Black screen [7372]
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Black screen [7372]
This is with a new install. Compiled 7372, and well...
Startup goes into full screen mode but screen is blank. If I move the mouse to a different monitor it goes into window mode and is fine, make that window active again and it switches back to full screen and is blank again.
Starting with -f (fullscreen), comes up blank but when moving the mouse to another monitor the normal startup screen appears on the monitor it was started on, move the mouse back to the same monitor and it blanks again.
Doesn't seem to matter which monitor it's started on, same effect.
Startup goes into full screen mode but screen is blank. If I move the mouse to a different monitor it goes into window mode and is fine, make that window active again and it switches back to full screen and is blank again.
Starting with -f (fullscreen), comes up blank but when moving the mouse to another monitor the normal startup screen appears on the monitor it was started on, move the mouse back to the same monitor and it blanks again.
Doesn't seem to matter which monitor it's started on, same effect.
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Re: Black screen [7372]
Try rebooting your system, then try recompiling from a cleaned build / from scratch.
Don't think anything relevant changed in the code, but can you reproducibly get this on 7372 but not the previous version you built? If so, at what revision does it start happening?
Don't think anything relevant changed in the code, but can you reproducibly get this on 7372 but not the previous version you built? If so, at what revision does it start happening?
Re: Black screen [7372]
This was a new install actually (had reinstalled this sytem), had just gotten around to compiling FreeOrion on here since then, other then initially pulled down 7333, but just tried that out today and had the same problem. So updated to 7372 and the problem repeated.Geoff the Medio wrote:Try rebooting your system, then try recompiling from a cleaned build / from scratch.
Don't think anything relevant changed in the code, but can you reproducibly get this on 7372 but not the previous version you built? If so, at what revision does it start happening?
Re: Black screen [7372]
Same issue with [7380].
Re: Black screen [7372]
Did you compile 7380 yourself or did you use the pre-release build (which is a 7380 build of the release branch) I just uploaded?AndrewW wrote:Same issue with [7380].
Re: Black screen [7372]
Compiled.Vezzra wrote:Did you compile 7380 yourself or did you use the pre-release build (which is a 7380 build of the release branch) I just uploaded?AndrewW wrote:Same issue with [7380].
Re: Black screen [7372]
Does the pre-release build work on your system?AndrewW wrote:Compiled.
Re: Black screen [7372]
Well, not using a Mac or that other thing on here...Vezzra wrote:Does the pre-release build work on your system?
Compiled ones used to work fine...
Re: Black screen [7372]
In that case we need to find out which is the last revision that works on your system. So we can narrow down which changes cause the black screen.AndrewW wrote:Compiled ones used to work fine...
Maybe adrian_brohers bisecting approach can be helpful here.
Re: Black screen [7372]
Just tried [7000], same problem...Vezzra wrote:In that case we need to find out which is the last revision that works on your system. So we can narrow down which changes cause the black screen.
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Re: Black screen [7372]
I assume you've previously run versions later than SVN 7000 without problem? If so, the change is presumably not with FO code, but with something on your system.AndrewW wrote:Just tried [7000], same problem...
Re: Black screen [7372]
Not sure, hadn't messed with it for a bit (just been doing other things), compiling [6500] at the moment, if that has the same problem yup will figure it's something here.Geoff the Medio wrote:I assume you've previously run versions later than SVN 7000 without problem? If so, the change is presumably not with FO code, but with something on your system.
Re: Black screen [7372]
Same problem wtih [6500].
Updated everything on the computer (though was all either the same or newer versions then when it was working), wiped out the freeorion and .freeorion directories and tried from scratch [7386], same problem.
Updated everything on the computer (though was all either the same or newer versions then when it was working), wiped out the freeorion and .freeorion directories and tried from scratch [7386], same problem.
Re: Black screen [7372]
It's odd that when it starts up from a clean reinstall/compile, it appears to start in full screen mode even without using -f. Am I understanding that right?
Perhaps it's getting some wrong info (or misinterpreting info) from your card regarding supported resolution. I don't really see how/why that would change its startup resolution for windowed mode, but still, perhaps try
Also, could you check what version of Ogre you're using?
Perhaps it's getting some wrong info (or misinterpreting info) from your card regarding supported resolution. I don't really see how/why that would change its startup resolution for windowed mode, but still, perhaps try
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./freeorion --app-height-windowed 700 --app-width-windowed 1000
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Re: Black screen [7372]
That is correct.Dilvish wrote:It's odd that when it starts up from a clean reinstall/compile, it appears to start in full screen mode even without using -f. Am I understanding that right?
Still comes up full screen, move the mouse to a different monitor and it appears in a window, move it back and it is back to full screen. Note it has previously worked with this card.Dilvish wrote:Perhaps it's getting some wrong info (or misinterpreting info) from your card regarding supported resolution. I don't really see how/why that would change its startup resolution for windowed mode, but still, perhaps tryCode: Select all
./freeorion --app-height-windowed 700 --app-width-windowed 1000
1.8.1Dilvish wrote:Also, could you check what version of Ogre you're using?
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