Thirith on 5/3/2010 at 07:52
I finally finished Mafia and installed Fallout 3 (the GOTY version). However, the game won't start - I get the launcher, but when I click on "Play", all I get is a black screen, from which I have to reset the computer. (When I try to Ctrl-Alt-Del out of it, I can see a mouse pointer, but I still can't end the programme.)
Has anyone else here run into this problem? I've checked out a number of forums, and it seems to be a relatively frequent problem, but I haven't seen a solution that works consistently. I tried the ffdshow trick, I tried getting rid of GfWL, I tried renaming the binks. I installed a new video card driver (Geforce 260). No change.
I'll probably do a complete reinstall of the game, but I'm not optimistic that this will help. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
TheOutrider on 5/3/2010 at 11:37
Getting rid of GFWL is only going to make things worse, what with the game requiring it and all.
When I had the black screen problem it was my install of GFWL having become broken somehow - try uninstalling it, downloading the (
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=69B2C4DB-0765-4980-9C1B-8F781AD50BD0&displaylang=ko&displaylang=en) redistributable version from MS and reinstalling it. Might need to reinstall Fallout in the process; I can't quite remember what exactly I did to fix it, but after faffing with un- and reinstalling GFW and Fallout in some order it worked again. ;)
Thirith on 5/3/2010 at 12:20
I'll try that, thanks.
Ulukai on 5/3/2010 at 14:48
Don't know if it's related, but I had a problem with Fallout 3 where it would run extremely slowly and stutter. I seem to recall I removed the FFDShow audio/video codec package as it was interfering somehow.
Thirith on 5/3/2010 at 14:49
The reinstall worked. Thanks again to TheOutrider!
Now to bring the game to the breaking point with a selection of mods! :p
