Black Screen

[Nihilus]

Of Death.  When I click to play Bridge Commander it just loads up a black screen with a yellow Starfleet cursor.  I tried opening the game in TestMode using the TestMode.bat way but when I hit ` and enter is does nothing.

[MLeo]

You are starting through the .bat file, right?

Are you on a not XP (or earlier) windows (for example Vista)? If so, then please uninstall the game, and install it to something like C:\Games\ instead of C:\Program Files\.

[Nihilus]

I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium.  It came with the computer.  I'll uninstall it and reinstall now like you said to see what happens.

[MLeo]

I hope you mean BC and not Windows!

[Nihilus]

lol, Yeah I'm reinstalling the game.

[Nihilus]

I installed the game to C:\Games\ and it seems to work now.  I assume it's just one more thing about Vista that's irritating? lol

[MLeo]

Nah, not really, it's more of a case of BC not understanding what Vista is doing because of security.

[Nihilus]

Ah yeah, that makes sense.  Thanks for your help.  I've been waiting a long time to finally play this game and Mod it.

[Barihawk]

Just make sure when you are installing mods to manually change the directory they install to. Plagued me to death when I first started playing BC on Vista .

[majormagna]

Well I have Vista Home Premium, and BC worked fine in C:/Program Files/Activision...

 I only uninstalled it because the game itself wouldn't let me change the menu system...

[MLeo]

Sometimes it can work, like when you are use Vista unsafely (when logging in as administrator or when UAT is disabled). Then it can work correctly in Vista.