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Aquaria => Support => Topic started by: ghunum on May 08, 2010, 02:32:28 pm

Title: unplayable - menu and game screens are mostly (but not 100%) black
Post by: ghunum on May 08, 2010, 02:32:28 pm

Hi,

I got the game as part of the Humble Indie Bundle, which I was (and am) really excited about.

However when I start it, I don't see a menu screen, I just see a black screen with the circular mouse cursor. I can move it around and it lights up when it's over a viable menu option. When I click it, it works (prompts me to start a new game, load a save game, exit the program, etc.)

If I start a new game, I can see my cursor and the minimap in the bottom right corner but everything else on the screen is black. I can double click the minimap and see the big map, and I can move my character around and sing, but I don't see anything but black...

I updated my graphics driver this morning to the latest - here's my configuration:

Lenovo T400
Win 7 Enterprise
Intel graphics
3GB RAM
blah blah blah, everything else should be normal :-)

Any help would be appreciated! I tried re-downloading the game and it didn't help...

Cam

Title: Re: unplayable - menu and game screens are mostly (but not 100%) black
Post by: ghunum on May 11, 2010, 07:45:13 am

Hello again,

I've thought about this some more. It seems like some graphic elements (the minimap, the world map, the mouse cursors) are on a different layer, or rendered differently than the menu backgrounds and the game screen itself.  Does that make sense? I would love to play this game, but I'm not sure where to start.

Cam

Title: Re: unplayable - menu and game screens are mostly (but not 100%) black
Post by: Alec on May 11, 2010, 07:53:32 am

All I can think of is it's some kind of OpenGL / Graphics Driver problem. One place to start would be investigating whether other people have problems with OpenGL-based games with that particular video card.

Title: Re: unplayable - menu and game screens are mostly (but not 100%) black
Post by: ghunum on May 11, 2010, 05:04:17 pm

Thanks Alec,

I'll check it out. The latest version of my drivers don't have so many options for tweaking bits of OpenGL, so I'll see what I can dig up...

Title: Re: unplayable - menu and game screens are mostly (but not 100%) black
Post by: Phlimm on May 12, 2010, 03:31:17 am

Same exact issue here, just DLed the Humble build pack.  Here are the System specs:

Laptop - 2 GB RAM, Intel Core 2 CPU T5500 1.66 GHz
Windows Vista
ATI Mobility Rage X1400

Here is a screenshot of the main game screen with the cursor over the "Exit" option:

(http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/7021/aquaria.jpg)

Tried with all combinations of the config options, VSync, Framebuffer and Fullscreen.  This is the best I can get it to look.