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Oh i hat u black screen!

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Da_MaN33

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Ok when i play Doom 3 after awhile it starts flashing a black screen like this the letter A is the black screen and the letter B is the game! ABABABABABABABABABABABA. And sometimes it does that "paused movie effect" The paused movie affect is like when u pause a VHS and it has those weird white bars well its the same for Doom 3 except its black bars and its not paused. Does anyone kno wats going on. I Greatly appreciat ur answers! :)
 
What video card? Any overclocking? If so, go to stock. Also, I've heard some complaints that a few newer ATI cards were cut too close to the limits and wouldn't run Doom 3 without underclocking. So, if you have an X800 or whichever it was, try underclocking just a bit and see what happens. I'm just guessing here though. It sounds almost like your card is set to some funny setting like interlacing or something.

Failing all that, try more info. Operating system, video card, drivers, settings, etc.
 
Well, if it's a Radeon card, I recommend ATITool for testing and RadLinker for a more permanent solution (radlinker is capable of applying the settings on startup.) For nVidia, find and apply the coolbits registry patch to enable the built in settings for your card. Of course, neither of these apply if your card doesn't support overclocking. In most of these cases, the card can be flashed to support it, but, that can be kind of dangerous, and definitely more advanced than you probably want to go here.

Look up the settings for your card just to be sure. Sometimes these programs don't detect the clocks right. You want to be sure to NOT go over what your card was made for or your system will crash/reboot, potentially doing damage to things like the filesystem. Guessing could take a LOT of tries. Plus it might potentially be able to do damage theoretically if you went too high.

EDIT: BTW, if you don't mind my asking. Just exactly how do you HAT a black screen? d-:
 
ABBA was a sucky rock band from the 80s. But what you're experiencing sucks more.
You need to post what video card it is, then people will have a better understanding of your problem. It would also help to give some specs on your rig and what the history of your vid card installation is...Is D3 the first game u ever played on this card? Does this happen on other games...etc etc.
 
Da_MaN33 said:
after awhile it starts flashing a black screen like this : the letter A is the black screen and the letter B is the game! ABABABABABABABABABABABA.
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Visual and audio aids are the best for giving examples..... dunno what to call that, but it was really effective.
 
yevaud said:
ABBA was a sucky rock band from the 80s. But what you're experiencing sucks more.
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*tsk tsk* I think my parents liked ABBA.

Anyway, this is ABAB, not ABBA. ^_^

Anyway, yeah, like we were saying, provide all the details you can. I can't believe I forgot to mention that part about trying it in other games. THIS PART IS VITAL. If you get the same thing in other games, it's definitely not due to that whole thing about stock clocks being just a bit too close to the line (unless you have one heck of a hot PC case.) Most likely hardware at that point, though I suppose drivers or something could still potentially do something like that.

BTW, I think I figured out how you can hat a blank screen. Take a hat and place it over the monitor. Yeah. Silly me, I don't know why I didn't think of it before. Lol.

EDIT: Hey, I noticed you said the part about it only happening after a while. I didn't realize the significance of that before. That sounds like an important detail now that I give it thought though. It strongly implies that one of the following are possible. A, the heat issue, the card is just too close to the line and Doom 3 is pushing it too hard, B, some other program tries to grab the display for a moment there, but Doom 3 says no, it's mine. I've seen that before a few times with some rude games that wouldn't let me alt-tab. But, usually it's kind of part of that program drawing on half the frames, not black. Still, it's a possibility, especially if the program actually is black. Be sure to check for the B possibility as well. I still suspect A though. ATI has already been caught making some cards that just couldn't quite pull off Doom 3 at the factory clocks (but were fine in just about everything else) by using chips that belonged in the bin for the next card down IMO. nVidia is by no means above such things themselves. It's not really surprising that they might decide to take the easy way out and get a larger value from a chip that would otherwise be sold cheaper since the issue would only show up if the user tried to overclock (to which they just say that they weren't made for overclocking, tough luck) or if something unexpected happened such as Doom 3 using transistors that weren't in use before.
 
maybe if you stopped blinking it would stay steady.....

and have you tried upping the refresh rates of your monitor???
 
am i blind, or did he not post what vid card he has yet after being asked multiple times. I'd hat that problem too if it happened to me :p
 
Erm, the forum says he's offline. He only has responded once to questions, so, multiple times isn't entirely accurate. That's basically just one time since that's all he has actually seen in all fairness.

Anyway, I'm still wondering about that part where it apparently takes a while for the issue to show up. Definitely we need to know what card it is as some are known to have issues even at stock speeds. Also, what are the temperatures? I suspect the card is getting too warm after enough work through those new transistors if it's a new enough card and that's why the problem crops up after a while. Still, there is always the possibility of a software issue or whatever. And it's not exactly the usual description you see for a overheat/unstable clock type of problem either.
 
Da_MaN33 said:
Ok when i play Doom 3 after awhile it starts flashing a black screen like this the letter A is the black screen and the letter B is the game! ABABABABABABABABABABABA. And sometimes it does that "paused movie effect" The paused movie affect is like when u pause a VHS and it has those weird white bars well its the same for Doom 3 except its black bars and its not paused. Does anyone kno wats going on. I Greatly appreciat ur answers! :)
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If you're using a radeon change your drivers to the 4.8 or the Doom 3 drivers ati released. I had the same problem, but I use Omega drivers now. (www.omegadrivers.net)
 
I had no troubles with the 4.7s on my 9600 Pro. I never touched the 4.8s, but, later, just before I deleted Doom 3, I tried the 4.9 betas and couldn't actually TRULY see the difference (never benchmarked it, but, supposedly it was faster.) It can't hurt to stay up to day mind you, I'm just saying. I would have tried the 4.8s by now, but, well, I'm kind of short one Radeon video card just as they release the darned things. Either way, it's hard to believe it's the drivers so easily.

Oh, and try the Humus tweak if it's ATI btw. That will work the card just the tiniest bit less, though it can potentially introduce graphical glitches (I never saw any, but, some say it does.) Lol, if nothing else you'll get a tiny bit higher FPS. Of course, as I understand it, this has little to no effect on nVidia cards.
 
Sry i had to be somewhere and then i went to sleep well here are my specs

Windows XP
HP Pavilion Desktop
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
1.8 Ghz
512 MB of Ram

Video Card: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro AGP 128MB

Sry but thnx anyway for ur replies.
 
I could be crazy, but.. if its not your drivers, It might sound like some sort of thermal problem.
It probably would be backwards hustling to try "underclocking" the card, tossing a fan to/from the card would probably be a better idea. At least in the name of science. It can't hurt to attempt. If theres any benefit noticed.. You're cooking with gas.

That card should have no issues performing doom3 if all is optimally configured right.

Give it a shot, let us know what youre trying.
 
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