City of Heroes: Live Forum Archive

Black Screen.

Bloody Strike

By Bloody Strike,
Posted on: 2009-07-12 20:52 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

Posted

Hiya,
I'm getting a black screen when I get past CohUpdater, I don't even get the splash/loading screen. I think CoH is running because I can type and hear the sound effects. I've tried safe mode, same result.

I installed a new video card yesterday, and in honor of it cranked up the graphics settings to high on everything - but CoH worked for several hours last night, and quite a while this morning. I can't think of anything I did, system or settings-wise, between when it was working and now.

I even have tried 'restoring' to a time I knew that CoH worked (but after I installed the card). Any suggestions?

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---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.1.1.7---

DxDiag gathered at July 12, 2009 22:40 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.090302-1506)
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Central Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 940 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory: 4094MB
.Net Memory Report: 2274MB out of 4094MB available
Page File: 6711MB (1709MB currently in use)
C Drive: (Hitachi HDS721616PLA380 ATA Device) 51099MB out of 142297MB (35%) free
D Drive: (Hitachi HDS721616PLA380 ATA Device) 6586MB out of 10239MB (64%) free
S Drive: (WDC WD10EACS-00ZJB0 ATA Device) 185045MB out of 953866MB (19%) free
E Drive: (HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 10
DirectX Diag version: 6.00.6001.18000 (64-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.

No problems found.

No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce 9800 GT
Video Memory: 2289 MB
Driver Version: 8.15.0011.8618
Driver Date: 6/10/2009 6:03:00 AM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (VIA High Definition Audio)
Driver File: viahduaa.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.1560
Driver Date: 12/18/2008 10:43:18 PM

Sound Device Description: Speakers (USB Audio CODEC )
Driver File: USBAUDIO.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.6001.18000
Driver Date: 1/20/2008 9:47:04 PM

Sound Device Description: Digital Output Device (HDMI TX0) (VIA High Definition Audio)
Driver File: viahduaa.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.1560
Driver Date: 12/18/2008 10:43:18 PM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: ASRock
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: A780GXH/128M
Motherboard Version:
BIOS Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Name: Default System BIOS
BIOS Version: 041709 - 20090417
BIOS Release: 20090417000000.000000+000

Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1680x1050
3D Resolution: 1680x1050 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes

Physics Quality: Very High
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No

Anti-aliasing: 2x
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Crisp
Water Effects: High Quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High

World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 2.000
Entity Detail Level: 2.000
Shadows Enabled: Yes
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of Extra Player FX Enabled: No
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: Yes
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.554
Music Sound Volume: 0.000

Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.600
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 173259 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 19.20090619.5T2
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

Dr. Spectre of the Midnight Avengers
Taxibot 1
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Golden Ager of the GotGA

 

Posted

Update Vista to SP2.

The main problem however is the new nVidia drivers. They cause this. Drop back to the 185.85 drivers and all will be fine.

If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

Posted

That did the trick! Thank you very, very much!

Dr. Spectre of the Midnight Avengers
Taxibot 1
Getaway, of the Rogue Isles Getaway Service
Golden Ager of the GotGA

 

Posted

Could I get the 32-bit version of this please?

 

Posted

What video card do you have? What Operating System? There are differences based on those two items.

If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

Posted

GeForce 7300 LE, Vista 32-bit.

 

Posted

Link

If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

Posted

Never mind, I fixed the problem.