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Amnesia black screen problem...
IovelenoTenebrae Offline
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Solved: 8 Years, 8 Months, 3 Weeks ago Amnesia black screen problem...

Okay, so... Some days (or weeks xD) ago, I bought Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I installed it and it didn't show any errors, but when I try to launch the game, I see a black screen. I don't hear any music or anything, and I have to restart my computer.

So, I searched how to fix it and I saw I had to update my drivers. I did it and the same happened (at least I could press alt + F4 without having to restart my computer lol), and when I launch it again, it says "Last settings crashed the game, returning to default settings", something like that xD

And here I saw the problem. My graphics card is a S3G VIA UniChrome Pro IGP.

So that means that I have to buy a new graphics card to play it? Is there another way to fix it?

Thanks for the help :3 And sorry if my english is wrong at some parts xP
08-21-2011, 04:15 AM
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plutomaniac Offline
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Solved: 8 Years, 8 Months, 3 Weeks ago RE: Amnesia black screen problem...

The list that you found hasn't been updated since 2007 and it refers to Frictional Games previous game series: Penumbra. Judging from the name of the graphics card you have, it must be ancient. Attach us here the file HPL.log found under Documents\Amnesia\Main folder but in order to play the game you need to buy a new graphics card.
08-21-2011, 08:12 AM
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Solved: 8 Years, 8 Months, 3 Weeks ago RE: Amnesia black screen problem...

(08-21-2011, 08:12 AM)plutomaniac Wrote: The list that you found hasn't been updated since 2007 and it refers to Frictional Games previous game series: Penumbra. Judging from the name of the graphics card you have, it must be ancient. Attach us here the file HPL.log found under Documents\Amnesia\Main folder but in order to play the game you need to buy a new graphics card.

It is? I thought it was from both. Well, Penumbra doesn't seem like it's working, either. Lol

Here's the HPL.log



-------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------
Engine build ID 20100818114615

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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Setting video mode: 1024 x 768 - 32 bpp
Init Glew...OK
Setting up OpenGL
Vendor: S3 Graphics
Renderer: VIA/S3G UniChrome Pro IGP/MMX/SSE
Version: 1.2
Max texture image units: 3
Max texture coord units: 4
Max user clip planes: 6
Two sided stencil: 0
Vertex Buffer Object: 0
Anisotropic filtering: 0
Multisampling: 1
Texture compression: 1
Texture compression S3TC: 1
Auto generate MipMaps: 0
Render to texture: 0
Max draw buffers: 13
Max color render targets: 21
Packed depth-stencil: 0
Texture float: 0
GLSL Version: (null)
ShaderModel 2: 0
ShaderModel 3: 1
ShaderModel 4: 0
OGL ATIFragmentShader: 0
08-21-2011, 07:21 PM
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Solved: 8 Years, 8 Months, 3 Weeks ago RE: Amnesia black screen problem...

Your graphic card is ancient, you cannot play the game as it needs at least OpenGL 2.1

08-21-2011, 10:02 PM
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