Medieval 2 Total War Black Screen On Battle(Notebook)

[karakus]

Hi all,

I just installed MTW2 to my sony vaio VGN-FW5MTF laptop. I have installed all patches. But when I enter the battle after 5 minutes black screen appears and i cant give any command to my laptop. I updated drivers of my graphic card but issue still continues. Im playing full of options. Im giving my laptop specifications:

6 GB Ram
Ati Radeon Mobility HD 4650 ( drivers updated 1.16)
Intel Core 2 Duo Cpu p8700 2.53GHz 2.53GHz
64 bit
Windows 7 and Direcx 11 installed.

Note : by the way when i optioned resulution to 1280x768 or low graphic im not getting problem. But not getting good graphic for full hd laptop.( normally im playing 1920x1080)

Thank you

[irishron]

Sounds like heat, unfortunately. Got a cool pad for it?

[karakus]

I havent. But are you sure ?Does it make differences 1280 x 768 to 1920x1080?

Also how i can get rate of heating degree of laptop? I want to see second by second while playing a game like FPS degree.

Thank you

[irishron]

You would not be the first one this forum having to invest in a cool pad. Do a search.

Slao, get one of the programs out there for monitoring temps and voltages to see what it does under stress.

[karakus]

OK got a program and shows these degrees while surfing on internet:

HDD : 39C
Temp1 : 68C
Temp2 : 68C
Core : 62 C
Core1 : 63C

Are these normal?

[irishron]

Core and Core I would say is processor and possibly "normal" for notebooks but getting high for me.

Temp 1 and temp 2 I would say at least one is the graphics card/chip. This game can push it up anther 10 degrees C and battles can push it up more. It could be the problem with running the game.

Surfing the net is a walk in the park compared to 3d gaming.

[karakus]

yes u are right when i open the program while playing mdtw2 its about raising to 100C on all degrees. Does cooling pad is solution for this?

[irishron]

It can be. One player got a Belkin one that solved this for him. It would beat not being able to play the game.

[karakus]

I will check that. Thank you for your interest. Appreciation from Turkey.

[irishron]

You're welcome.

[Matty_Dickson]

i know this is very late on this post, but i was wandering if you could help me with my problem with the black screen.

Ok, i have M2TW gold (includes Kingdoms), so gold installs properly ish but kingdoms doesn't install at all but my main problem is the black screen, as when i click the M2TW icon and press play and select M2TW (at this time the music is playing) but then the screen goes black, i then have to hit ctrl+alt+esc multiple times to get to desktop and then the music plays again. My computer can definately handle it as it is a custom built pc that handles all modern games on ultra.

i have tried installing new versons of .NET Framework and disabling UAC (or something like that) and many other things, And i would be very greatfull for you're help,

Thank You

[irishron]

i know this is very late on this post, but i was wandering if you could help me with my problem with the black screen.

Ok, i have M2TW gold (includes Kingdoms), so gold installs properly ish but kingdoms doesn't install at all but my main problem is the black screen, as when i click the M2TW icon and press play and select M2TW (at this time the music is playing) but then the screen goes black, i then have to hit ctrl+alt+esc multiple times to get to desktop and then the music plays again. My computer can definately handle it as it is a custom built pc that handles all modern games on ultra.

i have tried installing new versons of .NET Framework and disabling UAC (or something like that) and many other things, And i would be very greatfull for you're help,

Thank You

This game is old by your standards and does things by its own rules.
Post your dxdiag.

[Matty_Dickson]

just googleing it now

do you want me to post all like the four little tab things?

i am not allowed to post it because of this

Post denied. New posts are limited by number of URLs it may contain and checked if it doesn't contain forbidden words.

sorry i think im being an idiot, the DxDiag test thing came up with no errors

i did the same test again and got this error

The file aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll is not digitally signed, which means that it has not been tested by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL). You may be able to get a WHQL logo'd driver from the hardware manufacturer.

DxDiag Notes
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Display Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
Input Tab: No problems found.

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DirectX Debug Levels
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Direct3D: 0/4 (retail)
DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)

[irishron]

http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/topic...-X-Diagnostics

[Matty_Dickson]

Sorry man, but it tells me that i am not allowed to post a post of that size

This is what it says when I try to copy and paste the text in the reply section.

Post denied. New posts are limited by number of URLs it may contain and checked if it doesn't contain forbidden words.

[Matty_Dickson]

i could give you them through skype if you wanted as there are no restrictions?

[irishron]

You can as an attachment.
On the bottom of the Quick Reply is a Go Advanced button.
Click it and click the paperclip icon on the next screen.

[Matty_Dickson]

should be it, i'm really sorry

[irishron]

Do you have a regular computer monitor to try this on?
In Device Manager, what other sound options do you have besides AMD HDMI? Possible culprit.

[Matty_Dickson]

well i only have my t.v, and i dont actualy have a sound card as of yet as i don't have the oney. do you think the t.v could be the prblem?