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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Darkhill on March 11, 2004, 09:29:38 am

Title: Blank screen at startup
Post by: Darkhill on March 11, 2004, 09:29:38 am

This is something that doesn't happen to everybody working on the project.  But when the game is started it only shows a blank screen until escape is pressed.  It didn't do this for me before but then I installed another copy to test things out and I got the blank screen.  One thought was maybe it was trying to play the intro movie.  But that wouldn't explain why it didn't do it to everybody.  Is there anybody else out there having this problem?  And what did you do to fix it?

Title: Blank screen at startup
Post by: karajorma on March 11, 2004, 09:34:37 am

A couple of the recent builds did that for a while and then the problem got fixed. You probably are basing you work on one of the builds that did rather than introducing the bug yourself right?

Title: Blank screen at startup
Post by: ChronoReverse on March 11, 2004, 09:47:20 am

AFAIK some of the test builds had the movie code disabled.  In the builds where the code is enabled, it seems to work fine.

Title: Blank screen at startup
Post by: KARMA on March 11, 2004, 10:29:28 am

it may be also a graphic card issue, it happens to me if I try to run the game with a voodoo2, which isn't supported.

Title: Blank screen at startup
Post by: Darkhill on March 11, 2004, 08:40:02 pm

I'm using the code for 3.5.5 right from the CVS.  I've not done anything with the movie code from whats in this version.

I'm using a GeForce 4 MX 440, I'll have to ask around and see what they got.  Any have a list of "iffy" graphics cards?

Title: Blank screen at startup
Post by: redmenace on March 11, 2004, 08:59:16 pm

for one, any code in CVS at any given time could have any number of bugs in it.

Title: Blank screen at startup
Post by: karajorma on March 12, 2004, 04:44:17 am

Quote

Originally posted by darkchrono4
I'm using the code for 3.5.5 right from the CVS.  I've not done anything with the movie code from whats in this version.

3.5.5 did work with movies though. The movie problem was something I noticed in a couple of Bobbaou's builds so you may have the same problem.

Do you have the media.vp installed? If not download it and check if you now get the FS2_Open splash screen instead of a black screen. If you do then you've almost definately got the same problem as bob's builds had.

If your getting the problem and you have the media.vp then I don't know what the problem is.

Title: Blank screen at startup
Post by: Bobboau on March 12, 2004, 08:44:33 am

for some reason the newer movie code won't compile for me, so I just ifdefed it out, make sure you _do not_  have the compile flag no_dshow_code or something to that effect in any of your dsws or dsps.

Title: Blank screen at startup
Post by: Darkhill on March 12, 2004, 09:16:26 am

If you mean a preprocessor definition, then no I don't have it set.  I don't have the media.vp but I'm downloading it now.  What I don't get is not everybody gets the blank screen.

Title: Blank screen at startup
Post by: karajorma on March 12, 2004, 01:56:50 pm

As I said if you have the media.vp you get the splash screen. It then won't go away until you click escape. I remember not only getting the bug but hearing other complain about it too.

Title: Blank screen at startup
Post by: Darkhill on March 12, 2004, 06:13:34 pm

Having a PreLoad.pcx in /interface seems to have solved the problem.