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craze Oct 8, 2015 @ 6:29pm
black screen not fixed by fullscreen=0
Tried firing up BE for the first time since my windows 10 upgrade. Game is back to the old black screen trick. My graphicsettings.ini file has fullscreen = 0, so I don't know what to do. The game is definitely running in the background, if I alt tab in such a way that the task bar appears I can see the game working.

Any suggestions?
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craze Oct 8, 2015 @ 6:40pm 
won't even load to blackscreen now (tinkered with settings via geforce experience, even after resetting it gave up trying to start). so lets see how a reinstall works. otherwise i guess i get to see if gmg will refund me my rising tide purchase :/
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MKZS Dec 21, 2015 @ 3:58pm 
You solved this issue?
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craze Dec 23, 2015 @ 1:07pm 
Originally posted by zsmester:
You solved this issue?

Sorry for the late reply. For whatever reason, my civ5 folder got marked as read only, so I was not able to get fullscreen=0 to stick.

Initially I could get it to work by unplugging my good monitor and the older one was a supported resolution, and even from within the game I couldn't get the setting to change.

Once I was able to set the whole folder (the location with the ini file) to be editable, I changed the setting and the game loaded up in fullscreen-windowed mode and it worked fine.

This read only thing has come up again at least one other time since my win10 upgrade, so I don't know what's going on but at least now I know that if I can't make settings changes stick that's probably why.
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SamBC Dec 23, 2015 @ 2:02pm 
Win10 upgrade for some users sets all or part of the user directory to no longer be 'owned' by the user (it may be linked to switching to a microsoft.com account when you previously had a local account). You need to give your user 'full control' permissions on the user folder and all its contents.
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craze Dec 23, 2015 @ 7:26pm 
Originally posted by SamBC:
Win10 upgrade for some users sets all or part of the user directory to no longer be 'owned' by the user (it may be linked to switching to a microsoft.com account when you previously had a local account). You need to give your user 'full control' permissions on the user folder and all its contents.


Bless you.
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