Hello Community,
since a few days I am having serious problems with starting the game.
Symptom:
Each and every time I start the game the screen turns black without mouse pointer / content / menu + game sound, some sounds e.g. Skype conversations continue. I think the game does not crash, but I am not so sure about it because non of my Inputs get executed e.g. ALT+TAB / ALT+F4 / CTRL+ALT+DEL, so I can not exclude a crash 100%.
The only solution to unfreeze my PC from this state is a hard reset.
I have found a thread with someone reporting a similar problem. He gets a black screen, followed by a crash report and a populated log.txt, which is different from my error. Thread found here: http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/131992/black-screen-then-log-txt-error#latest
Things I´ve tried:
Sidenotes:
My PC Specs are:
My Log.txt is pretty empty, maybe because the error occurs within the initial loading phase?
I have attached the tech_support.zip file.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
since a few days I am having serious problems with starting the game.
Symptom:
Each and every time I start the game the screen turns black without mouse pointer / content / menu + game sound, some sounds e.g. Skype conversations continue. I think the game does not crash, but I am not so sure about it because non of my Inputs get executed e.g. ALT+TAB / ALT+F4 / CTRL+ALT+DEL, so I can not exclude a crash 100%.
The only solution to unfreeze my PC from this state is a hard reset.
I have found a thread with someone reporting a similar problem. He gets a black screen, followed by a crash report and a populated log.txt, which is different from my error. Thread found here: http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/131992/black-screen-then-log-txt-error#latest
Things I´ve tried:
- redownload -and install the game
- updated my graphics card driver to the latest version (13-4_win7_win8_64_dd_ccc_whql)
- tried out an outdated graphics card driver (13-1_vista_win7_win8_64_dd_ccc_whql)
- disabled my Firewall (Comodo Free Firewall Ver. 6.2.285401.2860)
- followed instructions from these threads:
Sidenotes:
- the game (Reinforced build) worked fine with my Win7 x64 Setup before
- I formatted my PC and installed Win8 x64 with all necessary programs / tools to play NS2
- I crawled the entire TechSupp Forum for a possible fix and tried everything which seemed remotely promising
- meanwhile I returned to Win7 x64 with the same issue as with Win8 shortly before
- NS2 is installed on my Primary (SSD) Harddrive while Steam and every other game resides on another Harddrive ( D: )
My PC Specs are:
- OS: Windows 7 64 Bit SP1 Build 7601
- Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P
- CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955 @ ~3,7GHz
- RAM: Kingston 2x 4GB 1666MHz
- Graphics Card: Sapphire ATI Radeon VAPOR-X HD 7970 GHz Edition
- DirectX 11
My Log.txt is pretty empty, maybe because the error occurs within the initial loading phase?
Spoiler:
Content of file: C:\Users\Moe\AppData\Roaming\Natural Selection 2\log.txt
Date: 09/04/13
Time: 14:20:05:
Build 254
Windows 7 64-bit (build 7601)
Error: PhysX: Invalid Cuda context!
Steam initialized
Num displays: 1
Date: 09/04/13
Time: 14:20:05:
Build 254
Windows 7 64-bit (build 7601)
Error: PhysX: Invalid Cuda context!
Steam initialized
Num displays: 1
Any help is greatly appreciated.