My solution to the black screen

[shukujo]

So I had the same issue a lot of people are having: a black screen upon trying to boot this game up. I cut and pasted the ddraw.dll & d3d9.dll files to my desktop, went to the Compatibility tab in the properties for the Game.exe, checked the boxes for Run as Admin & Run in 640 x 480 mode, and also checked the option to run the game in Windows 7 compatibility mode. It's now running smoothly. If that changes, I'll post again. Hope this helps someone besides me.

[186fleetstreet]

I tried. That didn't work. I'll try in one of the earlier Windows compatibility modes.

[186fleetstreet]

Originally posted by 186fleetstreet:

I tried. That didn't work. I'll try in one of the earlier Windows compatibility modes.

I tried going back to earlier versions of Windows, even on way back as Windows 98 (since I think that's one of the Windows versions the game was originally compatible with). That didn't help.

[|>~_L337_|v|4$73|2_~<|]

right click on the game name from the library
select: properties
select: Local Files
press: Verify integrity of game files
when its done
select: Betas
and select Fullscreen without DXWND

[186fleetstreet]

I went into the properties menu, and I'm not seeing local files.

[|>~_L337_|v|4$73|2_~<|]

did you right click on the game name from the library ?
dont right click the icon from the desktop

[186fleetstreet]

You didn't say from the library the first time...

[|>~_L337_|v|4$73|2_~<|]

I fixed it now

[186fleetstreet]

Thanks. It worked.

[|>~_L337_|v|4$73|2_~<|]

you are welcome

[verifiedVirus]

nice job it worked :D thanks

[Mistabullit]

I ensure that I'm running game.exe in windows XP SP3 compat mode. This seems to fix things on my end.

[palebeetle]

Originally posted by shukujo:

So I had the same issue a lot of people are having: a black screen upon trying to boot this game up. I cut and pasted the ddraw.dll & d3d9.dll files to my desktop, went to the Compatibility tab in the properties for the Game.exe, checked the boxes for Run as Admin & Run in 640 x 480 mode, and also checked the option to run the game in Windows 7 compatibility mode. It's now running smoothly. If that changes, I'll post again. Hope this helps someone besides me.

This worked for me. Thanks

[ElaineMarley]

Originally posted by |>~_L337_|v|4$73|2_~<|:

right click on the game name from the library
select: properties
select: Local Files
press: Verify integrity of game files
when its done
select: Betas
and select Fullscreen without DXWND

Thank you very much. I was going crazy!

[t.p.rj]

Originally posted by |>~_L337_|v|4$73|2_~<|:

right click on the game name from the library
select: properties
select: Local Files
press: Verify integrity of game files
when its done
select: Betas
and select Fullscreen without DXWND

Did not worked for me.

[|>~_L337_|v|4$73|2_~<|]

Originally posted by t.p.rj:

Originally posted by |>~_L337_|v|4$73|2_~<|:

right click on the game name from the library
select: properties
select: Local Files
press: Verify integrity of game files
when its done
select: Betas
and select Fullscreen without DXWND

Did not worked for me.

I just checked it again and it still works on windows 7 for me