.15.11.6375

Title: Re: 'Black Screen of Death' [Solved..ish]
Post by: Suvok on January 19, 2008, 11:41:02 am

Yes. The same driver. It's been installed since the problem first occured.

However I can use PlaneShift now, I've just changed the compatibilty settings to disable Aero while it is running. Help is not urgently needed now. Thanks for the help though.