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Title: Crash with black screen when exiting 3.6.12 RC4
Post by: redsniper on July 28, 2010, 12:20:14 am
I already made a bug report on Mantis (http://scp.indiegames.us/mantis/view.php?id=2271), but then found out we aren't supposed to do that anymore... or something. Anyhow...

When I quit FSO, either clicking 'Exit' in the main hall or clicking the X in the corner in windowed mode, my computer gets stuck on a black screen and is totally unresponsive: I can't alt-tab or anything, have to hard reset. This happens regardless of mod, in windowed or full-screen mode. Also happens with both release and debug builds.

Here's my fs2_open.log, pastebin didn't take kindly to it...
http://www.mediafire.com/?ga9wmyw2pi42vxv

Specs:
Biostar TA-790 GX mobo
AMD Phenom II X3 710
Radeon HD 4890
Asus Xonar XD sound card
Win 7 Ultimate
Title: Re: Crash with black screen when exiting 3.6.12 RC4
Post by: chief1983 on July 28, 2010, 11:28:03 am
Update graphics drivers?    That's all that comes to mind...
Title: Re: Crash with black screen when exiting 3.6.12 RC4
Post by: The E on July 28, 2010, 11:38:27 am
I already made a bug report on Mantis (http://scp.indiegames.us/mantis/view.php?id=2271), but then found out we aren't supposed to do that anymore... or something. Anyhow...

The reason this belongs here first instead of Mantis is that Mantis is for definitive code bugs only. Only when we're absolutely sure it's not a setup issue of some kind it's supposed to go on Mantis.
Title: Re: Crash with black screen when exiting 3.6.12 RC4
Post by: redsniper on July 28, 2010, 12:56:21 pm
Updated video drivers, same thing happens.
Title: Re: Crash with black screen when exiting 3.6.12 RC4
Post by: The E on July 28, 2010, 12:58:05 pm
Can you get the root_fs2.vp from the HOTU crack pack (aka, the 1.2 root_fs2), and try with that one? checksum seems to indicate that it's not updated.
Title: Re: Crash with black screen when exiting 3.6.12 RC4
Post by: redsniper on July 28, 2010, 01:23:44 pm
Replaced root.vp, problem persists.
Title: Re: Crash with black screen when exiting 3.6.12 RC4
Post by: chief1983 on July 28, 2010, 01:33:19 pm
Might give the latest nightly a shot.
Title: Re: Crash with black screen when exiting 3.6.12 RC4
Post by: Iss Mneur on July 28, 2010, 06:17:32 pm
Might give the latest nightly a shot.
Trying 3.6.10 would be a good idea as well.
Title: Re: Crash with black screen when exiting 3.6.12 RC4
Post by: redsniper on July 28, 2010, 09:28:23 pm
Arrrgh, 3.6.10 crashed the same way, so I guess my install is frakked.

Here's the log if it helps: http://www.mediafire.com/?t8xobwmkp9nlalf
Title: Re: Crash with black screen when exiting 3.6.12 RC4
Post by: redsniper on July 28, 2010, 10:12:11 pm
Axem tried helping me a bit. I turned off all launcher flags and now RC4 crashes without even getting to the intro movie. The log is strangely short:  http://pastebin.org/426980
Title: Re: Crash with black screen when exiting 3.6.12 RC4
Post by: The E on July 29, 2010, 03:07:33 am
Again, it's pointing towards a driver failure more than anything else.
Title: Re: Crash with black screen when exiting 3.6.12 RC4
Post by: redsniper on July 30, 2010, 12:02:03 am
So, I tried running another game (Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl) and it crashed in much the same way that FSO did. Which leads me to believe this is a general hardware problem and not an FSO problem. I swapped out my video card for an older card. FSO still crashes, but does not lock up the whole computer, it's just an immediate CTD. Here's the log just for kicks: http://pastebin.org/430901

Now Stalker can get to the menu screen, but when I try to load a game (ie get to the actual 3d rendering part) it crashes to a black screen and locks up the computer.

I'm kind of at a loss now. If I had to guess, I'd say this indicates a motherboard problem.

Since this isn't specific to FSO, I'll make a thread in General Discussion. Thanks.
Title: Re: Crash with black screen when exiting 3.6.12 RC4
Post by: Iss Mneur on July 31, 2010, 07:18:31 pm
For the record this issue was seemingly caused by driver corruption, see http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=70631.0