Getting Sound But No Image - Black Screen

jcope · 10-01-14, 11:32 PM

Ok, I'll check that out.

merc4ulfate · 10-02-14, 11:49 AM

By the way I do not see a mention of what OS your using??

jcope · 10-02-14, 01:04 PM

Windows 8.1. It's taking some getting used to.

jcope · 10-04-14, 06:17 PM

So I overcame this problem, after seeing a remark in another post.

I can now play the game using the NVidia processor, but not in full screen mode. Only windowed mode.

The solution was to go to C:\Users\jcope\Documents\SH4\data\cfg and find the file called main.cfg. In that file, edit the resolution line to something less than 1900x1080, and make sure FullScreen=No, as shown below.

[VIDEO]
Resolution=1600,900,60,22
DynamicShadows=No
FullScreen=No
Synchronized=No
TextureResolutionHigh=Yes

When the game runs, it comes up in a window, still showing the black screen, but after the intro videos (fail to) play, when I click back onto the game window, the visuals appear and the game runs just fine. Maybe the intro videos could be made to run, but I'll live without them.

Thanks for the responses. I hope this solution is useful to someone else.

merc4ulfate · 10-04-14, 09:59 PM

I would hate to play in windowed mode.

jcope · 10-11-14, 06:53 PM

Happy update: I found windowed mode at 1600x900 to be tolerable, but a little exhausting when you are required to read bearings/headings on the sonar controls and plotting on the navigation map at the pixel level.

Based on something I read online, I decided to try to run the game as administrator. And viola, that allowed me to finally run at full resolution, full screen. How nice that is going to be: no more distracting desktop icons to ignore, no more peering at the screen straining my eyes.

TorpX · 10-11-14, 10:05 PM

Yeah, that sounds a lot better.

10-02-14, 11:49 AM	#2
merc4ulfate DILLIGAF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: florida Posts: 2,058 Downloads: 210 Uploads: 0	By the way I do not see a mention of what OS your using?? __________________ Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. ~Isaac Asimov~ Mercfulfate 将補日本帝國海軍

10-04-14, 09:59 PM	#5
merc4ulfate DILLIGAF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: florida Posts: 2,058 Downloads: 210 Uploads: 0	I would hate to play in windowed mode. __________________ Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. ~Isaac Asimov~ Mercfulfate 将補日本帝國海軍

10-01-14, 11:32 PM	#1
jcope Bosun Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 66 Downloads: 34 Uploads: 0	Ok, I'll check that out.

10-02-14, 01:04 PM	#3
jcope Bosun Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 66 Downloads: 34 Uploads: 0	Windows 8.1. It's taking some getting used to.

10-04-14, 06:17 PM	#4
jcope Bosun Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 66 Downloads: 34 Uploads: 0	So I overcame this problem, after seeing a remark in another post. I can now play the game using the NVidia processor, but not in full screen mode. Only windowed mode. The solution was to go to C:\Users\jcope\Documents\SH4\data\cfg and find the file called main.cfg. In that file, edit the resolution line to something less than 1900x1080, and make sure FullScreen=No, as shown below. [VIDEO] Resolution=1600,900,60,22 DynamicShadows=No FullScreen=No Synchronized=No TextureResolutionHigh=Yes When the game runs, it comes up in a window, still showing the black screen, but after the intro videos (fail to) play, when I click back onto the game window, the visuals appear and the game runs just fine. Maybe the intro videos could be made to run, but I'll live without them. Thanks for the responses. I hope this solution is useful to someone else.

10-11-14, 06:53 PM	#6
jcope Bosun Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 66 Downloads: 34 Uploads: 0	Happy update: I found windowed mode at 1600x900 to be tolerable, but a little exhausting when you are required to read bearings/headings on the sonar controls and plotting on the navigation map at the pixel level. Based on something I read online, I decided to try to run the game as administrator. And viola, that allowed me to finally run at full resolution, full screen. How nice that is going to be: no more distracting desktop icons to ignore, no more peering at the screen straining my eyes.

10-11-14, 10:05 PM	#7
TorpX Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 3,975 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 11	Yeah, that sounds a lot better.