Black Screen In-game

[VO101_Tom]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

guys, I'm doing this installation for a friend of mine on his iMac with a Windows 7 64bit partition...

Hi. The problem is that the video signal is delayed by more than 2 seconds at start (with weaker cards), and the Win turn off the driver (2 sec Win default). This registry setting (thanks to easyhomewin) increases this delay to 12 seconds. I have no idea how the MAC default, and i have no clue how to increase. Maybe you should ask some MAC forums.

Explanation of the PC reg key:

TdrDelay

Specifies the number of seconds that the GPU can delay the 
preempt request from the GPU scheduler. This is effectively 
the timeout threshold. The default value is 2 seconds. 

KeyPath   : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers
KeyValue  : TdrDelay
ValueType : REG_DWORD
ValueData : Number of seconds to delay. 2 seconds is the default value.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by VO101_Tom

Hi. The problem is that the video signal is delayed by more than 2 seconds at start (with weaker cards), and the Win turn off the driver (2 sec Win default). This registry setting (thanks to easyhomewin) increases this delay to 12 seconds. I have no idea how the MAC default, and i have no clue how to increase. Maybe you should ask some MAC forums.

Explanation of the PC reg key:

TdrDelay

Specifies the number of seconds that the GPU can delay the 
preempt request from the GPU scheduler. This is effectively 
the timeout threshold. The default value is 2 seconds. 

KeyPath   : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers
KeyValue  : TdrDelay
ValueType : REG_DWORD
ValueData : Number of seconds to delay. 2 seconds is the default value.

thank for this, I'll give it another shot later. It's defo not a Mac issue per se though, since the hardware is Apple of course (with Intel processor), but is running Windows.

[VO101_Tom]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

... the hardware is Apple of course (with Intel processor), but is running Windows.

I understand. Then no problem, the procedure is the same, what has been written (#37).

[HR_Naglfar]

I've had this problem with a GeForce 9600GT. I spent a lot of time editing windows registry trying even 120 seconds delays without solving the problem.

So finally I just deactivated this fantastic TDR thing. If someone still have this problem even with greater delays, just create a new DWord in the same location (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\GraphicsDrivers), named TdrLevel, with a value of 0. And don't forget to reboot your PC before trying if it worked.

PS: It should work with just that, but for some reason I had to put this DWord also in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Gr aphicsDrivers, and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\Gr aphicsDrivers, and finally it worked.

[DroopSnoot]

Did you use a 64bit Dword or a 32bit for those ControlSets?

[HR_Naglfar]

Originally Posted by DroopSnoot

Did you use a 64bit Dword or a 32bit for those ControlSets?

32 bits DWord.

I think it has nothing to do with 64 or 32 bits OS, I have W7 32 bits but still can create 64 bits QWord in the registry. Also here doesn't say anything about using QWord in 64 bits OS: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=vs.85%29.aspx

Anyway if it doesn't work with DWord you can try using QWord, I don't think it will break anything

[DroopSnoot]

Well it worked for him too so thank-you but sadly his fps is 2 so its impossible to play