Desert Pirate

Reply to Startup = black screen, sound and cursor in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Yes yes yes! Moosetek, that was exactly the issue. Game works fine now. Thank you so much for your help; your my new hero!

Reply to Startup = black screen, sound and cursor in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Yes Moosetek, you are absolutely correct about what I did. My computer came with an intigrated video driver, and I added the other card myself to get better performance; and now I see I did indeed forget to disable the integrated video. (is it really forgeting if you didn't know you were suppose to do it, hah). Unfortunately I am still stuck at work for another 2 hours but as soon as I get home I'll be implimenting your ideas and will report how it turns out. Everyone else -

Reply to Startup = black screen, sound and cursor in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Well... wasn't that fun... I tried increasing my virtual memory from 1.2gig to 2gig... and now when I run the game, same black screen, same movable cursor... and now NO sound at all.... ain't that a peach.

Startup = black screen, sound and cursor in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

ok... maybe someone can help me out here... I have been through most of the posts and can't find anything quite the same. I installed the game just fine. When I go to play it, the screen goes full black, except for the cursor, which I can still move around. And I can here all the audio just fine... It's just that all I get is a black screen. I have updated to the latest version of GC2 and updated all the drivers I could update.... still no luck. Been working on it 3 hours now... I wish this wa