Black Screen - "Out of Range"

[Wond3rMuffin]

This is strange. Ive never had a game do this before. When I start this up recently my monitor says "Out of Range and the screen is black. Audio comes through. And I cant minimize the application. Nor will a force quit work. Im stuck rebooting. Anyone know why this is or how to remedy it. This game use to work just fine

[thray]

When did the game quit working fine. Did anything change?

[Wond3rMuffin]

Originally posted by Jeremy Bearimy:

When did the game quit working fine. Did anything change?

I dont know what changed since the last time I fired it up tbh. I very well couldve swapped gpus. I came back to play it again because of the latest chapter. But today is the first day I have had a problem.

[Bendy52]

It used to happen to me when i had a cheap cable to the monitor which made windows see its max res/refresh rate more than it can do actually. so you might want to see if you changed the cable recently or if your monitor has a driver grab it and install it. it fixed the issue for me back in the day.

[thray]

Please post your system specs.

Are you subscribed to the beta?

What mods do you have?

[Wond3rMuffin]

Originally posted by Bendy52:

It used to happen to me when i had a cheap cable to the monitor which made windows see its max res/refresh rate more than it can do actually. so you might want to see if you changed the cable recently or if your monitor has a driver grab it and install it. it fixed the issue for me back in the day.

Thanks. I tried before and after the update of the driver. And I took your suggestion and tried both HDMI and DP. It’s the same. So now I’m thinking it might be refresh rate on another level beyond the cable.

[Wond3rMuffin]

Originally posted by Jeremy Bearimy:

Please post your system specs.

Are you subscribed to the beta?

What mods do you have?

I7-5930k
AMD Vega 64
32gb 3000mhz
Installed on NVME Samsung 970
BenQ 1440p 144hz

I have not subscribed to the beta and I do not have any mods installed.

[Bendy52]

Source games they can be open used special commands also in the shortcut.
im sure that you can force a res and a refresh rate to the game from steam before it start. then adjust once you are inside the game and it working. google how to set custom res and refresh rate to a source game.

[thray]

You can also force a custom resolution in the Launch Options.
Use -w XX -h YY parameters to force a custom resolution
example -w 1024 -h 768

[thray]

Try the automatic config command.

Open Steam
Go to the "Library"
Right-click the game which needs to be reconfigured
Select "Properties" from the menu
Click the "Set launch options..." button
Remove any launch options currently shown.
Type -autoconfig in the box.
4. Remove -autoconfig after a successful launch.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1216-JMTZ-0860#

[thray]

Another fix for black screen is to try “windowed no border” mode.

Run the game in windowed no-border mode.
1. Go to Black Mesa in your Steam Library. Right click on it, click “properties”
2. In the General Tab, click “Set Launch options”
3. In the text prompt, type -windowed -noborder
4. Click Okay, then close the properties window.
5. Launch Black Mesa

[Wond3rMuffin]

Originally posted by Jeremy Bearimy:

Another fix for black screen is to try “windowed no border” mode.

Run the game in windowed no-border mode.
1. Go to Black Mesa in your Steam Library. Right click on it, click “properties”
2. In the General Tab, click “Set Launch options”
3. In the text prompt, type -windowed -noborder
4. Click Okay, then close the properties window.
5. Launch Black Mesa

Ok thanks. I’ll try all the things you and the other guy suggested tonight and let everyone know how it worked.

[Wond3rMuffin]

Also, is there any known problems with 1440p that anyone has heard about?

[Wond3rMuffin]

So, I got it working. I had to launch in -safe and then change resolution in game. Testing now to see if there are any problems

[thray]

Originally posted by Wond3rMuffin:

So, I got it working. I had to launch in -safe and then change resolution in game. Testing now to see if there are any problems

awesome

[Wond3rMuffin]

Originally posted by Jeremy Bearimy:

Originally posted by Wond3rMuffin:

So, I got it working. I had to launch in -safe and then change resolution in game. Testing now to see if there are any problems

awesome

So far so good. I got up to the shotgun. Only minor things that seem off. But nothing game-breaking.