black screen at hero selection

[Altair_Cactus]

Hey guys. I've been getting this glitch for a month or two now. And its really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up my game. Right now I've got 4 abandons, and at only 1 time did my internet stop working for 5mins and no one paused.

Here's how it happens. I search for a match, Accept, boom, black screen. I try close the game, reopen and reconnect but i never make it in time before the timers give me abandon. When I was in AP I would pick a random hero by clicking any area in the black screen and clicking the select hero area.

I've tried disabling global lighting, I don't know what else to do. It happens randomly and its just hell for me now.

Please help.

[Altair_Cactus]

I'm running a core i5, 4gb ram, nvidia gt 430.

I know the graphics card is old, and not the best specs, but i used to play the game on lowest settings on my slower laptop without any issues. The game runs smoothly on highest settings. Its just this glitch which started about a month or two ago that's just hell for me now.

[Water Ｖａｐｏｒ Merchant]

Nvidia 430 Jesus. No wonder. Dotas performance issues on older hardware pile up over time because Valve gradually ups the system requirements to keep up with modern hardware. Your black screen issue is unlikely to ever be fixed. Your best bet is to upgrade to a new GPU, preferably 960 series and above.

EDIT: DotA also has an 8GB RAM min requirement. You're lucky you're able to run the game at all on 4.

[Altair_Cactus]

And btw thanks for the comment, wasn't expecting one so soon. Who would in their right minds play LoL after tasting the awesomeness of Dota <3 xD

[Altair_Cactus]

Originally posted by Water Ｖａｐｏｒ Merchant:

Nvidia 430 Jesus. No wonder. Dotas performance issues on older hardware pile up over time because Valve gradually ups the system requirements to keep up with modern hardware. Your black screen issue is unlikely to ever be fixed. Your best bet is to upgrade to a new GPU, preferably 960 series and above.

Or decrease the graphics settings... It still works on my old laptop -_- just looks a lot better on my desktop which has better specs.

[Altair_Cactus]

Originally posted by Water Ｖａｐｏｒ Merchant:

Nvidia 430 Jesus. No wonder. Dotas performance issues on older hardware pile up over time because Valve gradually ups the system requirements to keep up with modern hardware. Your black screen issue is unlikely to ever be fixed. Your best bet is to upgrade to a new GPU, preferably 960 series and above.

EDIT: DotA also has an 8GB RAM min requirement. You're lucky you're able to run the game at all on 4.

are you sure you're not looking at the recommended ram requirements?

https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/dota-2/11352 says its 4gb min

[The Artist]

Bro , i had the same issue.Probably bc we both have low spec pc's. I also could hear the sounds(10 seconds remaining, the lose gold effect, etc..) but still black screen. Try to not do anything when this happens , dont click buttons with mouse dont move cursor !! it might take a lot of time 1 minute + sometimes but it unstucks ! ! ! Try it and tell me

[Altair_Cactus]

Originally posted by Σπύρος Πουτσίδης:

Bro , i had the same issue.Probably bc we both have low spec pc's. I also could hear the sounds(10 seconds remaining, the lose gold effect, etc..) but still black screen. Try to not do anything when this happens , dont click buttons with mouse dont move cursor !! it might take a lot of time 1 minute + sometimes but it unstucks ! ! ! Try it and tell me

i think that happened once as well, I just saw the blank screen and just wen't to get food, by the time i got back it was back up and i had lost a lot of gold, but still better than an abandon.

Will try just waiting for it next time, but God my patience is ranked one of the worst in this world. Thanks a lot.

Will post another comment about it when next it happens. Thanks guys.

[The Artist]

Well i suppose dota gets heavier as a programm with all these add-ons that's why it freezes sometimes , i used to always close dota and reconect but try not doin anything , probably it will fixed. If not another solution might be to defragment your hard disk to get cleaner and faster. hope it ll help u !

[Ξ爪ACH]

This always happens to me aswell, after one of the updates came out i still get it sometiems

[The Artist]

Remember no clicks , not moving around the mouse like crazy just let it be, otherwise it ll continue to freeze according to my experiments :p

[Altair_Cactus]

Hey guys.

Thanks so much. I tried this many times and confirmed it to be the answer. "DO NOTHING". Worst case, you'll be forced to pick last or second last, lose a few gold,or be forced to pick quickly. I've also noticed after the black screen clears up, you might not see the heroes your friends and enemies picks on the top, but only on the mini-map indicating who goes on which lane.

Absolutely do not try to close the game and restart and reconnect, it takes too long and will land you in LP like it did for me many many times. Be patient and in a minute max, the black screen will clear up.

Thanks a lot guys. Have fun playing. <3

[The Artist]

glad that it worked Cactus : D

[2000 ping KY5 Rob Bradley]

right click the game, properties, set launch option "-safe" then restart the game. i know youre kind of poor, but at least get a used gtx 650 for playing dota. its realy cheap

[Neek]

Same issue here, but fixed by using Dx 9 and do warmups before match (playing bot). I'm using GTX 410m. Took me 2 minutes to load the selection screen without first doing bots. Heck, Sometimes I even close explorer. exe to play.

[Devour_Food]

I have the same problem, I should've read this thread, now I'm banned for more than 2 hours