Having problems starting game

[mothman]

When starting in windowed mode you may still have to perform a CTRL ALT DEL in order to go into the task manager, from their select the running Kings Bounty task and select Switch to.....

[Zogun]

Awesome, thanks for the reply. Gonna try it out right away

[Zogun]

I think I realised what caused the problem. By the time I installed the game and ran it for the first time, I had extended my desktop to my 37 inch TV, this caused the game to detect my screen settings as 1920 * 1080 in resolution, which made it impossible to for my regular monitor to actually show something.

So if anyone else has the same problem, check the "game.ini" in the "Data" map, edit "setf ~screenresoultionx" and "setf ~screenresoultiony" to the appropriate settings for your monitor, and if needed edit "setf ~windowed" to 1 instead of 0 to run the game in windowed mode.

Originally Posted by mothman

When starting in windowed mode you may still have to perform a CTRL ALT DEL in order to go into the task manager, from their select the running Kings Bounty task and select Switch to.....

I had to do this as well, and it worked for me.

Thanks for all the help and I hope this will help ppl in the future.

Cheers!

Edit: After starting the game in windowed mode and entering the correct resolution in the settings I no longer have to run the game in windowed mode!

[Durf81]

I just bought the game today, it installed just fine. I try to run the game and i can hear the cd running, it flashes a black screen like it wants to bring the game up, and then nothing ever happens. I tried the suggestions in this post but nothing has worked

Please give any advice you have!

~Durf

[iron mike]

Hello

I got the same problem, every time I start the game everything goes well till the beginning of the playing, the stupid monitor shuts down then. How can i fix this? please some1 give me a proper solution step by step if there is any


please some1!!!1

[mothman]

Gentlemen,

I will be glad to be of any assistance. Here are a few suggestions that I would have to ask each of you:

1. Depending upon your graphics card, (i.e. ATI, Nvidia) ensure that you are running the latest driver. When in doubt then please check.

2. Ensure that you have no High Priorty Updates and that your DirectX, Framework levels are optimum. To check open your IE Browser and select TOOLS > Windows Update > Wait for the analysis to complete and then verify that their are no High Priorty updates.

3. Turn off other third party tasks that are not necessary. Check your system tray and close any tasks.

4. Next perform the following command in your Start > RUN window. Command is "DXDiag" without the quotes. Once the window displays verify in each tab that your DirectX contains no errors. You may want to SAVE this info to a text file and post it to this site in order for further assistance.

After performing the above then here are a few questions for you:

Did you modify the game config file as instructed? Is the Windowed mode enabled?

When you launch the game do you see the task running in the Task Manager? Did you select the task and then click on the Switch To button? What happens?

[iron mike]

Originally Posted by mothman

Gentlemen,

I will be glad to be of any assistance. Here are a few suggestions that I would have to ask each of you:

1. Depending upon your graphics card, (i.e. ATI, Nvidia) ensure that you are running the latest driver. When in doubt then please check.

2. Ensure that you have no High Priorty Updates and that your DirectX, Framework levels are optimum. To check open your IE Browser and select TOOLS > Windows Update > Wait for the analysis to complete and then verify that their are no High Priorty updates.

3. Turn off other third party tasks that are not necessary. Check your system tray and close any tasks.

4. Next perform the following command in your Start > RUN window. Command is "DXDiag" without the quotes. Once the window displays verify in each tab that your DirectX contains no errors. You may want to SAVE this info to a text file and post it to this site in order for further assistance.

After performing the above then here are a few questions for you:

Did you modify the game config file as instructed? Is the Windowed mode enabled?

When you launch the game do you see the task running in the Task Manager? Did you select the task and then click on the Switch To button? What happens?

i dont know man.... I did updated directx and changed windowed thing to 1, nothing new happend, still same problem.

its realy odd shit, i mean why the hell does the freaking monitor have to shut down xD. I actually get a picture for a few secs. then monitor shutdowns while i can hear sound. then i need to press alt + f4 to take control over the pc, but after that, the pc gets like 3 times slower, then i need to restart it. i've done this like 5-7 times now trying to fix the shit lol. its probably because i use stupid windows vista, thats all i had when i rebooted my stupid pc.