Black Login Screen

Hi, so I wanted to return to CoH after a very long hiatus. I finished downloading and installing everything last night. This morning I hop on, and see that the screen goes black shortly after the loading bar fades in. It loads for a second then I hear the login screen music. My mouse switches to the CoH cursor, and the screen remains black.

After a lot of research, I've uninstalled and reinstalled to the latest graphics drivers. I already did a check last night on "Can You Run It" to see if my computer was able to take on CoH, which I pass the minimum & recommended specs (aside from having win7) easily.

I've tried various combinations of compatibility/no compatibility/run as administrator/turning off visual theme options.

I've added in commands onto the target line. I've even created a bat file to stop explorer, start coh, run explorer again (a trick to fix graphic issues in starcraft). This actually only worked up until I hit the login screen, but it loaded more like one would expect.

Thanks for any help you can provide :|


---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.1.1.8---

DxDiag gathered at March 8, 2010 13:40 (+07:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Studio 1535
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A05
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8100 @ 2.10GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.1GHz
Memory: 4096MB
.Net Memory Report: 2460MB out of 4085MB available
Page File: 6476MB (1693MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD3200BEVT-75ZCT0 ATA Device) 7524MB out of 151280MB (4%) free
D Drive: (WDC WD3200BEVT-75ZCT0 ATA Device) 20896MB out of 143643MB (14%) free
E Drive: (WDC WD3200BEVT-75ZCT0 ATA Device) 3920MB out of 10239MB (38%) free
F Drive: (Optiarc DVD+-RW AD-7640S ATA Device) zero-size drive
G Drive: (BAJYJY BKHEZ0HY SCSI CdRom Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7600.16385 (64-bit version)

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

Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family
Manufacturer / Chip: Intel Corporation / Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family
Video Memory: 358 MB
Driver Version: 8.15.10.1930
Driver Date: 9/23/2009 12:22:58 PM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (2- High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 7/14/2009 7:07:00 AM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: 0M263C
Motherboard Version:
BIOS Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
BIOS Name: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A05
BIOS Version: ACRSYS - 27d8071e
BIOS Release: 20080730000000.000000+000

Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1024x768
3D Resolution: 1024x768 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: No

Physics Quality: Medium
Maximum Particles: 14977
Max Particle Fill? 1.000
Physics Card Enabled: No

Anti-aliasing: None
Anisotropic Filtering: None
Texture LOD Bias: Medium
Water Effects: None
Bloom: 0.500 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: Low (with world bumpmaps)

World Texture Level: Low
Character Texture Level: Medium
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 0.500
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: No
Suppression of Extra Player FX Enabled: No
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Compatiblity
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 1.000
Music Sound Volume: 0.600

Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.600
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1600.20100114.8T
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

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About the uninstalling and reinstalling of the video drivers, where are you getting the drivers from? Are you getting them from Dell? Intel? Windows Updates?

Also, your C: and D: drives are extremely low on disk space. Windows starts having problems with some functions when you get below ~20% free space. Since CoH is on the C: drive, it's especially significant.

Post a log from running HijackThis. This will show what else is going on on your computer while you are playing CoH.

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