everything is black

[Neubob]

I just downloaded AH2 onto my computer. When I start the game up, everything is black, with the exception of little pieces of blue where I can see the sky through the windows in the tower. The radar is just a bunch of colored dots, with the actual map invisble. The text buffer works, but there's no color in the text that I type and therefore that too, is invisible. There is sound, however, and I can see outlines of certain features on the field if I pan around. I cannot leave the tower because none of the buttons are visible.

My computer is pretty crappy, but it runs just about every game I've tried to put through it. Does anyone know what the problem might be?

[Neubob]

This is a repost from the support forum. Figured it might get more responses here:

I just downloaded AH2 onto my computer. When I start the game up, everything is black, with the exception of little pieces of blue where I can see the sky through the windows in the tower. The radar is just a bunch of colored dots, with the actual map invisble. The text buffer works, but there's no color in the text that I type and therefore that too, is invisible. There is sound, however, and I can see outlines of certain features on the field if I pan around. I cannot leave the tower because none of the buttons are visible.

My computer is pretty crappy, but it runs just about every game I've tried to put through it. Does anyone know what the problem might be?

Thanks in advance.

[Chairboy]

racist

[JB73]

Originally posted by Chairboy
racist

LMFAO

[Terror]

Besides being a racist computer, make sure it has the latest video drivers.

Terror

[Skuzzy]

Send in a DXDIAG output and it will help.  See the bottom of the "Hints and Tips" post on how to do this.

Just a guess, as you did not provide any specs for the system, I would say try updating the video card drivers to the most current ones, but that may not be the correct answer (but it seldom hurts to do so).

[Skuzzy]

Please do not cross post.