[HELP]Black screen at the amnesia (hpl2) Level Editor

[buu342]

Hello! Today i decided to download the amnesia level editor. So i downloaded it. When i opened it with winrar, it gave me an error saying "unexpected end of archive". I repaired the zip, and tried extracting everything into the redist folder. Everything made it BUT the materialeditor.pdb. Winrar said the file was currupt. So i let it go and i tried running the Levelcreator. But all i got was a black screen. I tried to quit it but it wouldn't work. So i Alt F4'd out of it. nothing. So i closed it with task manager and that worked. I tried running the other files such as map view and hpllangtool and they ran fine. BUT the material editor didnt work. it gave me the same black screen. (i wasn't expecting that it would work because i was missing the pdb file)

Help?

If the problem is because i am missing the file, can someone please give me a WORKING version of the zip file?

Thanks!

Im using an Alienware m14x, windows 7 64 bit.

HPL LOG


Version 1.20 - s26ADEE0-539
-------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------
Engine build ID 20101021192547

Creating Engine Modules
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Creating graphics module
Creating system module
Creating resource module
Creating input module
Creating sound module
Creating physics module
Creating ai module
Creating gui module
Creating generate module
Creating haptic module
Creating scene module
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Initializing Resources Module
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Creating loader handlers
Creating resource managers
Adding loaders to handlers
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Initializing Graphics Module
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Init lowlevel graphics: 1152x864 bpp:32 fs:1 ms:0 gpufmt:2 cap:'Amnesia - The Dark Descent - Loading...' pos-1x-1)
Setting video mode: 1152 x 864 - 32 bpp

[buu342]

BUMP! HALP!

[Your Computer]

Have you tried re-downloading the editor suite? Perhaps with a different browser and extracting the archive perhaps with a different archive program?

[buu342]

Have you tried re-downloading the editor suite? Perhaps with a different browser and extracting the archive perhaps with a different archive program?

yes i have. all with no avail.

[Your Computer]

Your system appears to have two graphic cards on it. It is possible that the level editor is using the weaker one. See if there is a control panel on your system (e.g. one provided by Nvidia) that lets you force the level editor to use your Nvidia graphics card.

[buu342]

Your system appears to have two graphic cards on it. It is possible that the level editor is using the weaker one. See if there is a control panel on your system (e.g. one provided by Nvidia) that lets you force the level editor to use your Nvidia graphics card.

nope. Still nothing

I copied this from the hpl log


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Initializing Graphics Module
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Init lowlevel graphics: 1152x864 bpp:32 fs:1 ms:0 gpufmt:2 cap:'Amnesia - The Dark Descent - Loading...' pos-1x-1)
Setting video mode: 1152 x 864 - 32 bpp
Init Glew...OK
Setting up OpenGL
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: GeForce GT 555M/PCI/SSE2
Version: 4.1.0
Max texture image units: 32
Max texture coord units: 8
Max user clip planes: 8
Two sided stencil: 1
Vertex Buffer Object: 1
Anisotropic filtering: 1
Max Anisotropic degree: 16
Multisampling: 1
Texture compression: 1
Texture compression S3TC: 1
Auto generate MipMaps: 1
Render to texture: 1
Max draw buffers: 8
Max color render targets: 8
Packed depth-stencil: 1
Texture float: 1
GLSL Version: 4.10 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
ShaderModel 2: 1
ShaderModel 3: 1
ShaderModel 4: 1
OGL ATIFragmentShader: 0
Setting up G-Bugger: type: 0 texturenum: 3
Adding engine materials
Initializing DevIL
Vendor String: Abysmal Software
Version String: Developer's Image Library (DevIL) 1.6.8pre Aug 12 2006
Version Number: 168
Adding engine post effects

[buu342]

bump. Help?

[Robby]

Has to be something in your PC. I don't have the materialeditor.pdb file, and the material editor works perfectly fine.

Try disabling the "Aero" theme on Win 7. You can do it in the "personalize" setting. When you right click the desktop. Just select a "basic" theme. Not "Aero".

[buu342]

Has to be something in your PC. I don't have the materialeditor.pdb file, and the material editor works perfectly fine.

Try disabling the "Aero" theme on Win 7. You can do it in the "personalize" setting. When you right click the desktop. Just select a "basic" theme. Not "Aero".

im not using the aero theme. Infact, im using the theme my alienware came with...

[Robby]

Try disabling that too.

If even that doesn't help, I have no idea. Try to use the stronger GPU (try forcing it through BIOS, maybe?).