Certain lighting causes blackscreens
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:51 am
I have an Nvidia Geforce 9600 GT, and the game runs beautifully on it, save for instances where uncommon lighting is present.
For instance, I have issues with it blackscreening in a manner similar to a display driver crash at the Save Crystals, or when I placed a torch in a sconce in a pitch black room. It just revs up my fans and sends me to a black screen.
I updated my drivers, thinking they were the problem, but the issue persists.
Is anyone else having an issue like this? I would really like to progress further!
Update: After crawling around the forum a bit deeper, it seems that this might be related to GPU over-taxing. I'm going to try the most-suggested fix (Enabling V-Sync) and see how that works. I will report on results.
Update 2: Well, Vsync let it run longer, but I still had a blackscreen. This time it was near one of the blue, shimmery portals. Going to play with the settings one last time and hope it lets me run the game without issue. Otherwise I'll just have to wait for a patch, guys.
Update C: Lowering the settings seems to have alleviated enough stress to keep it from offing itself. Strange, though, because I can run much harder games on this system and they don't quit. I guess there must be a leak somewhere in the code.
For instance, I have issues with it blackscreening in a manner similar to a display driver crash at the Save Crystals, or when I placed a torch in a sconce in a pitch black room. It just revs up my fans and sends me to a black screen.
I updated my drivers, thinking they were the problem, but the issue persists.
Is anyone else having an issue like this? I would really like to progress further!
Update: After crawling around the forum a bit deeper, it seems that this might be related to GPU over-taxing. I'm going to try the most-suggested fix (Enabling V-Sync) and see how that works. I will report on results.
Update 2: Well, Vsync let it run longer, but I still had a blackscreen. This time it was near one of the blue, shimmery portals. Going to play with the settings one last time and hope it lets me run the game without issue. Otherwise I'll just have to wait for a patch, guys.
Update C: Lowering the settings seems to have alleviated enough stress to keep it from offing itself. Strange, though, because I can run much harder games on this system and they don't quit. I guess there must be a leak somewhere in the code.