Game was working and now it's just black screen

[adi518]

At first was working great, could press Escape and skip all videos, play the game etc'. Now though...Escape doesn't work and after all videos are done it's stuck with a black screen doing nothing. :\

EDIT: I removed all videos because they were annoying anyway, but it's getting to main menu with a blackscreen. :\

Spec:

i5 2500, AMD 5850 (latest drivers), Win 7 64Bit

please help :\

[sadzebra]

I am seeing the exact same behavior with an nvidia 590gtx.

I have noticed that sometimes I am able to skip one of the videos before it hangs, but that is about it. I've tried all the usual suspects: removing the directory that it creates in Documents\My Games\PP3, removing the game entirely and re-downloading, removing any references I could find in the registry, etc.

It did actually start twice for me: once right after install yesterday morning and then again this morning after several attempts it started once. Unfortunately it then stalled with a "Checking Serial Key" message when I went to start a multiplayer game.

Disabling the intro movies by deleting the .bik or editing Documents\My Games\PP3\PP3WorkGame\Config\PP3WorkEngine.ini and set bForceNoMovies=TRUE and the game then seems to load the menu screen and hang.

[sadzebra]

The game does create a log when it runs in the user dir at PP3/Logs/Launch.log.

Here is what it shows just before the end when it hangs at startup:

[0006.68] Log: Game class is 'PP3WorkGameInfo'
[0006.83] Log: Primary PhysX scene will be in software.
[0006.83] Log: Creating Primary PhysX Scene.
[0006.83] Log: Bringing World StartMap.TheWorld up for play (0) at 2011.10.01-17.05.41
[0006.83] Log: Bringing up level for play took: 0.143200
[0006.83] Log: UPP3ForceFeedbackManager: Init started
[0006.83] Log: UPP3ForceFeedbackManager: failed: UseJoy = false
[0006.83] Log: ########### Finished loading level: 0

And from the time that it launched this morning it continues after that:

[0008.57] Log: ########### Finished loading level: 1.269141 seconds
[0008.57] DevUI: Received map loaded notification. Reinitializing widget input aliases.
[0028.84] Log: [IServer] Found UPnP Gateway device:
[0028.84] Log: [IServer] Device description: Internet Gateway Device.
[0028.84] Log: [IServer] Device display name: DD-WRT Router (192.168.1.1).
[0028.84] Log: [IServer] Manufacturer name: NewMedia-NET GmbH.
[0028.84] Log: [IServer] Model name: Linksys WRT54G/GL/GS.
[0028.84] Log: [IServer] Root device: Yes.
[0028.84] Log: Initializing Engine Completed
[0028.84] Input: Received released event for key LeftMouseButton but key was never pressed (PP3WorkPlayerInput StartMap.TheWorldersistentLevel.PP3WorkPlayerCon troller_0.PP3WorkPlayerInput_0)
[0028.86] Log: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Initial startup: 28.86s <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

There is one other difference. This is the same in all the logs where it hangs at startup:

[0006.61] Log: LoadMap: StartMap?Name=Player?Team=255?CarID=CARPROTO002
[0006.62] DevMemory: Virtual memory allocation size: 202.68 MByte (212525056 Bytes)

And this is from the log when it worked and did not hang at startup:

[0007.30] Log: LoadMap: StartMap?Name=Player?Team=255
[0007.33] DevMemory: Virtual memory allocation size: 302.34 MByte (317026304 Bytes)

[adi518]

Sounds like you're having exactly same thing lol... I bet it's something in the profile save file, it might got corrupted somehow.

I hope this company reacts fast with a patch or it will draw away many potential customers.

[steveperrywho]

i resolved this exact issue for myself by disconnecting my internet before running the game. it now starts as long as my internet is disconnected

[adi518]

didn't think of that. I'll block it in the windows firewall.

[adi518]

looks like you were right. It does work when I disable my network adapter. Obviously tho, it's not a good solution. Blocking it in the firewall didn't do the trick either.

[ShawnK116]

Originally Posted by sadzebra

I am seeing the exact same behavior with an nvidia 590gtx.

I have noticed that sometimes I am able to skip one of the videos before it hangs, but that is about it. I've tried all the usual suspects: removing the directory that it creates in Documents\My Games\PP3, removing the game entirely and re-downloading, removing any references I could find in the registry, etc.

It did actually start twice for me: once right after install yesterday morning and then again this morning after several attempts it started once. Unfortunately it then stalled with a "Checking Serial Key" message when I went to start a multiplayer game.

Disabling the intro movies by deleting the .bik or editing Documents\My Games\PP3\PP3WorkGame\Config\PP3WorkEngine.ini and set bForceNoMovies=TRUE and the game then seems to load the menu screen and hang.

this happened to me a few times but for me before i found the fix i would restart my game and be fine...though only play LAN cause not a single MP server ever found

any ways when u try and start lan if it freezes on the serial check hit F1 (opens the little ? help guide) then hit enter and now your bk on the screen for setting up your server and no longer stuck on the checking serial number..
SO WHY ISN'T THERE A OPTION TO TYPE IN THE SERIAL so you don't have to deal with the whole serial check AND the annoying steam message pop up ..yes i know you can stop the steam message but none the less it should be a ONE TIME THING, you run the game first time, put in the serial and be done with it DERPA DERPA!!!