White Screen?

[Shteiny]

ok so baisically (spelling is not the best today) i have both DS1 and DS2 and i want to play them in order but the problem with DS1 is that it doesn't work at all ill explain what happenes: 1) i launch the game. 2) it opens up in a white windowed mode (it doesn't give me any errors).
that is the problem all in all but i have yet to find a fix and belive me i looked everywhere.
so if anyone can help me here are somethings that might help you recognize my problem: i have recently reset my pc so it is a fresh install of DS1, i also have windows 10.

[Derikay]

I can help! :D


I had this happen as well on my laptop. But without sound. My laptop has Intel Integrated Graphics as well as a Nvidia GTX 980M. What I had to do was force the game to initially run with the integrated graphics. I set the game to run at my desired resolution and to run at full screen. I then exited the game, and used the Nvidia control panel to set my default graphics back to my Nvidia card. Then, when I ran the game, it came up properly.

[Shteiny]

those are the exact specs i have do you have an msi?
and also could you please dumb down what you said so it's easier for me to follow (im not good with computers

[Derikay]

I just had this happen to me since I'm also on a laptop:

1) Right-click on your desktop, then open NVIDIA Control Panel
2) Head to "Manage 3D Settings" > Program Settings > Select Dark Souls (darksouls.exe), or add it if it isn't there.
3) Select the preferred graphics processor for the program: "Integrated Graphics"

Then the game launches properly.

4) In the menu PC Settings, change it to Fullscreen and select your resolution
5) Quit the game

Open NVIDIA Control Panel again and this time select High-performance NVIDIA Processor and you're done.


Is that easier?

[ApToo]

thanks for the help ive been having the same problem now it runs fine

[Knight Negev]

my game runs fine with one exception,when i take the stairs down to centipede demon after the firesage, it crashes as soon as the fog gate appears on screen. i hope the above solution also fixes my problem :P

[Anna]

My DS game won't even start... Steam shows I'm playing but no window pops up, then after a few seconds I'm shown not playing again. And nothing happens. I've seen sb posting the same problem on another thread which was redirected here...
I'm on Win7, I played the game in December 2014 but then I had to take a long break and now it couldn't launch, I uninstalled the local files and re-installed the game, when this didn't help I changed into beta and I think I still have the DSfix thing (unless it disappeared with the deinstallation?). That's all.
and when I want to try out the above suggested sollution to white screen(just in case if it woudl work for my problem too), I can't figure out how to make the point 3. Select the preferred graphics processor for the program: "Integrated Graphics" (my laptop is not in English and I can't find any option I could think of being translated from 'Integrated Graphics', is sb could post screens with this option's localisation marked? I'm also not into computer stuff=dumb for clever explainatons/instructions^^;)

PS. DS2 works

[말랑말랑조랑말]

Originally posted by Brandon:

I just had this happen to me since I'm also on a laptop:

1) Right-click on your desktop, then open NVIDIA Control Panel
2) Head to "Manage 3D Settings" > Program Settings > Select Dark Souls (darksouls.exe), or add it if it isn't there.
3) Select the preferred graphics processor for the program: "Integrated Graphics"

Then the game launches properly.

4) In the menu PC Settings, change it to Fullscreen and select your resolution
5) Quit the game

Open NVIDIA Control Panel again and this time select High-performance NVIDIA Processor and you're done.


Is that easier?

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you very much!!!!!!

[Nono]

thank you ! i searched this solution for hours !!!!

[Derikay]

Originally posted by Nono:

thank you ! i searched this solution for hours !!!!

Welcome :)\

[Zennbomb]

This worked for me too. I was lucky enough to find your post after a few minutes of searching rather than hours.

[Derikay]

Originally posted by sakufel:

This worked for me too. I was lucky enough to find your post after a few minutes of searching rather than hours.

Welcome :)

[Anna]

Originally posted by Anna:

My DS game won't even start... Steam shows I'm playing but no window pops up, then after a few seconds I'm shown not playing again. And nothing happens. I've seen sb posting the same problem on another thread which was redirected here...
I'm on Win7, I played the game in December 2014 but then I had to take a long break and now it couldn't launch, I uninstalled the local files and re-installed the game, when this didn't help I changed into beta and I think I still have the DSfix thing (unless it disappeared with the deinstallation?). That's all.
and when I want to try out the above suggested sollution to white screen(just in case if it woudl work for my problem too), I can't figure out how to make the point 3. Select the preferred graphics processor for the program: "Integrated Graphics" (my laptop is not in English and I can't find any option I could think of being translated from 'Integrated Graphics', is sb could post screens with this option's localisation marked? I'm also not into computer stuff=dumb for clever explainatons/instructions^^;)

PS. DS2 works

Anyone could help, at elast with the screenshot, please?

[kwendion]

well i dont find anything to fix this problem since i dont have an integrated card, only the dedicated , any ideas?. thanks

[commander]

Originally posted by jrmoreno85:

well i dont find anything to fix this problem since i dont have an integrated card, only the dedicated , any ideas?. thanks

Try this guide, and make sure your hardware is at least decent.
I'm sure it is if you can play Dark Souls 3.

The extra mods aren't necessary if you can't use them on a low end PC.

Do testing to see what works best on your PC.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/211420/discussions/0/364039531219963518/#c364039531220088403

[JB]

Thanks a lot, worked for me !