Testmode difficulties; unable to get to the console

[Rodecap]

Emailed it to you.

[MLeo]

Right, so you don't have a mainmenu.py

Did you install the Foundation (and the patch) before any mods?

[Rodecap]

I am currently mod/patch free

[MLeo]

Do any other games have the same problems?

Do you have the latest drivers? Or just the drivers that came with Windows?

Also, have you tried the DXDIAG?
Go to start->run type in dxdiag, press Enter and wait for it to start up (see the progress bar on the screen).

Now go to the Display tab, and press "Test Direct3D".

[Rodecap]

All of my other games run just fine....maybe it's a bad disk?

[MLeo]

Making your computer fail so consistenly?
Maybe.

What operating system are you using?

[Rodecap]

XP SP:2, it never fails on my games, and I've run more graphically demanding programs than Bridge Commander.

Medieval:Total War II, EVE online, Oblivion, etc...

[MLeo]

Install the patch, and see if that helps.

[Rodecap]

Nothing.

[MLeo]

Did you delete the options.cfg as well?

Has BC ever worked?
If so:
What's different from then?
Why did you have to reinstall?
If you did reinstall, did you do that on top of your original install?

[Rodecap]

I REINSTALLED because I thought that there was something wrong with my install (it was actually a mod malfunction) it DID work at one time. As for difference, I don't know what's different, because I don't think anything is...just today, I have uninstalled and deleted BC files about 5 times, and reinstalled them, but I can't find anything that works.

[MLeo]

Have you tried installing to a different directory?
Say, outside Program Files (C:\Games\Bridge Commander)?

[Rodecap]

I hate to bother you again, Mleo (seems like you have some other headaches right now) but my problem is back, but now I have it with a totally new copy. Well, close to new, the disk is in perfect shape.....and when I go to play the game, nothing. No patches, no mods, just the vanilla game; and it's still crashing my computer. Maybe if I install to a new directory, it'd correct itself....

[MLeo]

I hate to put it like this, but that is exactly what I've been saying the whole time....

[Rodecap]

Well, that didn't even work....there has to be something going on and I'm determined to find it. I really don't want to give up this game.

[Rodecap]

Hm. I think I made a breakthrough. I installed your Unified main menu, and now I can see a cursor, which I can move. Still a black screen, but at least now I can exit it.

[Rodecap]

Ugh! okay, I'm seriously thinking about just trashing it. I spent eighty dollars on a game that isn't going to work regardless. I've tried, I think, every trick in the book, it seems, and none of them have worked.
I have:
-installed into a new directory
-installed patches
-tried running vanilla
-tried messing with the display options
-tried running in test mode
-tried running with select mods
-deleted options.cfg (about a million times)
-replaced MainMenu scripts with Unified Main Menu scripts.

I'm running out of options, unless I just go for it and wipe the entire hard disk and start over.

[MLeo]

How did you start the game?
I suggest you create a new shortcut (from the directory of the new directory) and change that to use the -TestMode, and try it through there.

Because it's _impossible_ to have the same issue if you run it from the new directory without mods.

[Rodecap]

I wiped my hard drive (kept most of my files on an external, though) and guess what? That fixed her up! There must have been something wrong with my windows configuration. Thanks!

[MLeo]

I fear you kept running your old installation, the one with the problems. And to which you installed BC over lingering files. But that's just me.