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Title: Black Screen
Post by: Nihilus 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.

Title: Re: Black Screen
Post by: MLeo 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\.

Title: Re: Black Screen
Post by: Nihilus 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.

Title: Re: Black Screen
Post by: MLeo on May 13, 2009, 06:05:08 PM

I hope you mean BC and not Windows! :P

Title: Re: Black Screen
Post by: Nihilus on May 13, 2009, 06:08:09 PM

lol, Yeah I'm reinstalling the game.

Title: Re: Black Screen
Post by: Nihilus 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

Title: Re: Black Screen
Post by: MLeo 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.

Title: Re: Black Screen
Post by: Nihilus 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.

Title: Re: Black Screen
Post by: Barihawk 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.

Title: Re: Black Screen
Post by: majormagna 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...

Title: Re: Black Screen
Post by: MLeo 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.