can't land due to black screen

[AnneFrankFanfiction]

I have to go through a landing sequence in the campaign. A few seconds after starting the landing sequence, the screen goes completely black. I'm not able to see again until I've already crashed. Am I just supposed to land completely blind? I even tried doing it with the flight assist on.

I'm pretty sure I'd be able to do it through trial and error if retrying didn't take so long due to having to fly about 10k with a busted engine before starting the sequence.

[Skybreaker]

Originally posted by TrumpenReich:

Am I just supposed to land completely blind?

Nope. This is some sort of a bug on your side.
If restarting the game and replaying the mission from the beginning is not enough to fix the problem, I think you should check you videocard drivers. If they are up to date and installed correctly, then you can try to temporarily downgrade to an older version of drivers.

[AnneFrankFanfiction]

Originally posted by Sleeper:

Originally posted by TrumpenReich:

Am I just supposed to land completely blind?

Nope. This is some sort of a bug on your side.
If restarting the game and replaying the mission from the beginning is not enough to fix the problem, I think you should check you videocard drivers. If they are up to date and installed correctly, then you can try to temporarily downgrade to an older version of drivers.

As far as I can tell (and I've tried many times in previous situations where that's been recommended), there's no practical way of doing that. It seems to require completely uninstalling my drivers, downloading the old ones, reinstalling them, restarting, and repeating this process every time for every version I want to try, and then of course I'd have to re-do that every time I want to play something that isn't best run on obsolete versions of my drivers.

Some googling suggests that the best course of action is to run it in compatability mode, but that just makes the game crash on startup.

I don't have any particular hope that this is going to be fixed, so I guess the game just doesn't work anymore.

[BEAST OF CAERBANNOG]

I'm going through the exact same thing. Everything is up to date on video card drivers and I have reinstalled it twice. *sigh*

[Patchy-sama]

Saw in another thread that running the exe in windows 7 mode fixes the black screen. It worked for me.

[Sharkfin]

Originally posted by Patchy-sama:

Saw in another thread that running the exe in windows 7 mode fixes the black screen. It worked for me.

Thanks this also fixed my black screen on that mission (after AC-130 on ruins). All I did was locate the .exe in the game install file, right-click -> properties, then select Compatibility mode for window 7 instead of 8 ( I am using window 10 ). Run the game from Steam again to install Microsoft VC and viola.

[千层面]

Originally posted by Patchy-sama:

Saw in another thread that running the exe in windows 7 mode fixes the black screen. It worked for me.

Thanks! that's a big help to my same situation. but it's arguable that I try to get lower at first during landing may work too. Maybe it's just a control lost so some compensation could help. thx again!