black screen?

guthix · Post by **guthix** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 6:54 pm

hi

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i just get a black screen? i am not opening the game from a shortcut. i am doing everything right but it isnt working. i am using windows 1998. does my computer need to be in a certain resolution? it has happened on games before. please help

Durin Silberbart · Post by **Durin Silberbart** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 7:35 pm

You use the latest directX version?. Your graphic drivers are correct installed?

guthix · Post by **guthix** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 8:25 pm

Durin Silberbart wrote:You use the latest directX version?. Your graphic drivers are correct installed?

i have directX 9.0 but im not sure about that graphic stuff... but it is default so it should work right?

guthix · Post by **guthix** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 8:30 pm

i am re-downloadin direct X 9.0 just incase. anyway, when i start up the game i see a hand pointing a finger (the mouse) and then a flash and the whole moniter goes black. i press alt+f4 to close the screen and then it comes up with *illarion has performed an illegal operation and will close* or something like that?

Adano Eles · Post by **Adano Eles** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 8:34 pm

To shut down Illarion press "ESC". This should work regardless of your Problem. Illarion does come up with "illegal operation" errors when closing down from time to time. It's a known issue, there won't be done anything about this in the current client.

Did you properly unzip the archive? I know this is a stupid question, but people make stupid mistakes sometimes.

guthix · Post by **guthix** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 8:40 pm

it says it unzips automatically or is not the normal .zip format or something like that. i have unzipped everything on my computer (used winzip wizard to searcg computer and none were found
by the way when i log in do i put my character name or account name?

Moirear Sian · Post by **Moirear Sian** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 9:00 pm

Your character's name.

guthix · Post by **guthix** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 9:08 pm

Guthik Ehquil

Moirear Sian · Post by **Moirear Sian** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 9:18 pm

My bad. I meant: Enter your character's name to log in, and use the password of your account (in reference to your question above) :

guthix wrote:by the way when i log in do i put my character name or account name?

Is the main issue persisting? What graphics card are you using, and did you check the company's homepage for driver updates?

Dónal Mason · Post by **Dónal Mason** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 9:20 pm

Are you sure you got the windows 9x version, rather than windows XP?

guthix · Post by **guthix** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 9:23 pm

100% sure i am using wot i sed
Card name: Magnum/Xpert 128/Xpert 99 (English)

Moirear Sian · Post by **Moirear Sian** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 9:32 pm

Is that an ATI graphics card? Here's a page to ATI's customer support:

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/def ... olderID=27

Try checking out if you have the latest drivers of your graphics card, if not, then try installing the latest one.

guthix · Post by **guthix** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:09 pm

it seems to work fine while playing games like "runescape" and "age of empires". they seem to look like they would use better graphics than that needed to play illarion (not trying to say the graphics are bad or anything)
i think i found the problem! i think the resolution is changed when the game is booted up! because my cheap moniter does not support any resolution apart from 848x480 (weird) the screen just goes very very dark! (found this out because i set brightness to full and then played game! i could just see outlines
am i right? hello is anyone there? i am buying a new moniter tomorow so i will be on then! i have an old moniter which is good enough but whenver i plug it into this computer it just flickers and turns on and off! it worked on my other computer which is now also broken (i have bad luck lol)____________________________________________________________
*** G U T H I X *** RPG Master

guthix · Post by **guthix** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:31 pm

woops! please delete this post

guthix · Post by **guthix** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:44 pm

woops! please delete this post

Moirear Sian · Post by **Moirear Sian** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 11:07 pm

Could you please not post multiple times? There is that nifty "edit" function.

Regardless of the 3D graphics or 2D graphics, the driver does sometimes have its hands in Illarion not running properly. But if this issue is merely related to your monitor, nevermind.

848x480? That is the weirdest resolution I've ever heard of!

I honestly don't know if you're right, this whole thing with the monitor sounds pretty odd to me. I guess I can't say there's anything wrong with trying out a different monitor, it might actually work. In fact, Illarion does indeed run with a 1024x768 resolution, so a proper monitor might fix the issue.

Cheers,
Eric

guthix · Post by **guthix** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 9:48 am

sorry about the multiple posting

and my stupid moniter only works with that weird resolution? is a strange resolution eh. i will get my new moniter today so

Cherish · Post by **Cherish** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 5:39 am

I have this same problem also. I enter the username/pass and it goes into a black screen with a mouse hand.
Everything is updated. I even updated the drivers for my graphic controllers on my mother board.

I rolled back drivers,then updated them, I followed the instructions in other topics,but nothing is working.

Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: VIA Technologies, Inc.
System Model: VT8365
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.4GHz
Memory: 376MB RAM
Page File: 273MB used, 632MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode

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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce4 MX 420
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0172&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A3
Display Memory: 64.0 MB
Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (85Hz)
Monitor: Envision EFT7x0 Series
Monitor Max Res: 1280,1024
Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.7189 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 4/1/2005 16:16:00, 3980288 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: No
WHQL Date Stamp: None
VDD: n/a
Mini VDD: nv4_mini.sys
Mini VDD Date: 4/1/2005 16:16:00, 3454656 bytes
Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4232-11CF-A57F-0A2002C2CB35}
Vendor ID: 0x10DE
Device ID: 0x0172
SubSys ID: 0x00000000
Revision ID: 0x00A3
Revision ID: 0x00A3
Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_B ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D
Deinterlace Caps: {212DC723-3235-44A4-BD29-E1652BBCC71C}: Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,1) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_MedianFiltering
{335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
{212DC723-3235-44A4-BD29-E1652BBCC71C}: Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,1) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_MedianFiltering
{335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
{212DC723-3235-44A4-BD29-E1652BBCC71C}: Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,1) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_MedianFiltering
{335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
{212DC723-3235-44A4-BD29-E1652BBCC71C}: Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,1) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_MedianFiltering
{335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
Registry: OK
DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Enabled
DDraw Test Result: All tests were successful.
D3D7 Test Result: All tests were successful.
D3D8 Test Result: All tests were successful.
D3D9 Test Result: All tests were successful.
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One thing I have to add is, I found out that the newest drivers for this card are nogood for my computer. After installing them,they keep crashing the system. Nvidia claims there is not a problem,but my system tells me otherwise. SoI'm using a version that is only 1 step down from this newest version.

Misjbar · Post by **Misjbar** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:22 am

To your last remark, I do the same. For some reason, with their latest driver installed, Windows refuses to recognise my harddisk. So I took a driver that was one step lower too. n_n

Moirear Sian · Post by **Moirear Sian** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 1:56 pm

@Cherish: I just checked the server statistics given on the frontpage and compared them to the time you posted here. It appears to me that you tried logging in when the gameserver was down. My guess is that it should work fine for you. The server is up again now. The easiest way to tell it is down is to look at the statistics. If there is a constant number of players online over the course of many hours away, those stats are frozen and the server is most definitely down.