no video

When I launch the game I can hear it playing but my monitor stays blank. Using a laptop with Nvidia Go7950.

[jeff]

Can you send a DxDiag report and a sysinfo report to info <at> hiddenpath .com?





Jeff

[jeff]

Do you not see the game from the very beginning, or do you not see the game after starting a game in the menu?* Do you see any HUD in the game?* Is the screen active or is it fully shut off as if a screen saver had disabled it?





Thanks,





Jeff

[porky133]

As soon as it launches the screen flickers and then goes dark. I can see that the backlights are still on and I can hear music playing. When I move the mouse around I can hear it going over the different buttons.

[porky133]

DXDiag and SysInfo reports emailed as per your request.

Thanks for helping with this.

[porky133]

As requested I downloaded and installed newer drivers. Still have the same problem, launch game, get Defense Grid window frame, screen goes black, flickers a few times, music plays, can hear mouse moving over the in game buttons, no video.

Next?

[jeff]

Thanks for trying that porky133 - can you send a new dxdiag & sysinfo now?





Jeff

[porky133]

Hello! I got your email reply about changing the config.ini file and as soon as I opened the file I saw the problem. The resolution was set to something that my video card doesn't support. I changed the res to my native res and wala, it works. Thanks again for all your support!

[jeff]

I'm so glad to hear that solved the problem.* We'll have to look into why the game chose a resolution that wasn't from the Windows list.* The game*requests to get a list of available resolutions from Windows and then uses one of those when it initializes.* It sounds like that failed in some way and then it defaulted to a resolution you didn't support.





Can you tell us what resolution it was set to - and what resolutions your machine actually does support?





Jeff

[porky133]

The game was set to 1280x720. I didn't recognize that setting so I changed it to 1280x1024 and it worked. I can select that setting (1280x720) but I don't know if my video card actually supports it.

Anyway, now I have it set to my native resolution and it works. A bit slow on the laptop, but playable.