The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

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Can't see Pictures/Premonitions?
So I just found the first picture, and whenever I play it, I just get black screen with sound. Can't see anything. I'm supposed to see something right? Like the totems in Until Dawn?
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COWABUNGA Aug 29, 2019 @ 7:02pm 
Originally posted by Fayaine:
Originally posted by ok cool:
I can't see them, but if my friend checks them he can see them just fine. It sucks.

Are you running Windows 7 ? and your friend possibly Windows 10 ?
Yes and yes.
Fayaine Aug 29, 2019 @ 7:06pm 
Originally posted by ok cool:
Originally posted by Fayaine:

Are you running Windows 7 ? and your friend possibly Windows 10 ?
Yes and yes.

Looks to me more and more like a Windows 7 Problem missing the Codec for it to play. Did the intro of the Curator play for you ? It's a Music Video with the Opening Credits
ArielNugie Aug 29, 2019 @ 7:09pm 
I have windows 7 64 bit, and I'll let u know if Im having the same problem or not.. im still downloading 2 gb left
Franken Castle Aug 29, 2019 @ 7:11pm 
Originally posted by Fayaine:
Originally posted by ok cool:
Yes and yes.

Looks to me more and more like a Windows 7 Problem missing the Codec for it to play. Did the intro of the Curator play for you ? It's a Music Video with the Opening Credits


No it did not, It hung on a black screen and I had to alt tab out and back in to get the game to progress . I believe backhart had the same issue, so it very well could be windows 7
Fayaine Aug 29, 2019 @ 7:14pm 
Originally posted by Franken Castle:
Originally posted by Fayaine:

Looks to me more and more like a Windows 7 Problem missing the Codec for it to play. Did the intro of the Curator play for you ? It's a Music Video with the Opening Credits


No it did not, It hung on a black screen and I had to alt tab out and back in to get the game to progress . I believe backhart had the same issue, so it very well could be windows 7

Yep theres a Video supposed to play where the Curator walks in. It plays a music song aswell as showing some credits. That explains your black screen as it doesn't play it.

Seems to be a Win 7 issue confirmed then. Question is how to fix it if even possible. The Video files are in .mp4 Format but my usual Video Player can't play them they seem to be encrypted so it looks like Windows 7 is missing the decryption for those Videos.
Last edited by Fayaine; Aug 29, 2019 @ 7:15pm
Franken Castle Aug 29, 2019 @ 7:16pm 
Originally posted by Fayaine:
Originally posted by Franken Castle:


No it did not, It hung on a black screen and I had to alt tab out and back in to get the game to progress . I believe backhart had the same issue, so it very well could be windows 7

Yep theres a Video supposed to play where the Curator walks in. It plays a music song aswell as showing some credits. Seems to be a Win 7 issue confirmed then. Question is how to fix it if even possible. The Video files are in .mp4 Format but my usual Video Player can't play them they seem to be encrypted so it looks like Windows 7 is missing the decryption for those Videos


Yes unfortunately it looks like it shall be a matter of waiting patiently for the devs to drop a hot fix
Fayaine Aug 29, 2019 @ 7:18pm 
Originally posted by Franken Castle:
Originally posted by Fayaine:

Yep theres a Video supposed to play where the Curator walks in. It plays a music song aswell as showing some credits. Seems to be a Win 7 issue confirmed then. Question is how to fix it if even possible. The Video files are in .mp4 Format but my usual Video Player can't play them they seem to be encrypted so it looks like Windows 7 is missing the decryption for those Videos


Yes unfortunately it looks like it shall be a matter of waiting patiently for the devs to drop a hot fix

Or finding out whatever Codec or Decryption it is Win 7 is missing so you can possibly install it.
COWABUNGA Aug 29, 2019 @ 7:18pm 
Originally posted by Fayaine:
Originally posted by ok cool:
Yes and yes.

Looks to me more and more like a Windows 7 Problem missing the Codec for it to play. Did the intro of the Curator play for you ? It's a Music Video with the Opening Credits
What the ♥♥♥♥, yeah that didn't play for me either. I guess you got it right.
Fayaine Aug 29, 2019 @ 11:21pm 
Small update the issue is with the Video files. One of the PCGamingWiki members found the issue. Some of the Files have a double Header in them causing Win 7 apparently to fail playing the File while Windows 10 skips the double Line and plays just fine. With other words the video files have to be fixed to play properly.
Franken Castle Aug 29, 2019 @ 11:50pm 
Originally posted by Fayaine:
Small update the issue is with the Video files. One of the PCGamingWiki members found the issue. Some of the Files have a double Header in them causing Win 7 apparently to fail playing the File while Windows 10 skips the double Line and plays just fine. With other words the video files have to be fixed to play properly.

Thank's for the update, I kinda figured that was going to be the case, I have just spent the past couple of hours updating codecs and settings to no avail so I guessed it would just come down to waiting for a patch, hopefully the devs are already aware of the issue and are working on a fix :)
Fayaine Aug 30, 2019 @ 12:05am 
Originally posted by Franken Castle:
Originally posted by Fayaine:
Small update the issue is with the Video files. One of the PCGamingWiki members found the issue. Some of the Files have a double Header in them causing Win 7 apparently to fail playing the File while Windows 10 skips the double Line and plays just fine. With other words the video files have to be fixed to play properly.

Thank's for the update, I kinda figured that was going to be the case, I have just spent the past couple of hours updating codecs and settings to no avail so I guessed it would just come down to waiting for a patch, hopefully the devs are already aware of the issue and are working on a fix :)

You could manually Hex Edit out the double header i guess to make it work too
microdisco Aug 30, 2019 @ 3:59am 
Windows 10 x64 the same ♥♥♥♥ :cta_emo4:
Revenholm Aug 30, 2019 @ 7:28am 
same problem on windows 10 and i allready changed all mp4 files into .bak files to avoid the black screen bug s that fix workes

I think we have to wait for a fix for some bug s
Doc Aug 30, 2019 @ 7:46am 
Same thing happening to my brother (win7). Sadly this basically makes the game unplayable for us.
It works for me on win10.

Gonna hold off before I get to 2 hours and if it doesn't get fixed until sunday I'll refund it, since we planned on playing through it in coop this weekend and if that's not possible I'll just watch a youtube playthrough or something instead.
carlos-cmt Aug 30, 2019 @ 11:59pm 
I've download a free hex editor, navigated into the premonitions folder, open all the videos, and delete the first line, it took 5 min
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