Win 10, Black Screen, Eventually Runs Issue

[ZombieKidzRule!]

Hi. I bought this game a while ago and I am just now trying to play to make sure it works. I have read other posts here about the Black Screen and crashes, but they aren't quite what is happening for me. I get past the first couple of screens, until you see The Bard's Tale screen for the first time and then I get the Black Screen. Waiting doesn't do anything. However, I find that if I press CTRL+ALT+DEL a few times and click on an invisible something (my icon turns into a hand) in the middle of the screen, I eventually can pull up task manager. As soon as I do that, I can see The Bard's Tale icon at the bottom of the screen (task bar), as if the game is minimized. When I click on it, the game starts playing again. It seems to run fine after that.

I am happy that I can at least play the game, but I would like to find a solution incase what I am doing doesn't always work.

Thanks for any suggestions!

[nofencesphoto]

Many (including myself) have had this problem, but there is a mod out that forces the game to run in windowed mode (even though it looks like you are playing in full screen mode). You can find the mod here:

https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/87-the-bards-tale-2005-windowed-mode/

This worked for me, just unzip the file into your Bard's Tale install folder and run the game as usual. Let me know if this fixes it!

[ZombieKidzRule!]

Thanks, that solution worked perfectly! I had seen reference to this solution earlier, but I wasn't sure it applied since I wasn't experiencing any game crash.

Thanks again!

[nofencesphoto]

Glad it helped, I love this game :).

[ZombieKidzRule!]

I like it from the small test I did to make sure it was working and so I at least have a basic understanding of the game mechanics and controls. I like the humor. A lot of the old games have quite a bit of humor either in the game or in the game manuals. This one is the most I have seen in-game though.

I have played the same few games for so long that I need to finally start investing time in all the others I have. My problem is that I tend to binge play on a few games and look for games just like them. But I am giving each one in my Steam list a try to see which ones I want to focus on next while I mod some of the other games.

Thanks again!

[Selective Oblivion]

There are a variety of free utilities and mods that do borderless window.

I picked this up either cheap or in a bundle some months ago and like it.
Worth the $4 to me, but mainly due to how much I use it and dev support.
It isn't perfect, but it is pretty hassle free, once you run it outside of the Steam Client (hint).

http://store.steampowered.com/app/388080/Borderless_Gaming/

I have not tested it with the game yet... BT is on my backlog.

Hope this helps.