Black Screens (not the common ones)

[BlackDog]

Hi Frictional Games guys, I'm having an strange problem with Amnesia. When I bought it, I started playing it and everything seemed normal, but later on while I was playing, the screen went black for a few seconds over and over again. I mean, I'm playing, the screen goes black, then goes back to normal, and randomly goes black again, this happened all the time not letting me enjoy the Amnesia experience. At firts I tought something with my GPU was wrong, so I payed no mind because I was going to get a new one in few days. Well, today I've recieved my new GPU a NVIDIA GTX 660 OC, but the black screen stuff keeps happening, I have all the newest drivers for the GPU, downloaded this very day, so I dont know why this keeps happening DD:

I hope you can solve the problem so I can start playing Amnesia as soon as possible.

And BTW, I'm from Spain so excuse me if my English went wrong in any part of the post.

[Brosive]

Ok, can you post your hpl.log and can you tell me where you got the game?

[BlackDog]

Ok, can you post your hpl.log and can you tell me where you got the game?

I got it from Steam but I don't know what the hpl.log is D:

[Brosive]

Ok, can you post your hpl.log and can you tell me where you got the game?

I got it from Steam but I don't know what the hpl.log is D:

(Not at my PC with Amnesia, but...)
It should be under something like documents>Amnesia>Main, something like that.

[BlackDog]

Spoiler below!

Version 1.20
-------- 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: 1920x1080 bpp:32 fs:1 ms:0 gpufmt:2 cap:'Amnesia - The Dark Descent - Loading...' pos-1x-1)
Setting video mode: 1920 x 1080 - 32 bpp
Init Glew...OK
Setting up OpenGL
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: GeForce GTX 660/PCIe/SSE2
Version: 4.3.0
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: 4.30 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
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Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL
Available OpenAL devices:
0. Generic Software on M2252D-1 (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)(OpenAL default)
1. Generic Software on Audio digital (S/PDIF) (Dispositivo de High Definition Audio)
Trying to open device 'Generic Software on M2252D-1 (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)'... Success!
Number of mono sources: 32
Streaming setup: 4 Buffers x 262144 bytes each
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Initializing Game Module
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Adding engine updates
Initializing script functions
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User Initialization
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Game Running
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-------- Loading map 'menu_bg.map' ---------
Cache Loading: 581 ms
Entities: 100 ms
Compilation: 0 ms
Total: 689 ms
Meshes created: 26
Bodies created: 5
-------- Loading complete ---------
Setting profile: 'Kirito' Path: 'C:\Users\Miguel\Documents/Amnesia/Main/Kirito/'
-------- BEGIN LOAD FROM C:\Users\Miguel\Documents/Amnesia/Main/Kirito/AutoSave_Distillery_2013_2_18_1_54_7_0.sav ---------
LOADING SAVE GAME!
-------- Loading map '06_distillery.map' ---------
Cache Loading: 4860 ms
Entities: 3553 ms
Compilation: 36 ms
Total: 9490 ms
Meshes created: 272
Bodies created: 98
-------- Loading complete ---------
WARNING: Could not find player start node ''
ERROR: StartPos '' does not exist!
-------- END LOAD ---------
-------- BEGIN SAVE TO: C:\Users\Miguel\Documents/Amnesia/Main/Kirito/AutoSave_Distillery_2013_2_21_18_20_45_0.sav ---------
WARNING: particle system 0 in torch_static01_1 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in torch_static01_2 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in hanging_lantern_ceiling_2 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in hanging_lantern_ceiling_3 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in hanging_lantern_ceiling_4 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in hanging_lantern_ceiling_6 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in hanging_lantern_ceiling_7 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in hanging_lantern_wall_1 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in hanging_lantern_ceiling_8 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in torch_static01_4 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in torch_static01_7 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in torch_static01_8 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in torch_static01_11 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in torch_static01_10 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in torch_static01_12 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in torch_static01_13 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in torch_static01_15 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in candlestick02_1 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in candlestick01_3 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in candle_floor_1 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in candle_floor_2 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in candle_floor_3 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in candle_floor_4 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in candle_floor_6 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in candle_floor_7 does not exist anymore!
WARNING: particle system 0 in torch_static01_3 does not exist anymore!
-------- END SAVE ---------
-------- Loading map 'menu_bg.map' ---------
Cache Loading: 1206 ms
Entities: 648 ms
Compilation: 1 ms
Total: 1871 ms
Meshes created: 26
Bodies created: 5
-------- Loading complete ---------
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Statistics
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Medium framerate: 42.018996
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User Exit
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Saving main config.
Saving user config.
Deleting game modules.
'LuxInputHandler'
'LuxHelpFuncs'
'LuxSaveHandler'
'LuxScriptHandler'
'LuxProgressLogHandler'
'LuxMapHandler'
'LuxMapHelper'
'LuxPlayer'
'LuxInsanityHandler'
'LuxDebugHandler'
'LuxEffectRenderer'
'LuxMusicHandler'
'LuxMusicHandler'
'LuxEffectHandler'
'LuxCompletionCountHandler'
'LuxGlobalDataHandler'
'LuxHintHandler'
'LuxPostEffectHandler'
'LuxPreMenu'
'LuxDebugHandler'
'LuxInventory'
'LuxJournal'
'LuxCredits'
'LuxLoadScreenHandler'
Deleting config files.
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Exiting Gui Module
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Deleting all sets
Deleting all skins
Deleting all gfx elements
Deleting all materials
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Exiting Generate Module
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Exiting Scene Module
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Exiting Input Module
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Exiting Sound Module
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Exiting Graphics Module
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Exiting Resources Module
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Done with fonts
Done with scripts
Done with particles
Done with sounds
Done with meshes
Done with materials
Done with Gpu programs
Done with images
Destroyed all textures
Done with sound entities
Done with animations
Done with ent files
All resources deleted
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Exiting Physics Module
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Exiting System Module
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Deleting game setup provided by user
- Deleting lowlevel stuff.
Physics
Sound
Input
Resources
System
Graphics
Haptic
HPL Exit was successful!

|--Memory Manager Report-------------------------------|
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| No memory leaks detected. Memory left: 0
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[plutomaniac]

have you tried a file integrity check via steam?

[BlackDog]

No, how do I do that?

[plutomaniac]

Problem J: http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-3754.html

[BlackDog]

It's says something like all the files have been validated correctly

[TheBlastPassage]

Great, now see if the game runs. If not, update video card drivers