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Screen goes black!?!?
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coppersteel22
July 27, 2004, 9:34 am
I've had a few problems with Soldat before and fixed them by disabling the intro. But when I Join a game it loads the game and then everything goes black and I can hear the noises(gun fires ect.) in the background and nothing else happens until I get out of it by ctrl+alt+delete. wtf do i do.

b00stA
July 27, 2004, 6:29 pm
http://www.soldat.pl/faq.html
1. The game does not run! I get an error: cannot initialize 3d hardware, or something like that.

It's a hardware compatibility error:
- Make sure you have the latest DirectX drivers
- Try to run the game in window-mode
- Change the Windows desktop colors from 32-bit to 16-bit
- Try to change some Soldat Config settings (turn off Antialiasing, check 16-bit)
- Install the latest or different video drivers
- Try changing the windows desktop resolution and bit-rate
- Try turning down or up the graphics hardware acceleration (My Computer/Properties/Performance/Graphics)
- Try updating your motherboard drivers
- Check also this this topic on the forum - 3d initialization problem
- If you have Windows NT/2000 install the latest service pack

6. I play the game and I don't see anything. I just hear the sounds.

Turn on the monitor.
If it still doesn't work, its a hardware compatibility error. The same as in question 1.