Black Screen When booting Gzdoom

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Black Screen When booting Gzdoom

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Whenever i boot Gzdoom, I simply get a blank black screen. Nothing. It sometimes even appear that error "Not respoding" when i click at the window. I don't know why it happens! the only thing i know about this is: When i load up a wad that only have 3 or 4 maps, it load perfectly fine, but when i load a wad like doom 2, This happens! Any ideas?
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Re: Black Screen When booting Gzdoom

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What's your hard- and software specs?
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Re: Black Screen When booting Gzdoom

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Hard you means hardware space? 19,6 GB.

Software specs? uhhh... Sorry, do you mean my config? (Sorry i'm not so used to these terms, perdon me for being stupid)
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Re: Black Screen When booting Gzdoom

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Please download and run this program: https://www.piriform.com/speccy

Then copy the information it displays, and paste it into a reply to this topic.
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Ok Then. Can't do it right now, Kinda busy. But a note: I don't think it has do with something with hardware, oh no, Because when i run wads with only a few maps, Gzdoom runs perfectly. Temporaly i'm using Qzdoom.
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XASSASSINX wrote:Ok Then. Can't do it right now, Kinda busy. But a note: I don't think it has do with something with hardware, oh no, Because when i run wads with only a few maps, Gzdoom runs perfectly. Temporaly i'm using Qzdoom.
It would still be helpful to know that information so we can officially rule it out.
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Re: Black Screen When booting Gzdoom

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Alright, where it is:

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Operating System
	Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit SP1
CPU
	Intel Pentium E5300 @ 2.60GHz	49 °C
	Wolfdale 45nm Technology
RAM
	4,00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 403MHz (6-6-6-15)
Motherboard
	ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5G41T-M LX (LGA775)	33 °C
Graphics
	731W (1280x720@60Hz)
	Intel G41 Express Chipset (ASUStek Computer Inc)
Storage
	111GB KINGSTON SV300S37A120G ATA Device (SSD)	29 °C
	931GB Seagate Expansion USB Device (USB (SATA))	41 °C
Optical Drives
	TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223B ATA Device
Audio
	Dispositivo de High Definition Audio
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Re: Black Screen When booting Gzdoom

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XASSASSINX wrote:Ok Then. Can't do it right now, Kinda busy. But a note: I don't think it has do with something with hardware, oh no, Because when i run wads with only a few maps, Gzdoom runs perfectly. Temporaly i'm using Qzdoom.
QZDoom and GZDoom are about 99% alike at this point, except that the dynlight model light branch is merged into QZD and not yet in GZD. It is highly unlikely you'd get a black screen with one of them and not with the other. (this assumes you are using nightly builds - if you are comparing latest QZD release with latest GZD release, then please try with a nightly build of GZD)
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Post by Rachael »

Actually, some drivers add in compatibility based on an executable's name. GZDoom has graced the ATI labs in a report before, so it's likely there are some compatibility settings in more modern drivers.

If this is the case, simply renaming gzdoom.exe/qzdoom.exe to the other should solve any problems.
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Re: Black Screen When booting Gzdoom

Post by XASSASSINX »

So... uhhh... The only reason why i'm caring too much about this problem is because there are some mods that work only in gzdoom, Like hideous destructor. But anyways, So i didn't get exaclty the problem, Could be a little more especific?
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