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Offline Nihilus

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Black Screen
« on: May 13, 2009, 05:58:00 PM »
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.
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Offline MLeo

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Re: Black Screen
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2009, 06:01:57 PM »
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\.
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Offline Nihilus

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Re: Black Screen
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2009, 06:03:27 PM »
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.
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Offline MLeo

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Re: Black Screen
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2009, 06:05:08 PM »
I hope you mean BC and not Windows! :P
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Offline Nihilus

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Re: Black Screen
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2009, 06:08:09 PM »
lol, Yeah I'm reinstalling the game.
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Offline Nihilus

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Re: Black Screen
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2009, 06:15:15 PM »
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
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Offline MLeo

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Re: Black Screen
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2009, 06:18:03 PM »
Nah, not really, it's more of a case of BC not understanding what Vista is doing because of security.
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Offline Nihilus

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Re: Black Screen
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2009, 06:31:41 PM »
Ah yeah, that makes sense.  Thanks for your help.  I've been waiting a long time to finally play this game and Mod it.
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Re: Black Screen
« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2009, 08:38:34 AM »
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 :P.
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Re: Black Screen
« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2009, 09:12:45 AM »
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...
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Re: Black Screen
« Reply #10 on: May 15, 2009, 12:26:56 PM »
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.
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