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Chosin51
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Black Screen With Cursor

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I downloaded the update and the game seemed to work fine but then when attempting to start I got the error message
'unable to locate project file'. I uninstalled and reinstalled the program from the original download but now I just get a black screen. Any advice would be appreciated! I have attached the output log file.

Regards

Steve
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Lukas
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RE: Black Screen With Cursor

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Try deleting or renaming the Settings folder in <my documents>/My Games/Order of Battle - Pacific
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Chosin51
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RE: Black Screen With Cursor

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Thanks Lukas, the game has started working again.

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Steve
valkyrion
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Where would this folder be on the Mac side, I tried verifying cache and re installing from steam after deleting everything I could find but still have just a black screen.
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ORIGINAL: Valkyrie_ssl

Where would this folder be on the Mac side, I tried verifying cache and re installing from steam after deleting everything I could find but still have just a black screen.
At:
Users\<username>\Order of Battle - Pacific\Settings
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After deleting that folder I then got a green background when I relaunched the game.
Verifying the steam files took me back to a black screen.
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Try the following:
Right click on the game in your Steam library list, select properties and uncheck "enable steam overlay".
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Well I now get a black screen with audio but that is it after disabling the steam overlay.
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Can you try downloading the file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5bwwuzvefux0i ... d.zip?dl=0

Unzip the content (options.dat) to Users/<username>/Order of Battle - pacific/Settings, replacing the existing file. This should start your game in 1024x768 windowed mode.

Does that get you into the main menu?
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ORIGINAL: Lukas

Can you try downloading the file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5bwwuzvefux0i ... d.zip?dl=0

Unzip the content (options.dat) to Users/<username>/Order of Battle - pacific/Settings, replacing the existing file. This should start your game in 1024x768 windowed mode.

Does that get you into the main menu?
That gets me into the main menu thanks! Should I be ok to edit the settings at this point?
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Yes, you can try. But do it one by one. One must options might be causing your issue.
In case of need just copy the file again.
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It seems to be going to fullscreen causes the game to go all black for me.
Window mode seems to correct this.
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VPaulus
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RE: Black Screen With Cursor

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Try lowering down the quality of the graphics in the Performance menu.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/312450/di ... 122310561/
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Will do, thanks for the help getting this going again!
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