Black screen followed by crash to desktop.

August 23, 2010 4:59 PM from

So, when I try to boot the game (either from Impulse or the .exe itself) I just get a black screen into the default resolution of the game, and then it just returns to the desktop. No crash prompt, no debug.err, nothing. It just switches resolution, blanks the screen out, then returns to the desktop.

I have no idea what's going on here.

Here's my dxdiag: http://pastebin.ca/1923629

It's an iMac running in bootcamp, but all other games work without any issues.

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Reply #1 August 23, 2010 5:20 PM from

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Are you sure there's no debug.err? If it's getting far enough to try initializing the screen, there will be one in My Documents\My Games\Elemental.

If there was a dump zip created in C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic, please post that too.

Reply #2 August 23, 2010 5:47 PM from

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There was no zip, nor was there a debug.err :/

I'm completely certain.

Edit: Silly me, I was looking in the wrong folder!

Here's my debug.err: http://www.immaculatethrash.com/k/debug.err

Reply #3 August 23, 2010 7:21 PM from

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Any ideas? I'm completely clueless here. Changing Prefs.ini settings didn't help at all either.

Reply #4 August 23, 2010 7:28 PM from

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The devs are looking into this issue, as several others have reported similar.

Reply #5 August 24, 2010 8:14 AM from

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Well, it still crashes after the patch

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