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Installed COD2 and T2D gives me a black screen?

by Philip Mansfield · in Torque Game Builder · 01/01/2006 (9:52 am) · 8 replies

I've just installed Call of Duty 2, patched it and played it for awhile. Quit the game, did some surfing, caught up with some newsgroups and then decided to do some more coding.

Fired up my T2D game and I just had a black screen. No errors in the console.log file, and I hacked my code around, put in echos, and everything seemed alright but it just wouldn't display anything (I don't have any audio in the game yet, so I don't know if music would have started playing).

A quick reboot and everything is back to normal and my T2D game works just fine. I didn't install DX as part of the COD2 install as I have v9.0c already. This is with T2D 1.1 Alpha 2.

I'll test it again later and see if playing COD2 breaks my game again. Anyone else come across this?
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Torque Owner Philip Mansfield
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#1
01/01/2006 (3:11 pm)
Yup, just confirmed it. Played CoD2 again for a while and afterwards my T2D game just gives a blank screen. Also tried the Space Shooter demo in Alpha 2, and it also gives a black screen and locked my PC up after a few seconds and a couple of mouse clicks.

It might not be anything to do with T2D, which is why I haven't posted in the Bugs forum. It could just be that CoD2 doesn't tidy itself up very nicely.

Employee Melv May
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01/02/2006 (5:03 am)
I presume you're running T2D using the DX layer then? I wonder if it happens if you first setup T2D to running under OpenGL, play COD2 and then try T2D again?

I will say that between coding T2D, I've been playing COD2 over xmas without an issue but I've been using OpenGL. I just tried it and I didn't get a problem but perhaps I need to play COD2 for a while first? I'll leave T2D in DX mode and see if I come across the same problem.

- Melv.

Torque Owner Philip Mansfield
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01/02/2006 (7:13 am)
Nope, T2D is set to use OpenGL, as is the Shooter demo. I'll try setting it to DX first, and then play CoD 2 again and see what happens.

It might even just be some odd thing that's happening on my PC and will be difficult to duplicate.

Employee Melv May
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01/02/2006 (7:52 am)
Yes, I suspect so especially as COD2 is using DirectX and T2D is using OpenGL. Is this a beta-driver perhaps?

- Melv.

Torque Owner Philip Mansfield
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#5
01/02/2006 (10:18 am)
If you mean my video drivers, then no, it's official nVidia v81.85. Not the latest release, but pretty stable none-the-less.

Employee Melv May
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01/02/2006 (10:27 am)
It'd be interesting to see if the TGE v1.3 has the same problem.

- Melv.

Torque Owner Philip Mansfield
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#7
01/02/2006 (1:29 pm)
Right... Done some testing and here are the results:

Before CoD2-
Starting in OGL is fine.
Starting in D3D is fine.
Switching between OGL and D3D in T2D works fine.

After playing CoD2-
Starting in OGL gives a black screen.
Starting in D3D is fine.
Switching from D3D to OGL instantly gives me a black screen as soon as I click Apply.

So there's definately something odd going on once I've quit from CoD2. My console.log file doesn't show anything out of the ordinary that I can see, but I can post it if it helps.

Torque Owner Philip Mansfield
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#8
01/02/2006 (2:38 pm)
A quick test of the 1.4 TGE demo caused a hardlock. Rebooted, and then TGE ran just fine.