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?