Display Error

[Tiberius]

posted on December 18th, 2008, 1:16 am

Last edited by Tiberius on December 18th, 2008, 1:18 am, edited 1 time in total.

This is a weird one...

I fire up the game and in full screen mode its entirely black. Everything's there and works, its just blacked out. I alt-tab out and it goes into windowed mode but without the window and everything shows up just fine. I put it in windowed mode and it went into windowed mode properly. I pulled it out of windowed mode and it went to full screen mode, but it blacked out again.

Thoughts?


I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate x64.

GPU: 8800GT, latest Drives (whatever the numbers are, I downloaded them yesterday)
processor: AMD Athlon 6000+ Windsor



Interesting Addendum:

The credits display in full screen mode fine.

posted on December 18th, 2008, 10:32 am

hm.. make sure your card is set to performance, not to quality, in the drivers menu. there could be an issue with the quality-settings like AA/AF and the like

PS: same for ingame video options ^^ turn off AA, that might fix it.

posted on December 18th, 2008, 10:58 am

yh for some rfeason full screen dose not like AA but minimizing then going back on it apparently sorts it

posted on December 18th, 2008, 2:29 pm

After playing a couple of games last night its apparently just the menus that have a problem. once you get into the actual game, everything displays perfect.

posted on December 18th, 2008, 9:24 pm

I have a problem related to this...my game starts and the main menu appears, but the options are shifted to the right. In the Graphics settings menu, the back button fails to appear. Any ideas?

posted on December 18th, 2008, 11:03 pm

The AA is to blame, disable it and it'll work fine

posted on December 18th, 2008, 11:23 pm

Sorry but what is the AA?

posted on December 19th, 2008, 12:51 am

anti aliasing

posted on December 19th, 2008, 1:29 am

No, the AA is not the problem. The actual game part, where AA applies, displays fine, its the menu to get to the game that doesn't. Its not insurmountable, since if you alt-tab out it goes to windowed mode and displays properly but its still an error of some nature that it couldn't hurt to address.

And yes, for the sake of thoroughness, I did disable AA and try it to no avail.

posted on December 19th, 2008, 8:18 pm

Strangely enough, I had the exact same error u have now but when I disabled the AA it worked fine and so I have had no problems from there on

Thats why I suggested it , maybe u have other problems so good luck with that

posted on December 20th, 2008, 6:32 am

I tried alt-tab while in menu, but nothing happened, do I need to be in game?

posted on December 20th, 2008, 10:24 am

I'm running the comp in my sig and aside from the lack of saving and such, the game looks, runs, feels and essentially is great.

[Anonymous]

posted on December 26th, 2008, 9:48 am

Last edited by Anonymous on December 26th, 2008, 9:52 am, edited 1 time in total.

I have the same kinda issue, the alt tab trick saved me i didnt know about it.
Its only the menu, and the Admirals log.  game is AWESOME (first time playing, wish i had my disk during bata). its not the AA as i dont have it on, im wondering if its a resolution setting thing.