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    Game and graphic freeze during early game, tab back in, game resume but screen is entirely black

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    • C Offline
      Commander_Adama
      last edited by

      Every 5-7 game or so my game freeze completely. Sometimes I can tab out and in and it's fine. But more often than not the game resumes but the screen is entirely black and do not return to normal.

      Solutions and suggestions are welcome.

      GPU: Nvidia 1070ti (drivers up to date)
      Cpu: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X Six-Core Processor 3.60 GHz
      Ram: 16 GB
      OS: Windows 10

      Current mods installed (blue are active)
      04fc70c0-67e4-49bf-8695-d47d82a2eba6-billede.png

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      • Ctrl-KC Offline
        Ctrl-K
        last edited by

        Send logs of these games

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        • C Offline
          Commander_Adama
          last edited by

          game_19674376.log

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          • Ctrl-KC Offline
            Ctrl-K
            last edited by

            There is nothing to look at, it is 1 minute game log

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            • C Offline
              Commander_Adama
              last edited by

              Yes, got the freeze 10sec into the game or so thats why it is so short.
              Have some old logs but that is from. prev faf version and prob. some othe mods

              Black_Screen_game_16798573.log Black_screen_gamegame_16838946.log

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              • maggeM Offline
                magge Global Moderator
                last edited by

                black_screen_gamegame_16838946_2023-04-08_12-38-03.log

                Error type: System sound configuration error
                Error line number: 1122

                Error line: warning: SND: XACT3DApply failed.

                Error description: Incompatible sound configuration causes issues which will lead to random crashes.

                Error solution: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/4084/solutions-for-snd-error-xact-invalid-arg-xact3dapply-failed

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                • C Offline
                  Commander_Adama
                  last edited by

                  Thanks a lot. I'll try the relevant stuff suggested. And report back here if it works. Some of the solutions requires several played games without sound so it might take a couple of days.

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                  • C Offline
                    Commander_Adama @magge
                    last edited by

                    @magge

                    Have played many games with the game sound turned off with the /nosound method.
                    Got the black screen even with this enabled. The log file attached a friend stubled upon:

                    warning: GetResource: Invalid name ""
                    info: Can't find texture "" -- trying fallback.
                    info: Minimized false
                    warning: failed to initialize particle buffer
                    warning: failed to initialize particle buffer
                    debug: Current gametime: 00:02:00
                    warning: failed to initialize particle buffer
                    warning: c:\work\rts\main\code\src\libs\gpggal\DeviceD3D9.cpp(581) Device lost
                    warning: c:\work\rts\main\code\src\libs\gpggal\DeviceD3D9.cpp(937) Device lost

                    Hope this can help solve help?

                    Black_Screen_game_19748980.log

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                    • maggeM Offline
                      magge Global Moderator
                      last edited by magge

                      Which graphic card do you have? Also, you have the newest drivers?

                      @Commander_Adama Usually a restart solves the Device lost issue. I am not aware of any fix for these, because only a very few people encounter that issue.

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                        Dragun101
                        last edited by

                        And obligstory launched once via steam

                        I’m a shitty 1k Global. Any balance or gameplay suggestions should be understood or taken as such.

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