<t> Legitimate LOL at previous post.<br/>
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For the record I too am IMMENSELY pleased with you guys. You're doing a fantastic job of reminding everyone why small teams of passionate developers can be so amazing.<br/>
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My game is running flawlessly from a technical standpoint at this ...

<t> Just checking in to confirm I am running 64 it Vista.<br/>
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Also just FYI... I'm assuming the 64 bit OS makes the "switch" link irrelevant. I ran the command lines anyway and received the following message:<br/>
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"An error occurred while attempting to delete the specified data ...

<r> Kaabam!<br/>
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Downloaded the update beta. Opened startup.ini and changed play movie field to 0.<br/>
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Reset my monitor display to original 1920x1200. Game boots directly in to main menu <SM sm="happy0065.gif">[sm=happy0065.gif]</SM><br/>
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Great job. I'll hopefully get to ...

<t> I've had this happen as well... however it was after I was in game for probably 4-5 hours.<br/>
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I played a few tutorials, started one medium sized new game, messed up/figured some stuff out, started a new small scale game with no AI and had this happen at the end of that long stint.<br ...

<t> No problem.<br/>
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I've been playing for a few hours now and game seems stable. I haven't really been fielding a lot of ships/founding many colonies yet etc, but it looks like it's going to run fine other than the resolution.<br/>
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Still clearly have no idea what I am doing in game ...

<t> Okay update.<br/>
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So after monkeying around with everything under the sun I thought "Hmmmmmm... let me change display settings".<br/>
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I usually run my monitor at 1920x1200 so I kicked it down to 1280x1024. Tada... it worked.<br/>
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Scaled back up to 1920x1200 and poof ...

<t> I've now done framework, clean video driver install, disabled scaling, clean IE install, clean direct x install.... same god damn problem.<br/>
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I've clicked on the areas where a "finger" icon pops up, nothing happens, invisible link seems to stay put. Nothing as far as error windows if I ...

Checked IE. Everything is up to date, still the same black screen.

Also tried clicking around the top right a bit but no luck. Any idea what that screen is supposed to be? I'm going to laugh if it is as "Thanks for buying distant worlds!" banner preventing me from playing the game

<r> So I went through all the .NETFramework stuff, and it still takes a good while for the game to load when I launch from steam, but I FINALLY got to the main menu and now this is what I see.<br/>
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Any ideas? The opening cinematic plays fine. I can see cursor changes within the black window ...