what to do if the screen is black?

meutom · Post by **meutom** » Wed Jan 08, 2003 5:36 am

some dos games act rather strange on my pc. when i try to run them, the screen gets black and a clicking can be heard. then i try to shift the picture from full screen to the window mode. and sometimes it helps, but in most cases it doesn't work. should i obtain some utils to make the games running? or should i do something else?

meutom

procerus · Post by **procerus** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 12:40 pm

Questions, questions meutom.

But what OS?
What games?
And what graphics card?

Sorry...

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:56 pm

Try going to DOS mode (if you have Windows 95 or 98), then run the game.

If you have Windows NT, 2000, or XP it's just as well to give up.

EmbraceThePing · Post by **EmbraceThePing** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 6:13 am

meutom, at a very rough guess it sounds like the sound card config is up the shitter.
If you can, disable the sound in the games setup prog and try again. If you get the game running then you know it's the game and all you need do is DL and setup VDMS.
If the same happens with no sound then .....errr..... don't call me I'll call you lol

Hope this helps

Post by **Dogbreath** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 7:18 am

Jay: Reviving year old topics isn't exactly a big help. I doubt meutom is still around to read this.

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:27 pm

Ummm...

I guess a guy with only one post and this topic being old makes it unnecessary to answer his question.

By the way, I think this forum is getting too fat. Maybe you and/or Emmzee could delete the oldest, uninteresting topics sometime. (Doesn't matter to me, just a suggestion).

Anyway, thanks for the tip, Dogbreath.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:48 pm

Naw, they're good for reference, and we trust that users will be smart enough to look at the post date and distinguish "old" topics from "current" ones as far as dates matter. (Discussion topics like religion don't need this because they have no real start or end.) Bah.

Post by **wardrich** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 10:22 pm

however, if you DO have the for sure answer to something, feel free to post it. That way one can link to it for future reference.