Screen goes black when loading NBA Live 2003 but sound works

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Joel Hamby

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Optiplex GX620 - Pentium 4 3GHz - 4GB RAM - Win 7 64 - ATI FireGL V3400

When I start the game the screen goes black but I still hear sound. I've fiddled w the game's properties and tried to "dumb it down" as much as possible w multiple variations. Also changed the window size options but nothing.

According to this http://forums.vgrequirements.info/showthread.php?t=934 I have what it takes to run this.

I've had this issue with Gens32 playing games Full Screen as well. It will play them in a window but would go and stay black(with sound) if I tried Full Screen.

I have DirectX 9 and 10 installed.

I'm hoping there's some stupid setting I'm missing so I can get to gaming. Thanks.
 
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The support for that program seems to end with Windows XP.

1) Find the .exe file that you run this from
2) Right click on the actual .exe file itself, not the shortcut.
3) The menu that appears will say Properties at the bottom. Click on that.
4) Once you have done that you should see a Compatibility tab on the panel that shows up. Click on it.
5) Click the Run this program in compatibilty mode for: Checkbox
6) The drop down menu below the checkbox will activate, and select Windows XP from that dropdown list.
7) Click the Apply button at the bottom of the page.
8 Run the game and see if that fixes the problem. If it does not, there may also be some other versions of windows listed that the game...
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The support for that program seems to end with Windows XP.

1) Find the .exe file that you run this from
2) Right click on the actual .exe file itself, not the shortcut.
3) The menu that appears will say Properties at the bottom. Click on that.
4) Once you have done that you should see a Compatibility tab on the panel that shows up. Click on it.
5) Click the Run this program in compatibilty mode for: Checkbox
6) The drop down menu below the checkbox will activate, and select Windows XP from that dropdown list.
7) Click the Apply button at the bottom of the page.
8 Run the game and see if that fixes the problem. If it does not, there may also be some other versions of windows listed that the game supported. The game says it supports:

Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

Sometimes, the Windows XP does not show up in the dropdown list in item 6 above. But it should always show up for programs that were released back then.

If none of the compatibility modes fix the problem, undo what you have done here.

One other thing. DirectX 9 and 10 and 11 seem to be very different animals than DirectX 8.1. I have run into several games that were DIrectX 8.1 compatible, that I could never get to working properly. We are talking about technologies that were in use back around the year 2000 and shortly afterwards. They may well have been removed from the latest operating systems.
 
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Thanks. Now I'm looking at newer releases and it seems that due to my spec limitations I'm kinda in a pickle. Older ones aren't supported and newer ones will be choppy/a headache. Time to MAME it up or just stick w Genesis games. (frowny face) Also, is there a topic or page you can point me to that would walk me through installing and configuring Retroarch(or something similar)? I can ask this question separately if you like so you can get some points.
 
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I had to ask Google was a "Retroarch" was... lol

I think a separate post under games would get you better results than what I could give you.

What you didn't say is did the compatibility mode solve the problems for you or not. Are you seeing the game properly now?

You are using some pretty old hardware there. Getting something newer would certainly help you in running things without these compatibility headaches. But I do understand we all have very different budgets.
 
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It didn't work. I tried many of the options in that drop down. Not one difference.(Except my TV changed screen resolution from 1080 to 480 on one of them.) Still sound but a black screen.
 
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