Gzdoom blank screen when booted
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Gzdoom blank screen when booted
I've had this for a little while now. When i boot gzdoom i get the typical "unsupported" display screen with a few moments of it being blank. This seemed to happen when i deleted my .ini file.
Is something wrong with my drivers? I have a Nvidia GT 240
Is something wrong with my drivers? I have a Nvidia GT 240
- Gez
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Re: Gzdoom blank screen when booted
Does it create a new ini? Does ZDoom work?
If so, use ZDoom to set the video mode to windowed and try again.
If so, use ZDoom to set the video mode to windowed and try again.
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Re: Gzdoom blank screen when booted
Yes a new ini file appears upon starting. Software renderer seems to boot just fine when alternating windowed mode as well.
I just did a fresh driver install and the problem still persists. The opengl renderer simply refuses to show up.
I just did a fresh driver install and the problem still persists. The opengl renderer simply refuses to show up.
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Re: Gzdoom blank screen when booted
Bumping to make sure the devs seen my reply
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Re: Gzdoom blank screen when booted
By any chance, do you have triple buffering switched on?
GZdoom doesn't work (for me anyway) when this is switched on.
GZdoom doesn't work (for me anyway) when this is switched on.
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Re: Gzdoom blank screen when booted
Interestingly, it works for me with triple buffering, though it messes with the transitions (wipe, fade, &c.).
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Re: Gzdoom blank screen when booted
Must be a case-by-case then. It completely dies on my laptop.
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Re: Gzdoom blank screen when booted
No, settings are the exact same as yours however.Edward850 wrote:By any chance, do you have triple buffering switched on?
I got the opengl renderer to show up, but only in windowed mode. It goes blank and flashes black and grey upon switching to fullscreen.
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Re: Gzdoom blank screen when booted
Is vsync off?
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Re: Gzdoom blank screen when booted
No i always use v-sync
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Re: Gzdoom blank screen when booted
Well i think i've finally got the solution to this problem. It seems my screen resolution was far too small when in fullscreen (something along the lines of vanilla doom's resolution) and it would not let me view it. I set my res to 1280x720 and that seemed to fix my problem. I'm still not sure where the core issue lies.
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Re: Gzdoom blank screen when booted
Just figured out the source of the problem. It's caused from Jodwin's C#4rp Doom launcher. Upon using gzdoom with it (and possibly a pwad) It causes the - and = screen adjustment keys to become unusable. THEN upon deleting the ini file after restarting the screen becomes blank. The method i posted above fixes this problem. I'm not sure if Gzdoom is at fault here or the launcher, but i will bring it to Jodwin's attention as well just to reassure.
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Re: Gzdoom blank screen when booted
Now that's weird. Why would it hijack the -= keys?
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Re: Gzdoom blank screen when booted
It doesn't. -= keys work just fine for me, and in fact the launcher goes into a frozen state whenever the game starts (this is done to ensure proper cleaning of temporarily extracted zips after game ends):Gez wrote:Now that's weird. Why would it hijack the -= keys?
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private void RunThePort(string portPath, string commandLine)
{
this.Enabled = false;
Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(portPath);
p.StartInfo.FileName = portPath;
p.StartInfo.Arguments = commandLine;
p.Start();
p.WaitForExit();
this.Enabled = true;
}
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Re: Gzdoom blank screen when booted
That's very strange. I'm assuming this a minority case im dealing with then.Jodwin wrote:It doesn't. -= keys work just fine for me, and in fact the launcher goes into a frozen state whenever the game starts (this is done to ensure proper cleaning of temporarily extracted zips after game ends):Gez wrote:Now that's weird. Why would it hijack the -= keys?Code: Select all
(.net 2.0) private void RunThePort(string portPath, string commandLine) { this.Enabled = false; Process p = new Process(); p.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(portPath); p.StartInfo.FileName = portPath; p.StartInfo.Arguments = commandLine; p.Start(); p.WaitForExit(); this.Enabled = true; }