Black Screen

[MizunoTakarai]

Hi there, fellow wastelanders!

My Fallout 3 was running smoothly but suddenly I only get a black screen with the background music on startup.

I have tried downloading the latest drivers for both my screen and my graphic card and also reinstalling the whole thing but I still get the same annoying issue. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[fap6000]

Got any more details there Mr. putting heads on posts out in the wasteland? If the game works but the loading screen doesn't, some wierd issue with the interface. Idk that could be some of the foundation software which FO3 runs off. Personally I use the grapics card driver that came in the box with the card. Updating your grapics driver was fine when it couldn't get you into more trouble than you were already in, not really the case now, you can actually cause issues from updating it, or burn your card up.

 

You could un-install a bunch of foundation software, via the "set program access an defaults" in the windows start menu. Stuff like Direct X, .Net framework, Visual C++, heck un-install all of it that you know you don't use, particuarly things like the Direct X, .Net framework, Visual C+. Then from that same set program access an defaults menu, click add programs, then windows update, this just launches to the web-page for microsofts auto-update. Install the active X control an it will detect what you need. I pretty much take all the high priority updates, then open the + sign in the optionals an read to see if I need it. Mostly everything you need you get from the high priority updates, but be sure to get the .net framework family...

 

If it's not this, then your grapics card might be about to kick the bucket, or any other hardware piece, but that's a dead reckoning guess because we lack the details about the situation to work on any kind of diagnosis... Thank you drive thru. :D You re-installed huh, you could have a messy registry, something in there, clean it up maybe?