Weird freeze in game

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Samitat
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Post by Samitat »

Ok i logged in and began training missions but as soon as my the comp move my ship, all screen turns blacks exept for my visor. I can still see the visor and menu so i tried quitting mission and trying it again, same problem. Any help please?
FreeBeer
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Post by FreeBeer »

Have you checked this in the knowledge base: click me

It doesn't quite fit what you've described, but your description is indicative of something going amiss with the video drivers. Try the solutions found at the link, and if that doesn't help, post again with the help template located here: click me next if needed
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Tigereye
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Post by Tigereye »

Hm, yeah.

If everything looks OK at first, but slowly starts looking "weird" then it's usually a sign of impending doom for your videocard. Especially if you start seeing "artifacts" or jagged lines popping up in the middle of gameplay.

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Pisnaz
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Post by Pisnaz »

I also have had this problem. But only during the training sessions #2 & 3 and only when the ship is slewed by the computer. I have no other problems during game play or such just the screen goes black and the reticule/ship info stays. I tried no aa, reconfiged my vid card, disabled the OC on the vid card, etc. In safe mode everything works no problem. I tried turning off all the options under graphics but could not proceed with the trg missions no matter what I tried. The symptoms that appear similar to this are related to nvidia cards wheras I have an ati card. It seems concidential that 2 of us suddenly had this unheard of problem very recently.
If there is an advanced config file (I looked and saw nothing) let me know and I will play around seeing if I can get the trg scenarios to work fully on my system.

I am curious if this may be related to a network connectivity problem. I can not connect to the lobby as of yet since I have to forward ports on my *nix server to allow allegiance to pass through Allegiance needs to be able to hear ports 2300-2400 in order to play due to the nature of my iptables rules the ports are blocked. I will fix this and report. Sadly this is not as easy as usual as this is my backup server (meaning it may take a while).

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