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Offline christhemad

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black screen
« on: January 06, 2012, 06:39:56 am »
hey i found this for my droid anyway it dont work on there so i downloaded it for my computer as i love xcom type games. well i installed it fine and played it the menu comes up fine and ingame the hud comes up fine but theres no world map or anything and when i click on the create base the base shows up fine were you can build and all. i also tryed the sirmish mission and it does the same thing hud shows up fine but the map is just black. i just downloaded it today using the top files for downloading for windows so they should be the newest i would think. anyway im on windows xp pro sp 3 with 2.0 gig single core 1 gig ram 290 gig hard drives total and an ati 9600 all in wounder pro video card. given that i can play c&c4 on here i dont think video card is the problem. so any help would be great

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Re: black screen
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2012, 09:19:15 am »
Welcome to the forums. Check this page for instructions on where to find your ufoconsole.log and attach it here.

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Re: black screen
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2012, 09:32:00 am »
Try to disable shaders -- 9600 is an old card and is very likely to have problems with the GPU features we are using.

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Re: black screen
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2012, 12:06:34 am »
is that ingame or how do i do the shader im checking the link there to find that info and will post it in just a few mins when i find it

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Re: black screen
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2012, 12:12:58 am »
ok here it is i guess im going to have to attach the file as it is over the 20k letter limit

edit i also just tryed starting the game and a window pops up and give me this now


---- filesystem initialization -----
Adding game dir: ./base
Added packfile ./base/0base.pk3 (9 files)
Added packfile ./base/0maps.pk3 (544 files)
Added packfile ./base/0materials.pk3 (45 files)
Added packfile ./base/0media.pk3 (10 files)
Added packfile ./base/0models.pk3 (2015 files)
Added packfile ./base/0music.pk3 (49 files)
Added packfile ./base/0pics.pk3 (2114 files)
Added packfile ./base/0shaders.pk3 (26 files)
Added packfile ./base/0snd.pk3 (266 files)
Added packfile ./base/0ufos.pk3 (97 files)
Adding game dir: C:\Documents and Settings\chris\Application Data\UFOAI/2.3.1/base
using C:\Documents and Settings\chris\Application Data\UFOAI/2.3.1/base for writing
executing default.cfg
executing config.cfg

----- network initialization -------
libcurl/7.16.4 zlib/1.2.2 initialized.

------ server initialization -------
added 7 maps to the mapcycle

----- console initialization -------
Console initialized.

------- video initialization -------
SDL version: 1.2.14
I: desktop depth: 32bpp
I: video memory: 0
I: Available resolutions: 1280x1024 1280x960 1280x800 1280x768 1280x720 1152x864 1024x768 1024x480 848x480 800x600 720x576 720x480 640x480 640x400 512x384 400x300 320x240 320x200 (18)
I: video driver: windib
I: setting mode -1
I: set swap control to 0
I: 1024x768 (fullscreen: yes)
I: got 8 bits of stencil
I: got 16 bits of depth buffer
I: got double buffer
I: got 8 bits for red
I: got 8 bits for green
I: got 8 bits for blue
I: got 0 bits for alpha
I: got 1 multisample buffers
GL_VENDOR: Microsoft Corporation
GL_RENDERER: GDI Generic
GL_VERSION: 1.1.0
GL_EXTENSIONS: GL_WIN_swap_hint GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_paletted_texture
No hardware acceleration detected.
Update your graphic card drivers.
FS_RemoveFile: remove C:\Documents and Settings\chris\Application Data\UFOAI/2.3.1/base/keys.cfg

Shutdown

edit 2: after restarting my pc again i was able to start the game and turned off everything in the video options and i can now see the world map tho everything looks fuzzy
« Last Edit: January 09, 2012, 12:31:02 am by christhemad »

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Re: black screen
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2012, 12:51:48 am »
GL_VENDOR: Microsoft Corporation
GL_RENDERER: GDI Generic
GL_VERSION: 1.1.0
GL_EXTENSIONS: GL_WIN_swap_hint GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_paletted_texture
No hardware acceleration detected.
Update your graphic card drivers.

It looks like you've not installed any drivers for your graphics card since you installed windows !
As AMD have stopped updating drivers for your card, the most recent you can get is probably this one.

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Re: black screen
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2012, 09:01:29 pm »
ya ill try that and see if that works. may not have gotten the newist ones when i installed this one on this computer. more so srnce i cqnt get the tv to work. ill let you guys know whay happens. and forgive the bad spelling am using my phone to remote into my pc so its yard ro see what im typeing and no spell check.