LigH,

Many thanks to you, I don't know how I missed this info., it seems a bit tough to navigate the PS site, digging a bit for the basics of getting started. But, that is a-OK and now I have had success!

Much appreciated,
C.

Cairn, this is great news about your system!  I seem to have spoken too soon and after a quick lunch break, came back to find that the black screen had come back again.  After pressing any number of interesting key combinations (Caps Lock+F2, Windows+F11, F8, F1-F12, Shift, enter, Control Panel, Enter, and etc. for about 25 minutes!!!!!!), then using this old Toshiba to search for "real" workarounds and just not quitting, I found a tutorial that helped me get into safe mode and then troubleshoot and eventually I was able to choose "refresh my PC".  All of this means that I have my laptop "like new" with none of the apps or preferences that I had installed since I received it as a gift in December.  Wow. 

However, I admit feeling great trepidation regarding my own lack of tech skills and any new attempt at downloading/installing PS at this point.  Now I'm seriously considering the Mainegeeks I mentioned in hopes that I could have it done as a service by someone who has a clue! ;-) Hopefully by next week, after a trip to the urban nightmare, I may come home with PS ready to go on my Dell.

I'll post again when I have a better handle on all of this.

Again, my thanks to all of you here who have offered advice and encouragement; great community!

Godspeed,
C.

Well, I went into task manager again and didn't see Vuze.exe, so that doesn't seem to be the issue?  I do believe this is a 64 Bit model, so that shouldn't have been an issue. I wonder if drivers that were not up to date would lead to something like this?  Finally, no, I get the screen that shows the date, battery level and internet connection signal, I slide (touchscreen) the window upward and this brings me to the sign in/user page.  I can sign in and then...the blackness descends! Argh.

I will keep at it, and that may mean a trip to a PC guru...wherever they may be in my remote landscape!  Thank you all,
C.

Greetings PS,

Ah, I am not sure how to explain or ask my question, but here goes.

I am NOT tech savvy any way.  I thought that I could try this RPG on my new laptop, a Dell w/ intel Core i7 processor (that's all I know about it at this point). I decided that I would try a free torrent app from the MS store (free version of Torrex).

I have no idea how to use torrent files ( No, I did not heed your warning). Meanwhile, after getting this app, I clicked on the 64-bit torrent download for windows. After about a half hour it apppeared to be done, and I found it in my downloads. Well, now to open the dang thing...and after some searching the net I think that I found out how to do that w/ some free download at file.org called Vuze.  I installed Vuze and then used it to open the PlaneShift torrent file...but, er, after I clicked install and saw the PlaneShift game screen, well, the screen went BLACK!

So, now the dilemma, of my own making, is that although I can restart my laptop and sign-in, the screen goes straight to black again. I can get to task manager, but it shows about fifty things running, and as I said in the beginning, I'm NOT tech savvy.  Not sure what to do to recover the use of my laptop.  I just wanted an RPG where I could "get away" from my incredibly stressful, real-life once in a while.  Ah well...

If anyone out there has pity on this fool, please respond here (at least I have my old Toshiba w/ windows 7 and some turtle-slow processor!).  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you and perhaps someday, I'll join the community in character?

C.