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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: pemling on September 06, 2006, 03:23:40 pm

Title: game seems to run; nothing displays :-(
Post by: pemling on September 06, 2006, 03:23:40 pm

Hey all,

First off, my specs: I have an 3000+ AMD Athalon XP (so, roughly 2.2 GHz) with 512 mb of RAM and, sadly, GeForce 4 MX integrated graphics.  I'm running Windows XP Home Edition, and had installed the most recent Windows build of Tremulous.

So here's my problem:
After installing the game I tried to run it.  The screen resizes, goes black then some of the game's background sound starts playing.  I wait and wait, but for some reason the game never see's fit to let me see anything.  I tried moving the mouse around and clicking, and am occasionally rewarded with some sound effects, so I know the game is running.

Now before you start suggesting them, here's what I've already tried:
- installed the newest NVIDIA drivers
- made sure DirectX is up to date (it is. 9.0c)
- closed as many other programs as possible

So I'm not quite sure what the problem is.  Is there some way to slow down that console at the begining?  For me it goes really fast (less than 2 seconds) so I can't read, let alone copy, any of the information that is shown.  I figured that might be a good place to start looking for the problem.  

If any of you can help me I would really appreciate it!

Title: game seems to run; nothing displays :-(
Post by: kevlarman on September 06, 2006, 05:50:14 pm

the most likely problem is that tremulous tries to run at a resolution your monitor doesn't support. open up a command prompt, go to the folder where tremulous is installed, then the base folder, then edit the file autogen.cfg with notepad or whatever. look for the line that says

Code: [Select]

seta r_mode "#" where # is some number. change the # to 4 (which is 800x600) and try running tremulous again.

Title: game seems to run; nothing displays :-(
Post by: rasz_pl on September 06, 2006, 07:10:20 pm

or press ALT-Enter

Title: game seems to run; nothing displays :-(
Post by: pemling on September 06, 2006, 10:07:36 pm

Kevlarman, I tried your solution first and there was no change.  It definatly changed the resolution, but the screen was ultimately just as black as it was before.

Rasz_pl, I tried your's next; pressing ALT-Enter.  It basically made it a windowed screen that was, you guessed it, black.  Still had sound running and could click on what I'm presuming to be buttons or menu items.

Any ideas?

Title: game seems to run; nothing displays :-(
Post by: rasz_pl on September 06, 2006, 11:28:13 pm

brightness? :)
vanilla Quake 3 runs ok?

Title: game seems to run; nothing displays :-(
Post by: pemling on September 07, 2006, 12:45:34 am

Hmm, I don't think it's a brightness issue.  I put the game on a friend's computer so I know what it ought to look like.  I don't even get that fun, weird, bug-eyed logo thing to show.

As far as Quake 3 goes, I don't know.  I don't have it.  I figured it isn't neccessary as it's supposed to be stand alone (and it seemingly works fine on my friend's computer.

Also, at this point I've tried an uninstall and reinstall.  And you guessed it, no change!

Title: game seems to run; nothing displays :-(
Post by: kozak6 on September 07, 2006, 01:07:43 am

I had this problem before.

I have the same graphics card (sigh), and all of my 3d games fucked up when I installed the latest drivers.

This fixed it right up:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_84.21.html

Title: game seems to run; nothing displays :-(
Post by: pemling on September 07, 2006, 11:47:43 pm

:D  It worked!  thanks!

Title: game seems to run; nothing displays :-(
Post by: kozak6 on September 08, 2006, 02:29:06 am

Glad to help.

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