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black screen when start the game?? - mehmetksk - 04-30-2007 when installed the game in first run i have changed sound hardware option from OFF to ON then restart game and in the startup the game is freeze and i can close only with ctrl+alt+del combination..my sound card is audigy...i cant see any screen, no loading no intro no menu..the game isnt start....i do reinstall but it wasnt correct... sorry of wrong using of english beaucause i know english a little.. copy from hpl.log -------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------ Creating Engine Modules -------------------------------------------------------- Creating graphics module Creating system module Creating resource module Creating input module Creating sound module Creating physics module Creating ai module Creating scene module -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing Resources Module -------------------------------------------------------- Creating resource managers Misc Creation -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing Graphics Module -------------------------------------------------------- Init low level graphics Setting video mode: 800 x 600 - 32 bpp Init Glee...OK Setting up OpenGL Max texture image units: 16 Max texture coord units: 8 Two sided stencil: 1 Vertex Buffer Object: 1 Anisotropic filtering: 1 Max Anisotropic degree: 16 Multisampling: 1 Vertex Program: 1 Fragment Program: 1 NV Register Combiners: 1 NV Register Combiners Stages: 8 ATI Fragment Shader: 0 Creating graphic systems Creating Renderer2D Renderer2D created Creating Renderer3D Load Renderer3D gpu programs: Extrude Diffuse Fog Creating fog textures: Solid Additive Alpha init sky box Renderer3D created Creating screen buffers size 800.000000 : 600.000000 Creating programs RendererPostEffects created Adding engine materials -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing Sound Module -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing OpenAL. Trying to open hardware device... RE: black screen when start the game?? - jens - 04-30-2007 Go to My Documents/Penumbra Overture/Episode1 and delete the settings.cfg file, start the game again and it should work. You can try and update the drivers for the audio card as well, and then try and set sound hardware to true again. Should it crash again, delete the settings.cfg file. RE: black screen when start the game?? - mehmetksk - 04-30-2007 i solved the error with changing the setting.cfg use hardware sound false but i cant use hardware sound....whyyy??? RE: black screen when start the game?? - jens - 04-30-2007 Get the latest drivers for the audio card and then try hardware sound RE: black screen when start the game?? - mehmetksk - 04-30-2007 i'm using latest drivers RE: black screen when start the game?? - jens - 04-30-2007 then it's an issue that might be fixed in an upcoming patch.