black screen still???
 

hi all has the black screen on start up gone now with the update it playable now?? :confused:

Depends, my friend had the same thing. He can only run the game when he sets dx 9 in the conf but only get about 5fps. So he can even test the beta because as soon as the actual flying starts he gets black screen

I am currently not at home and tried the patch with my laptop. I have the same problem with my laptop (specs below).
The game starts just fine, but when I want to do the actual flying it switches back to the desktop with the game sound present in the background. I can press commands like open canopy without any problems (I HEAR that the plane opens the canopy, switches to exterior view and so forth) but as I said I am at the desktop :D There is a small black rectangle in the upper left of the desktop. When I press Escape I am back in the Main menu like normal.

Besides that I cant see planes/pilots/maps in the preparations screens. The parts in which the plane/pilot or the map should be seen its just black.

The black screen symptoms he is referring to, I believe, can be checked by going into options and then "pilot". Where the pilot would be there is only a black rectangle.

I installed the patch to see if this patch had fixed it. It hasn't. I could also only work with DX9, but got very low fps. I chalk it up to having an nVidia 330M, which is honestly pretty crappy.

One day I'll get a decent PC though :) One day!

My friend has a Nvidia GT 440 or something like that.