Black screen Neverwinter nights

[Top_Cat]

Hi all,

I have neverwinter Ningts but as soon as the game loads I just get a black screen. I have aG400MAx with the latest drivers


Top Cat

[Belwarrior]

I have a strange feeling that NWN was written for Nvidia (coz i can run it smoothly on a TNT2Ultra) and was patched for ATi but the other companies had been forgotten.
I have the same black screen using a Voodoo3 2000 card even though it had no problems running D2 or Warcraft3 using the underground drivers (original support long gone).
May need to wait for a patch for NWN to support other manufacturers cards.

[Top_Cat]

A friend said that with the latest play 1.20 (i think) it removed the black screen problem on his Voodoo 3 card. Hopefully that will hep you mate

Same I see nothing for my little G400 Max. I am considering getting a nvidia card just to play this game

Thanks

Top Cat

[Drizzt]

G400, and NWN run without a single problem.

[Top_Cat]

doh! looks like it must be something to do with my setup then! I have tried re-installing the game three times! Looks like I will have to do a reformat and see if that sorts out the problem.

Thanks

Top Cat

[Belwarrior]

Erm Top Cat, may i know what OS and what drivers for the voodoo card your friend is using.. it would be a great help and drizzt what matrox drivers are you using anyway, the latest?

[Novdid]

It would help a lot if Top cat could post some sys specs. What OS etc, etc.

[Top_Cat]

Hi,

not sure what OS my friend is running but he said that he had a black screen problem but then he installed the latest drivers and it cleared the problem.

as for my set up
Athlon 700 (Slot A)
Matrox G400 MAX - latest drivers
Windows 2000 (SP2)
384MB PC 100 SDram
IBM 30GB HD

Thanks

Top Cat

[Drizzt]

I had the 582 and 584beta.
Not yet tried with the 585.

[Top_Cat]

I did not know that 585 was out so have been using 584. Where can I download 585 i don't see them on the matrox FTP

[Novdid]

The betas are there on the Matrox page:

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm

Be shure to remove yuor old drivers completely before installing the new ones, if you have a via mobo do a quick search in the forums, and you'll find lots of info on how you configure it the best way.