amagad Posted July 1, 2005 Posted July 1, 2005 Hey everyone, i have a big problem here. I just bought the new falcon 4 game and when i start the game my screen goes black and i can only see the cursor and hear the game. I tried changing resolutions and refresh rates but nothing. I have a gf 6800 128 and the 77.72 drivers. What i did was downgrade them to the 6x.xx version and then falcon 4 :AF runned good, the problem then is that i get lots of video annomalities when playing lomac. So I reinstalled the new 77.72 drivers again and back to the same falcon problem now. This also happens to me when playing FS2004 and i fix it by playing in windowed mode, but falcon 4 doesnt seem to support that. Is there anyway i can force falcon 4 to run in a window or anything else i can do to fix this???? PLEASE HELP!! Asus P7P55D Pro Intel i7 @ 4.0 GHZ 8gb xms ddr3 memory 500gb SATA HD ATI 5870 27" Dell LCD Monitor Thermaltake Black Widow 850W HOTAS WartHog Thrustmaster MFD's 8" lcd monitors x2 (mfd) Saitek Cyborg Keyboard TrackIR5
khoang Posted January 27, 2006 Posted January 27, 2006 hey, sounds like i got the same problem too. my screen just go black, no response from PC (PC still running though), can't press any button, only can reset or power off. to how many X do you set antialias and anisotropic? i have a 6600 GT AGP, seemed like anytime i set AA and AN to 4X, the problem occurs.
Pilotasso Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 Amagad, wich is your PC specifications? Do you have a 6600 Nvidia?I think I read somewhere these cards had a few issues with power on certain systems, but there are people over here who know better this than me. Wait for their word. .
hitman Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 and what version of falcon are you running? Falcon 4 SP4 has a special option that allows AA to be run during gameplay. If you have AA turned on then it wont run properly.
Ice Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 Can you imagine what would happen if someone went into f4 Forums and asked a technical question about Lock-On Just an observation LOL
SuperKungFu Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 Can you imagine what would happen if someone went into f4 Forums and asked a technical question about Lock-On Just an observation LOL been there...done it....not cool lol. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 Can you imagine what would happen if someone went into f4 Forums and asked a technical question about Lock-On Just an observation LOL an observation that 1 made this side of the pond aswell :)
Sleek Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 Can you imagine what would happen if someone went into f4 Forums and asked a technical question about Lock-On Just an observation LOL with ya on that one! But I like to think were not like that bunch so let's try and help ;) but I have a feeling this thread may get closed :) p.s I visit frugals eveery other day so i know what it's like there ;) :horseback Be Good..Be Strong..:drink: ;)
504MrWolf Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 i got this with Lockon.....whilst flying with new recruits mid-week one of them dumped 10-15 flares ahead of me whilst i was on short finals lol My screen pixels wobbled then went black ! Lockon was dead but i could tab out and kill Lockon with task manager. Might not be the same problem but thought i would share. www.VVS504.co.uk www.lockonskins.co.uk
ARM505 Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 I had this happen too, but the screen would only be black in certain situations. I could still hear the jet, and so I pressed F2. The screen was still black, but when I moved the mouse, I could see the external view from certain view angles. The gfx were a bit screwed up though, with lines radiating all over the place. I couldn't access the menu, the cursor would appear but no quit menu. Odd. It only happened once though.
Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 ya, i think everyone at somepoint in time has had the dreaded black screen but can still hear whats happening but just cant see the game, even if you alt tab in and out it still remains black. I have had it a few times, not lately, but I can remember it happening, even tho it doesnt happen very often. Permanent black screen or something like that that happens all the time, well I dunno, but I wud try reinstalling the game or removing any mods that you may have installed. Even tho it is F4 that you are on about... Thats what I would do.
golfsierra2 Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 Amagad, wich is your PC specifications? Do you have a 6600 Nvidia?I think I read somewhere these cards had a few issues with power on certain systems, but there are people over here who know better this than me. Wait for their word. Yup, you should have at least a 450 W power supply in your machine.... kind regards, Raven.... [sigpic]http://www.crc-mindreader.de/CRT/images/Birds2011.gif[/sigpic]
SilentBob Posted January 28, 2006 Posted January 28, 2006 yes the black screen...I had it in LOMAC too. I think it's got something to do with the mods. what I did was this: I started with a fresh install. then put the mods one by one and the mods that caused the probs were the F-16 dirty and the F-15 cockpit mod or a combination of them. my advice is to do the same - freash install, then carefully putting the mods. OR - uninstalling them one after the other and see what goes. hope it helps. SB ** image removed by moderator ** System Specs: intel Core i7 2600K, nVidia GTX580 ,8GB x1333 MHz RAM ,Win 7 ultimate 64bit, LG FLATRON W24553v 24" Monitor. MSFF 2 stick (yeah, it sucks).
3Sqn_Sven Posted January 29, 2006 Posted January 29, 2006 Same thing happened to me, if you disable your card's anti-aliasing the F4AF will work, turn on AA in the actual game itself. Pain in the ass. 3Sqn - Largest distributor of Flanker, Fulcrum and Frogfoot parts in the Black Sea Region
Ice Posted January 29, 2006 Posted January 29, 2006 The Black Screen bug is one of the major fixes in 1.12. :D
SilentBob Posted January 29, 2006 Posted January 29, 2006 The Black Screen bug is one of the major fixes in 1.12. :D You talk about LOMAC 1.12? is there going to be 1.12 Patch? :icon_supe when? what? where? :D SB ** image removed by moderator ** System Specs: intel Core i7 2600K, nVidia GTX580 ,8GB x1333 MHz RAM ,Win 7 ultimate 64bit, LG FLATRON W24553v 24" Monitor. MSFF 2 stick (yeah, it sucks).
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