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Title: Quick Battle goes to a black screen when loading, no cursor, I can hear music...
Post by: TheConstable6 on May 02, 2010, 07:45:32 PM
I installed KM 2009 and a bunch of other ships. This ran flawlessly for a few months but today I installed the SFP/BC2 E7 & C9 (inseresting I had downloaded the HOK previously and never got this problem) and plugged them in w/ BCMP, which seems to have screwed with my install in some way, probably something to do with the scripts. I have no idea what the problem is, and when I hit escape after the screen goes black I can get back to the main menu. Galaxy Charts also does the same thing. BC does not crash, and I can't see the yellow cursor, and I can hear the loading music. Again, I've never had this problem before.

{EDIT: I quit the program, and now it won't even launch! I get a C++ error, some rubbish about "fullscreen mode not supported"}
Title: Re: Quick Battle goes to a black screen when loading, no cursor, I can hear music...
Post by: Nebula on May 02, 2010, 08:04:48 PM
yeah delete the options.cfg file in the bc main directory.... also please don't use BCMP anymore get BCUT

and please check out how to get a console report.
Title: Re: Quick Battle goes to a black screen when loading, no cursor, I can hear music...
Post by: TheConstable6 on May 02, 2010, 08:36:37 PM
Sorry y'all, I'm stupider than even I thought...... :banghead:
Stupid BCMP. I'm reinstalling w/ BCUT.
Title: Re: Quick Battle goes to a black screen when loading, no cursor, I can hear music...
Post by: deadthunder2_0 on May 02, 2010, 11:12:08 PM
someone needs to just delete BCMP, and BCMI from file front
Title: Re: Quick Battle goes to a black screen when loading, no cursor, I can hear music...
Post by: Mario on May 02, 2010, 11:25:10 PM
There is no need to do a full reinstall.

However there might be some issues if you are on vista or win 7 and the game is installed in program files directory.

To get a better understanding of the situation please tell us which windows version do you use before I make any further suggestions.

Also you might like the mod installer in BCUT, it automatically unpacks mod archives (rar, zip..) and installs the mod to the game.
Title: Re: Quick Battle goes to a black screen when loading, no cursor, I can hear music...
Post by: King Class Scout on May 03, 2010, 07:47:35 AM
you guys don't look at the download stats on FF, do you?
the usual order of downloads goes like this
Patch
Ship of the week 1
BCMI
BCMP
Ship of the week two

they really should take BCMI and BCMP off of filefront completely, BUT...
Title: Re: Quick Battle goes to a black screen when loading, no cursor, I can hear music...
Post by: deadthunder2_0 on May 03, 2010, 08:02:35 AM
you guys don't look at the download stats on FF, do you?
the usual order of downloads goes like this
Patch
Ship of the week 1
BCMI
BCMP
Ship of the week two

they really should take BCMI and BCMP off of filefront completely, BUT...
Patch
Ship of the week 1
BCUT
Ship of the week two
they really should take BCMI and BCMP off of filefront completely, BUT...
Just what i said
Title: Re: Quick Battle goes to a black screen when loading, no cursor, I can hear music...
Post by: Mario on May 03, 2010, 11:25:25 AM
Unless the author requests a take down, it will not be taken down.
Title: Re: Quick Battle goes to a black screen when loading, no cursor, I can hear music...
Post by: teleguy on May 03, 2010, 11:40:49 AM
But maybe it can be moved to the Outdated Abyss?
Title: Re: Quick Battle goes to a black screen when loading, no cursor, I can hear music...
Post by: King Class Scout on May 03, 2010, 11:52:59 AM
they allready ARE in the outdated abyss.  but the access to them is not blocked, because there are still people with old comps around.  they work better with some older comps.  also, older mods still call for BCMI/BCMP, because BCUT wasn't concieved yet.
Title: Re: Quick Battle goes to a black screen when loading, no cursor, I can hear music...
Post by: Mario on May 03, 2010, 11:58:08 AM
But maybe it can be moved to the Outdated Abyss?

Per author request IIRC.

they allready ARE in the outdated abyss.  but the access to them is not blocked, because there are still people with old comps around.  they work better with some older comps.  also, older mods still call for BCMI/BCMP, because BCUT wasn't concieved yet.

No they aren't. BCMP is in outdated abyss but BCMI isn't. BCMP is there because BCMI was released and is the successor of BCMP.


Besides there are still some people who prefer to use BCMP over BCUT I suppose. We can't impose our own will to them, no matter what you or I or the rest of the community may think.
Title: Re: Quick Battle goes to a black screen when loading, no cursor, I can hear music...
Post by: TheConstable6 on May 12, 2010, 01:36:26 PM
Turns out it was an issue w/ my Foundation.