[+ Rennie Ash +]

Hi, I'm playing BP WiH but I'm noticing the entire screen goes black except for the HUD when looking at enemy capital ships. This didn't happen in AoA... Edit: It even happens with friendly cap ships and torpedoes... :/

Also the sound seems very overblown with explosions clipping badly and shockwaves sounding like a distorted overdriven speaker...

[General Battuta]

Please post your fs2_open.log file.  Instructions on how to do this can be found in this post.

Sounds like you're probably having trouble with the special BP builds - although I'd be surprised if you didn't play AoA on those too. Did you run that campaign recently?

[+ Rennie Ash +]

Yes I played it one/two days before I started WiH ;p

It "crashed" on the debug build when I clicked commit so I'm not sure if the issue will show up or not...

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[General Battuta]

Presumably you were using the same build on both, then.

[+ Rennie Ash +]

It does it on build SSE2 (Are there other ones?), 3.6.17 and 3.7.1. Windows 7 64 bit FS2 installed in C/Games.

[General Battuta]

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DEBUG SPEW: No debug_filter.cfg found, so only general, error, and warning
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FreeSpace 2 Open version: 3.7.1
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TBM  =>  Starting parse of 'mv_core-lcl.tbm' ...
Setting language to English
TBM  =>  Starting parse of 'mv_core-lcl.tbm' ...
Game Settings Table: Using Standard Loops For SEXP Arguments
Game Settings Table: Using standard event chaining behavior
Game Settings Table: External shaders are DISABLED
Initializing OpenAL...
  OpenAL Vendor     : Creative Labs Inc.
  OpenAL Renderer   : Software
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  Found extension "ALC_EXT_EFX".

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  EFX version: 1.0
  Max auxiliary sends: 1
  Playback device: Generic Software on Speakers (VIA High Definition Audio)
  Capture device: Stereo Mix (VIA High Definition
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Failed to init speech
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  Initializing WGL...
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  OpenGL Vendor    : NVIDIA Corporation
  OpenGL Renderer  : GeForce GTX 660/PCIe/SSE2
  OpenGL Version   : 4.3.0

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  Using extension "GL_ARB_multitexture".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_texture_env_add".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_texture_compression".
  Using extension "GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc".
  Using extension "GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_texture_env_combine".
  Using extension "GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array".
  Using extension "GL_EXT_draw_range_elements".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object".
  Using extension "GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap".
  Using extension "GL_EXT_framebuffer_object".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_texture_rectangle".
  Using extension "GL_EXT_bgra".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_texture_cube_map".
  Using extension "GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_point_sprite".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_shading_language_100".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_shader_objects".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_vertex_shader".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_fragment_shader".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_shader_texture_lod".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_texture_float".
  Using extension "GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex".
  Using extension "GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit".
  Using extension "GL_EXT_geometry_shader4".
  Using extension "GL_EXT_texture_array".
  Found special extension function "wglSwapIntervalEXT".

Compiling new shader:
   Loading built-in default shader for: soft-v.sdr
   Loading built-in default shader for: soft-f.sdr
Shader features:
   Depth-blended Particles
Compiling new shader:
   Loading built-in default shader for: soft-v.sdr
   Loading built-in default shader for: soft-f.sdr
Shader features:
   Distorted Particles
Compiling deferred light shader...
   Loading built-in default shader for: deferred-v.sdr
   Loading built-in default shader for: deferred-f.sdr

  Max texture units: 4 (32)
  Max elements vertices: 1048576
  Max elements indices: 1048576
  Max texture size: 16384x16384
  Max render buffer size: 16384x16384
  Can use compressed textures: YES
  Texture compression available: YES
  Post-processing enabled: NO
  Using trilinear texture filter.
  OpenGL Shader Version: 4.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
... OpenGL init is complete!
Size of bitmap info = 742 KB
Size of bitmap extra info = 48 bytes
ANI cursorweb with size 24x24 (25.0% wasted)
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Frame  0 too long!!: frametime = 1.647 (1.647)
ANI iconU-Installation.ani with size 107x130 (49.2% wasted)
ANI iconT-vette.ani with size 80x31 (3.1% wasted)
ASSERTION: "Red_alert_wingman_status.size() <= MAX_SHIPS" at csg.cpp:1527
 Invalid number of Red_alert_wingman_status entries: 36288

Int3(): From d:\fso\scp bp\code\globalincs\windebug.cpp at line 1040

Since you don't have the compability package installed, you must play BP on one of the BP builds provided with your installation, or a BP build from this thread: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=83318.0

Or install the compatibility package in the BP forum and play it with a recent nightly build.

Also kinda looks like your pilot file is corrupt. Grab one of the BP builds in the thread I linked above, create a brand new pilot, and try BP2 again.

[+ Rennie Ash +]

I am using the builds from that 7z file. I was trying to avoid having to reconfigure my controls from the default every time I play a new campaign, so the pilot is the same one from AoA...

[niffiwan]

If you really want to keep that pilot, and you're not afraid of using a hex editor, and you back up the file before starting, you can try to recover the pilot using the link in my .sig. (Red Alert Bug = Hex Edit)

[Darius]

Is post-processing on? The black screen sounds like an issue I had a few months ago with the BP builds which I never found the cause of, but went away when post-processing was on.