THE THREAD!!!

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Frustrated tithe.  I tried updating my graphics card drivers but something went screwy in the middle of the update, now I keep getting a bblack screen when windows starts [:@]  I've updated all the drivers manually and it still keeps happening...

go into safe mode, uninstall the drivers and start from scratch

Done that. Safe mode works. Restart the PC and it works fine, when I install the new drivers and restart I get the black screen. Every tine [:@] Drivers have been unistalled and reinstall four times now,,,

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

weekend tithe......i see the Oahu can never be invaded thread is up to 20 pages.

Sad, but predictable... Like "Castor Troy" and his whining. Maybe he should find a game that's easier for him; AE is obviously too difficult.

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Frustrated tithe.  I tried updating my graphics card drivers but something went screwy in the middle of the update, now I keep getting a bblack screen when windows starts [:@]  I've updated all the drivers manually and it still keeps happening...

go into safe mode, uninstall the drivers and start from scratch

Done that. Safe mode works. Restart the PC and it works fine, when I install the new drivers and restart I get the black screen. Every tine [:@] Drivers have been unistalled and reinstall four times now,,,

Can you successfull reinstall the older drivers?

[BrucePowers]

Lunch time tithe[:)]

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

weekend tithe......i see the Oahu can never be invaded thread is up to 20 pages.

Sad, but predictable... Like "Castor Troy" and his whining. Maybe he should find a game that's easier for him; AE is obviously too difficult.

Why can't people just enjoy the game?

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Nikademus




go into safe mode, uninstall the drivers and start from scratch

Done that. Safe mode works. Restart the PC and it works fine, when I install the new drivers and restart I get the black screen. Every tine [:@] Drivers have been unistalled and reinstall four times now,,,

Can you successfull reinstall the older drivers?

The rollback option isn't there, so I'm going to try some older drivers from the website. I wish I knew where the original driver disk was right now.

[BrucePowers]

I have a bad habit of misplacing driver disks.....

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

weekend tithe......i see the Oahu can never be invaded thread is up to 20 pages.

Sad, but predictable... Like "Castor Troy" and his whining. Maybe he should find a game that's easier for him; AE is obviously too difficult.

Why can't people just enjoy the game?

Because they enjoy whining more.

[BrucePowers]

That's true. I forgot that.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Frustrated tithe.  I tried updating my graphics card drivers but something went screwy in the middle of the update, now I keep getting a bblack screen when windows starts [:@]  I've updated all the drivers manually and it still keeps happening...

What OS, what gfx card and what driver Martin?


Leo "Apollo11"

[Dixie]

Vista 64
nvidia geforce 8800gt
the latest drivers from the website


I've downloaded some older ones that I'm going to try. After that I'm out of ideas...

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers


Why can't people just enjoy the game?

For some the game is only an outlet to vent their agendas.

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Lunch time tithe[:)]

Sounds like a plan. Me, too!

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Vista 64
nvidia geforce 8800gt
the latest drivers from the website


I've downloaded some older ones that I'm going to try. After that I'm out of ideas...

If nothing else works, as a last resort you might try drivers designated for another O/S. I had an ongoing issue with getting one of my laptops to run an Epson Scan utility using the designated XP drivers. After a dozen unsuccesses i installed the "vista" version and wella.....program now runs perfectly even though i'm running XP and the program is the "Vista" version.

Nvidia drivers can be finiky. If all else fails roll back to old set.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers


Why can't people just enjoy the game?

For some the game is only an outlet to vent their agendas.

Much as the French view wine as a 'flavor enhancer' with meals, I view playing AE and forum visits as a 'whine enhancer'. They truly complement one another. My whines wouldn't be nearly as complete if I didn't play the game. My gaming wouldn't be as fulfilling if I couldn't whine about how much I suck at the game.

[:D]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Vista 64
nvidia geforce 8800gt
the latest drivers from the website

I've downloaded some older ones that I'm going to try. After that I'm out of ideas...

This is very similar to my workstartion at work... (Vista x64 and nVIDIA 8xxx)...

I am still using "nVIDIA ForceWare v191-07 Vista (x64)" and it is OK.

Can you find those? Do you want me to find it for you?


Leo "Apollo11"

[Nikademus]

I had a recent battle getting "Mass Effect" to work on my Win7(x64) rig. Forgetting the old axom that usually the simplest solutions are the correct ones, I patched, installed an older version of DirectX and read through several FAQ's before trying the most simple solution....running the exe as "administrator" problem solved.

I've noticed that Win7 is very finiky about this, right down to not giving any hint as to why. (in XP, on the rare occasions you'll get a msg saying you don't have priviledges.....Win7 just says program stopped working, search for solution? and if you click yes....it hour glasses then does nothing.)

[Dixie]

I'm getting really fed up now.  Before the nvidia drivers are installed the PC loads fine using a VGA driver.  After the drivers are installed I get a black screen at the point where I'd usually get a windows is loading screen.  No mouse or keyboard, no cursor, no HDD activity, nothing. [:@]

I'v tried the 181.22 vista 64 drivers, and the same thing happens.  Not sure where to go from here.  There's no option to rollback the drivers, and system restore doesn't seem to have solved it.

[Nikademus]

have you tried the Win7 or XP x64 drivers?

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

have you tried the Win7 or XP x64 drivers?

I'm downloading some XP drivers now. Any ideas why it's playing up like this?