Right, so... I just rebought this amazing game after a few years. I tried playing on my poor man's refurbished PC integrated graphics, and the game surprisingly did play (albeit with severe FPS issues). I was even able to complete the Skirmish match. However, after that game I decided to chip out for a brand new RX 460 to improve FPS, and from there the game isn't playing.
Every time I start up another Skirmish match, the game will load in normally. I click Start, the lights go up, and I go to select my build squad. Then, the game decides to blackscreen before my first building is even constructed, returning a few moments later with the last available ingame cursor and music only. No models. No map. No voices, engines or environment noises. Just the cursor moving around the screen as I shake my mouse angrily. I am forced to start Task Manager, end the process, rinse and repeat.
Sometimes, the game will run great before quitting. Smooth FPS, smooth camera panning, smooth animations... Then the black screen hits, and everything grinds to a halt. I have hope that there is a solution somewhere because the game does run smoothly, if only for a few precious moments. After something like 1-2 minutes something acts up, and the game can no longer run because of it. It has to be something after the Skirmish battle is loaded and running.
(Maybe it's a DirectX issue? 460 shipped with Dx12, I'd prefer Dx9 for CoH (Recommended version to me, Dx version is entirely negotiable so long as the game can run), and computer says I have Dx11 installed even though I've taken steps to uninstall it and replace it with Dx9. This is pure speculation, I'm a massive computer newbie).
Any help would be appreciated. I'm not too computer savvy, so if you could offer a solution in terms that a toddler could understand I'd be grateful. I'll try to give you any system specs you ask for.
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Here are two pastebins that may help: a dxdiag.txt file of my computer and a warnings.txt file that CoH generated in the game file.
(http://pastebin.ca/3708274) - This is the dxdiag of my computer. If you need any other system info, I'll try to scrounge it up.
(http://pastebin.ca/3708275) - This is the warnings.txt file that CoH gave me. It's worth pointing out that all of the main menu screens work marvelously, the game starts to act up once I begin a battle. So, the issue probably arises after the game launches. In the warnings.txt file, the game launches the battle around line 584 in the pastebin. Or use Ctrl+F and search 'GAME -- *** Beginning mission 6p_refinery (1 Humans, 1 Computers) ***' for quick results.
Thank you all for looking, and thank you even more if you can help me solve this issue. I'll attempt anything and everything you lot can pitch to me.
(Oh, and bonus points for a step-by-step solution.)
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Update:
I ran a test with GPU-Z, and several graphs report maxing out to 100% usage when the game loaded into a Skirmish match.
-GPU Core clock
-GPU Mem. clock
-GPU Load
(Supposed to be image of graphs)
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I know CoH is a rather old game, and RX 460 is pretty new, but somebody's gotta have a clue what's going on. It can't be impossible to figure out a solution for this.
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Hello?
Every time I start up another Skirmish match, the game will load in normally. I click Start, the lights go up, and I go to select my build squad. Then, the game decides to blackscreen before my first building is even constructed, returning a few moments later with the last available ingame cursor and music only. No models. No map. No voices, engines or environment noises. Just the cursor moving around the screen as I shake my mouse angrily. I am forced to start Task Manager, end the process, rinse and repeat.
Sometimes, the game will run great before quitting. Smooth FPS, smooth camera panning, smooth animations... Then the black screen hits, and everything grinds to a halt. I have hope that there is a solution somewhere because the game does run smoothly, if only for a few precious moments. After something like 1-2 minutes something acts up, and the game can no longer run because of it. It has to be something after the Skirmish battle is loaded and running.
(Maybe it's a DirectX issue? 460 shipped with Dx12, I'd prefer Dx9 for CoH (Recommended version to me, Dx version is entirely negotiable so long as the game can run), and computer says I have Dx11 installed even though I've taken steps to uninstall it and replace it with Dx9. This is pure speculation, I'm a massive computer newbie).
Any help would be appreciated. I'm not too computer savvy, so if you could offer a solution in terms that a toddler could understand I'd be grateful. I'll try to give you any system specs you ask for.
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Here are two pastebins that may help: a dxdiag.txt file of my computer and a warnings.txt file that CoH generated in the game file.
(http://pastebin.ca/3708274) - This is the dxdiag of my computer. If you need any other system info, I'll try to scrounge it up.
(http://pastebin.ca/3708275) - This is the warnings.txt file that CoH gave me. It's worth pointing out that all of the main menu screens work marvelously, the game starts to act up once I begin a battle. So, the issue probably arises after the game launches. In the warnings.txt file, the game launches the battle around line 584 in the pastebin. Or use Ctrl+F and search 'GAME -- *** Beginning mission 6p_refinery (1 Humans, 1 Computers) ***' for quick results.
Thank you all for looking, and thank you even more if you can help me solve this issue. I'll attempt anything and everything you lot can pitch to me.
(Oh, and bonus points for a step-by-step solution.)
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Update:
I ran a test with GPU-Z, and several graphs report maxing out to 100% usage when the game loaded into a Skirmish match.
-GPU Core clock
-GPU Mem. clock
-GPU Load
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I know CoH is a rather old game, and RX 460 is pretty new, but somebody's gotta have a clue what's going on. It can't be impossible to figure out a solution for this.
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