STALKER problem

Swi1ch

Swi1ch

Swi1ch

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I just finished building my new rig etc etc, and played Crysis and it runs brill.

STALKER Shadow of Chernoble(sp) just finished downloading on Steam, but when I run it I lose all display to my monitor. It just dies straight away. I'm still hearing the game, but no display is coming from my machine.

Any ideas?
 
Swi1ch said:
I just finished building my new rig etc etc, and played Crysis and it runs brill.

STALKER Shadow of Chernoble(sp) just finished downloading on Steam, but when I run it I lose all display to my monitor. It just dies straight away. I'm still hearing the game, but no display is coming from my machine.

Any ideas?
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Up to date Graphics Drivers?

What happens if you minimize the game, does it display the desktop?
 
Drivers are up to date.

And no, the screen doesn't just go black. I lose all signal. My monitor light flashes on and off to indictate no signal at all.
 
I had this problem a bit back but my wholse system would lock and no sound...

You on nvidia GPU or ATi?

Is your sound still playing or looping?
 
GTX280 OC

And i'm not sure about sound because I dunno what i'm supposed to be hearing. I definately hear the THQ logo screen, then after a while some music or something or other.

I'm worried because it's quite clearly my system cutting the display signal, but just tried Crysis and it works fine.
 
Right. How do you have your nVidia card setup through windows?

I mean on the nVidia control panel. Have you set it to allow the 3d application to decide on the quality settings thing or for it to be program/game based? Or for Performance, Quality or Medium?
 
Vista 32. Tried compatability, windowed, all the stuff you can think of.

It appears through various googles that the game might be trying to boot at a res my monitor doesn't support (Native res is 1280x1024)

I've found a workaround I think. I was looking for a boot-menu where I can configure settings and opened 'Test-Ap', and it booted. Gonna try and play now.
 
I'm having problems with it on XP with an ATI 3850. It'll play fine for about five minutes then begin to stutter and eventually lock up. All drivers are up to date. It does it every time.
 
I think it's sorted.

@ Scuzi

If it's Steam, right click on the game in steam games menu, click properties, click launch options, and type without quotes "-no prefetch"

Obviously outside steam, put this in the command line launch options thingy.
 
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