Black bug, outside only

[Oilsmoke]

I am the Friend Divitor was asking for.
MY system is useing Crossfire MSI hd5770 lighting cards newest 10.11 drivers. I play BFBC2 & Black Ops mostly I am a Old SH3 fan ansd installed SH5 about 2 months ago looked around a little played for a few hour and when back to Black ops Yesturday I tried agian and The interface controls are there But when i look outside all is Black when i switch view I get a small flash of color on the top 2 inches of the monitor for an instant. I sure feel like a driver issuse but i need the 10.11 for BFBC2. I will watch this for updates. Oh i think at the time for install i was 9.7 and all was good then.
If anybody need more info from me ask i will reply.
Oh the is the clean install of patched 1.2 also. No mods new drive & OS is very fresh.

[Dragnet]

Originally Posted by james_IL

I also had this problem on my 5970 and turning on catylist ai solved my problem. I also turned down mip map to second highest setting.

Do you mean *turn Catalyst AI off*? This helped for me now when I tested.

Maybe I should blame ATI instead of Ubisoft this time

[divittor]

Oilsmoke got the bug sorted tweaking his ATI settings. I'll ask him to post what he did.
It was an ATI graphics issue causing the outside scenery not to draw.

[Dragnet]

^^

In my case I just turn ATI "A.I." off and the problem went away.

[Oilsmoke]

OK i am sorry for the delay.
I i rolled my ati drivers to version 10.8 and the game runs fine.
i was using 10.11 when i tried the SH5 on my new SSD drive and the screen was blacked out in the outside view. so i would say the ATI drivers set 10.0 & 10.11 are cuase the problem I have not tried the newest set 10.12 yet.

later all
Oilsmoke

[Trondheim77]

i have the same issue with nvidia i cant upgrade nvidia driver for some reason
on silent hunter 5 but mine pc has the latest nvidia driver weird but true!
when i start on dock there is no black screen but when i start true mission i gott black screen and the game crashes! got stuck.

cheers

[Trondheim77]

[kvbrock82]

The problem is because the game doesnt support XFire.

I am running on an HD5970 which has 2 GPU cores. When Calatalyst AI is on it means it is using both cores but many visual glitches and bugs arise due to its incompatability. It was the same with SH4.

[Trondheim77]

Itt might be sound driver becouse after reinnstalling sound driver itt worked bether now!
I updated the sund driver and after that i gett weird screens on SH5.

[silent shadow]

Hi Guys

I had same black screen bug on the bridge and through periscope views.

I am using ati 5970 with I7 (six core) cpu.

I fixed the problem by turning off two of the cpu cores via the task manager. The game doesn't seem to support any more than four cores.

I hope this helps

[bigduke666]

Hi all

Any news on the black screen fix for the ati 5970 with 11.3 drivers?
I have tried all the above but still a black screen

[Oilsmoke]

Are you useing crossfired cards if So turn it off, this solved my problem in windows 7. Now i can play & see in the 3d world.

[bigduke666]

Oilsmoke

No i dont have crossfire - just the one 5970

[Oilsmoke]

Damm i hoped you did. Not sure what to tell you than. 11.3 are the ones i use. But i was running crossfired 5770 msi cards after i turned my corssfire off it worked. Just a note but it ran fine in XP. you could roll back to a 10.8 or so and see if that helps. I read it worked for a few other.

Good Luck.

[bigduke666]

Hi All

I have just downloaded the new ati 11.4 drivers and i still get the black outside screen - please help

Hpw do i disable catylist ai - there is no disable button, just says performance, quality or high quality?