Playing Dark Avatar in Digital video mode

July 5, 2007 3:18 PM from

Hi, after updating dark avatar to the latest, it would never start up. After starting the game, the screen would flicker and then a portion of the desktop would black out and the game wouldn't start. I have to right click - close on the taskbar.

Anyway, after not knowing what was going on, I took a shot in the dark and switched my display settings to the analog display setting on my video card (nvidia 7600GS). I had swithced it to digital a while back.

And the game finally starts up now.

Is there a known issue with running DA in digital display mode? Or is there a setting i'm missing? Not that it matters too much i guess since the game runs in analog.

thanks, also throwing this out there for those who might not have tried this.

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Reply #1 July 6, 2007 11:10 AM from

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Please go to C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2 (or wherever you installed the game at), open the debug.err file you find there in notepad, and copy/paste the contents into a post here. If this is a DA report, you'll find the debug in C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar instead. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem.

Be sure to copy the debug immediately after the error occurs; if you start the game again, the debug will be erased and recreated for the new session.

Note: If running on Vista with DA 1.6b2 or later, the debug.err is now located in My Documents\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar.

Reply #2 July 8, 2007 9:31 AM from

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Wouldn't ya know it, I can't recreate the crash. It works fine now in both analog and digital modes.

The only thing I changed, I think, was the in game resolution to match the native widescreen res. of my monitor. After I launched the game in analog, I switched the in game res. Then I switched to digital mode for a test and it launched fine. It wasn't the known issue of having a desktop res. too low.

Anyway, thanks for the response

Reply #3 July 9, 2007 12:40 PM from

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The only thing I changed, I think, was the in game resolution to match the native widescreen res.

That'll do it. Some displays just don't cooperate well with the game trying to run outside desktop or native resolutions.

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