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*Possible Spoiler* Black Screen In Archives - Grue - 12-27-2010
I'm experiencing the bug where, when you pick up the note for the flashback with the orb in the archives, the screen goes black instead of allowing you to run and collect the orb.
I'm using a Steam version of the game (so it's up to date), my drivers are all up to date, and I wasn't running FRAPS at the time. I tried reloading and redoing the Archives section, this did not help. I tried reinstalling via Steam.
Do I need to restart the entire game?
RE: *Possible Spoiler* Black Screen In Archives - xiphirx - 12-27-2010
When Daniel goes "A faint blue shimmer" Hold down W until he says "I tried to grab the orb in my hands" then click.
You sure your gamma isnt too low?
RE: *Possible Spoiler* Black Screen In Archives - Grue - 12-27-2010
(12-27-2010, 06:35 PM)xiphirx Wrote: When Daniel goes "A faint blue shimmer" Hold down W until he says "I tried to grab the orb in my hands" then click.
You sure your gamma isnt too low?
Yes, I'm sure. It's actually too high for "playing the game as it's meant to be played". My video card is fine, because I haven't experienced issues with other games.
RE: *Possible Spoiler* Black Screen In Archives - xiphirx - 12-27-2010
Odd... Drivers up to date and everything?
RE: *Possible Spoiler* Black Screen In Archives - Grue - 12-27-2010
Yep, my drivers are up to date.
I'm using:
WinXP Service Pack 3
Nvidia 9400
Quad core
Could multicores cause a problem?
RE: *Possible Spoiler* Black Screen In Archives - Som1Lse - 12-28-2010
(12-27-2010, 09:35 PM)Grue Wrote: My video card is fine, because I haven't experienced issues with other games.I just wanted to say, that there might be problems with this game although you can run other games just fine, because a lot of other games are using DirectX.
This game is using OpenGL.
Thus it can be you video card. (although I doubt it)
(12-27-2010, 10:22 PM)Grue Wrote: Could multicores cause a problem?Could be.
But I doubt it.
RE: *Possible Spoiler* Black Screen In Archives - HarpLeaf - 04-05-2012
same problem...
RE: *Possible Spoiler* Black Screen In Archives - Tekkie - 04-05-2012
For the sake of experimenting to find the cause, I suggest playing the game directly before that point at the very lowest graphics settings you can. I know my game had a few issues like this to start with that were fixed by lowering all my graphics settings to minimum.