Black screen in battle or map solution that worked for me

[Captain Fancypants]

This is what solved my problem with the screen going black and you still hearing sounds.

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My screen would go black sometimes on the campaign map and sometimes on the battlefield. I'm not sure if this will help people that suffer from the black screen with sound on the titlepage after the intro video, but give it a try.

I had this problem and I fixed it. It seems that the game had directx11 features enabled by default and older cards make game to crash because cant support it.

What I did was to

1. go to the config file C:\Users\"your username"\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Rome2\scripts\preferences.script.txt (make a backup copy just in case) and open it.

2. Press CTRL+F and search for "directx". You will find this
"gfx_enable_directx11 true; # gfx_enable_directx11 , Enable DirectX 11 rendering #"

3. Put "gfx_enable_directx11" to "false;" and delete the rest. Careful to be separated right with "#" from rest.
I dont know if this exact change on config file is the best but it worked. Save and close the file.

4. Start the game. Graphics should have changed to lowest. No worries. You can go to graphics settings and change what ever you wish but "shader model" should be locked on "3" and dont let you change it.
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I didn't notice any change in graphics settings, but maybe I just got lucky. Anyways.. this worked for me. Been playing it solid as a rock for the last 2 hours with no black screen with sound.

[alansaund]

How To Get Rid Of Black Battlefield Graphics & Black Shadows

If you are getting black graphics on the battlefield & black shadows
this is how to fix it.

open.

Compute/C drive/User/Your Name/AppData/Roming/The Creative Assembly/Rome2/scripts/preferences.script

And find the line that says

gfx_enable_directx11 true; # gfx_enable_directx11 <bool>, Enable DirectX 11 rendering #

And change the word from true to false.
So it looks like this

gfx_enable_directx11 false; # gfx_enable_directx11 <bool>, Enable DirectX 11 rendering #

Then Save.

Hay Presto.....Sorted

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