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Offline fishfood

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Soldat 1.4 blank grey playing screen
« on: April 29, 2007, 01:30:06 pm »
I'm Fish's brother, and my soldat is messed up.
My soldat starts up fine, but when I try to join a server my screen goes blank and freezes.  The only way to exit the game is ALT-F4.  Also, I've got an ATI XPERT 98 AGP 2X video card and 256MB of RAM. I have a Pentium II processor.  I've tried all the other posted solutions and none have worked so far.

Any help would be appreciated!

Offline Raithah

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Re: Soldat 1.4 blank grey playing screen
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2007, 02:23:22 pm »
Heh. Simple problem you have there; go into the Config.exe, switch to the 'more' tab, and pop the button that has something-to-do-with 'ATI'. It should be rather large and on the left hand side of the message window :D.

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Re: Soldat 1.4 blank grey playing screen
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2007, 02:30:34 pm »
That's for if the screen goes blank during a bonus.  This is everytime you try to play.
Doesn't fix the problem.  :(
Thanks though.

Offline Tek+Lok

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Re: Soldat 1.4 blank grey playing screen
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2007, 03:03:24 pm »
you try installing directx?

Offline Raithah

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Re: Soldat 1.4 blank grey playing screen
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2007, 03:05:36 pm »
But did you try it ? Like I've said in other posts, computers are quite odd occasionaly, and things you don't think will fix a problem will end up doing it. But yeah, run dxdiag (after hitting Start-Run or the Windows key+R) and figure out if you have the latest 'n greatest Direct X.

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Re: Soldat 1.4 blank grey playing screen
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2007, 04:31:59 pm »
only way around this i know of is to (in the setup):
1. turn on video compatibility
2. Change resolution to 640x480
3. turn off software video
4. 16 bit

let us know how this goes.

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Re: Soldat 1.4 blank grey playing screen
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2007, 04:50:39 pm »
Turning off force software helped.  :)
Thanks!

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Re: Soldat 1.4 blank grey playing screen
« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2007, 09:53:11 pm »
no worries mate, glad to help you

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