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It doesn't. I've still got a big black screen when I get to the login screen. Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve it? I'm guessing that this isn't a graphics card problem, and may have something to do with me disabling the wrong thing. If so, how would I be able to reactivate this thing (Which I am not sure what the name is) without having to login, or bypass the login screen?
No help? :(
*grumble*At least yours was answered instead of ignored.
That's cause mine presents a challenge =p
S: Disabling the wrong thing? What did you do to disable things? (What were you trying to disable?) Are you sure you're seating the cards properly? That used to be a problem with AGP cards. Can you boot into safe mode? Can you see the POST checks? Get into BIOS?
G: Do you have UAC on? Tried running it as administrator? Steam offline?
We were trying to disable the old graphics drivers, in both the old card and the motherboard. We unistalled something from the "nvidia Desktop Manager", which I suspect was not the nvidia driver. And disabled what we think was the motherbaord graphics driver. We went into Add/Remove programs and Device Manager.Quote:
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Yes.Quote:
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Nope.Quote:
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We don't even know what they are.Quote:
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Yes, we are messing with that now. Any advice on how to get graphics drivers up and running from there?Quote:
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I really appreciate your time and help on this.You don't know what a big favour you are doing!
(Bored at work and happy to help :) )
Just to confirm, you can see Windows (XP or Vista?) starting normally (wavy flag and all) until you get to the login screen? Can you describe the trippy mess?
You see a black screen at login with the motherboard graphics: can you get into the BIOS using your motherboard integrated graphics? You won't be able to touch the drivers from BIOS, I'm just trying to narrow down the possibilities.
On the solutions front, do you have any kind of windows disc or a boot disc? Unrelatedly, do you have access to a graphics card that doesn't use the PCIe port (may or may not help, depending on previous answers)?
True. :laugh4:Quote:
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Actually I got in touch with my regular Technician. Apparantly the problem was that the newest video card drivers by Nvidia were actualy worse than the older ones (oh the irony).Quote:
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To all you who have been having my problem with a Nvidia card, on vista 64, dont get the 182 version, download this one instead. It should fix it.:yes:
I've got a weird problem. Playing as the Dutch, three times when I've tried to make trade aggrements with Hannover or Westphalia I've got the Blue Screen of Death and the following message:
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I've got enough disk space. Is that second listing in the tech information a driver?
It's your video card. Try what the post above yours suggests.
never had any problems playing any games except this one. my monitor will just ramdomly shut off and not come back on even though my pc is still running. this has never happened before its so weird.
Cool :2thumbsup: (Not that you're bored I mean)Quote:
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Yes. Also, we attempted to login once we got to the "black screen" after the flag, and we found that we could login to my account. We also tried to install the driver for my new card, but it's nigh-impossible when you have no idea where your cursor is. I'm thinking that this means that Windows doesn't think there is a problem, and is chugging away, whilst not realising that a driver is missing, and that it isn't being displayed on the screen.Quote:
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It's quite weird. It seems to seperate into "columns", and of various garish colours (Pink/Green/White/Octarine) However, it doesn't stop me from physically logging in. It also appears to be "on top" of what was otherwise normally happening, if that makes sense.Quote:
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Yes.Quote:
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Crap.Quote:
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Yes, we're thinking about transferring most of the files onto a new hardrive, and reinstalling windows onto that new backup hardrive.Quote:
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I'm not sure, but I doubt it.Quote:
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Again, thanks for the help. I'm going into Manchester today (Mum's birthday), followed by Shakespeare (w00t!) so I won't be able to work on it for most of today.
Again, thanks for being so helpful.:bow:
Hi ive got a couple of graphical problems with empire and im not sure if its my hardware not being up to scratch or a bug that's the problem so I thought I would ask for some advice.
1st like in the demo I cant set anything higher than medium other than unit size and some of the check boxes are disabled too. Now I know my computer cant run things maxed out but I had the Volumetric Effects (fog) working fine in the demo and I cant use them now. Also the water on land maps dose not show its just a black mass which is another thing that worked in the demo but not now.
So is this a hardware problem that I had or is it something I can fix with out an upgrade?
My system is:
Intel Core 2 6600@ 2.40GHz
2GB Memory
GeForce 8600 GTS, Version 182.06
Win Vista 32 bit
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Thanks in advance
Well, your processor and RAM are at minimum spec.
Not sure yet...
No his RAM, CPU and GPU should be fine. I have the same except XP and a 9800 GTX and can run almost ever thing on utlra.
Possible solution: defrag your hard drive and clean your registry.
Humm ill try that thinks.
But you have a better graphics card than i do so that could be my problem.
Hi,
I downloaded from steam and when i try to play i get a blank screen.
i am running vista on a new Dell insperion core 2 quad processor (which i bought just to play ETW)
please help me....
thank you
I have almost the exact same computer as you, I just have double your RAM.Quote:
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The game will cross out anything it doesnt think you can run at a playable FPS.
Not really a problem but it is a question which I thought would belong here. What are all the sound settings supposed to be or do? I switched from Windows default to Stero speakers and every time someone would take the music would fade out so I decided to just switch back.
Well, I think it's pretty much certain now that I'm going to have to transfer to a new harddrive and install windows anew on the backup. Any last ideas before I attempt that today?
A quick question... Performance on the campaign map is sort of... sluggish. I get 50+ FPS (according to Fraps), but still, there are significant pauses sometimes, and, well, it doesn't feel fluid. My PC is well above recommended, so that's not a problem, I was just wondering if it's my system, or is it a general problem.
well I have about 50 fps too and it seems indeed a bit sluggish, but no big pauses, more a lack of "perfect fluidity"
@beatoangelico and Mister V
This is probably a bug and is reported by lots of people in the bug thread.
I have all the settings low, and I'm having a problem with frame rate when scrolling on the campaign map. What gives?
AMD Dual Core 2.8 GHz
4GB DDR
NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT
Win XP
Does this go here? Anyway, game keeps crashing during the AI move. Seems to be a problem with a naval unit.
APPCRASH
Application Name: Empire.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 49a5aaec
Fault Module Name: Empire.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 49a5aaec
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 007861b3
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
***Came back to update. It seems to crash when Mexico sends out a fleet in the Atlantic. It crashes then.
Hi i am just writing to see whether you think i will have any problems. My computer specs. are:
Windows XP Home
AMD Athlon 2600+
1.512 GB RAM
128 MB Dedicated INVIDIA
any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Banick
7600? That could definately be it...Quote:
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But yes, the lag when you select units does seem to be commonplace.
Got no problems whatsoever. Except with the movies from Gentlemen duelling. Any ideas?
Since I can't edit my last post, an addendum: the movies flicker.
Ah ok thanks... So dose having double the ram help at all? And is there a way to convince the game I know best?Quote:
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