Freeze / Crash to black screen on launch?

[pixelfishy]

When I launch Five Nights at Freddy's, my screen turns solid black, and the computer stops responding entirely.
I have waited several minutes at this black screen, but nothing changes.
I then have to reset the whole computer to get back to windows.

Any thoughts or suggestions are much appreciated. :)

OS: Win7-Pro x64 (SP1)
CPU: 6 cores at 3.4GHz (Intel core i7-4930K)
RAM: 16GB
GFX: GTX780 Ti (Drivers are up to date.)
Res: 1920x1200 (16:10)

[Zeknafein]

I do have the same problem and haven't found anything yet...

[pixelfishy]

Update:
If I run the game in a sandbox it seems to work.
I'm using Comodo Sandbox, which is a part of Comodo Firewall.
It's very possible that Comodo Firewall itself is contributing to the problem. Not sure.

(Sorry to hear that Zeknafein. With luck the above might help out.)

[Zeknafein]

I'll give it a shot thanx for the reply and the help!

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I think it's a matter of your color scheme like I use win 7 pro and it has to change to windows 7 basic because of it (the game) using an older graphic used for games. Just saying as a referance just trying to help.

[pixelfishy]

Update:
Okay, I've also managed to get it running by:
disabling my firewall, (disabling internet first), and
running the executable directly, by right clicking it an choosing "Run as administrator".

I also closed a bunch of stuff in the system tray (icons at far-right of taskbar), just to be safe, but I'm not sure if that was necessary.

I did not need to run it in a sandbox this time, and it seems to run just fine under the above conditions.



As an aside, I've heard a lot of people reporting that the "Adobe Creative Cloud" process conflicts with the game, and ending the process resolved the crashing in most of those cases. A few other programs that run in the system tray have the same effect.

I don't have Adobe Creative Cloud, or any of the other system tray programs I saw mentioned. So those specific programs were not the problem in my case. However, the link between crashes and system tray stuff does seem to be a tenuous pattern, and that is why I closed as much system tray stuff as I could, to be on the safe side.



I've also heard that setting the Windows color mode to an older compatibility setting can help, but I did not have to do this in my case.

My monitor has changed since my first post. It is now 2560x1440 (16:9) at 144Htz. Before trying the solution I described above, I tried just updating my graphics drivers, but when I ran it from Steam I got the black screen crash that requires a reboot, so my now different resolution and refresh rate don't seem to affect the playability of the game, at least not in my case. I suspect that my above solution would have worked on my old monitor as well.

I'll try a few other methods of running it and post back here with my findings. But for now, it works without being sandboxed, so I can save progress, and that's good enough for me. :)



Thus I've finally played a bit of FNAF, and ... the pirate really has it in for me. :[

Anyway, hope this info helps someone out. :)