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Black Screen!

Postby mattiaset » Sun Nov 04, 2012 9:25 am

Hello, i've been getting a black screen every time i start the game.
I disabled my antivirus (avast!) and its firewall, but it still doesnt run.

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Postby koshensky » Sun Nov 04, 2012 1:26 pm

Try deleting your preferences file (in the directory above your saves folder), and it will start the game as if for the first time. It's possible that the game is trying to load either a very large prison, or a corrupted prison to begin with.

Does it actually crash (PrisonArchitect.exe is not responding) or does it just sit there in black?
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Postby mattiaset » Sun Nov 04, 2012 2:51 pm

I deleted the "Introversion" folder and it works, thank you!
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Postby unluckyice » Sun Nov 04, 2012 9:45 pm

Im having this problem but i dont have an introversion folder. I only have 4 files Main.dat, Prison architect.exe, SDL.dll, sounds.dat

Its been running fine all day but it crashed once and i can not play anymore
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Postby frenchfrog » Sun Nov 04, 2012 11:09 pm

unluckyice: Please put everything in one thread, check the answer there Im at a loss. Game crashed once, will not start again.
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Postby mattiaset » Mon Nov 05, 2012 3:25 pm

The Introversion folder is in C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\Introversion .
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Postby 06badoch98 » Wed May 08, 2013 6:48 pm

I deleted Introversion folder, but still have black screen :/ Any suggests?

debug.txt content:

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alpha-9 pc vanilla compiled 16:09:08, Apr 23 2013
Loading Preferences from C:\Users\Bartłomiej\AppData\Local/Introversion/Prison Architect/preferences.txt
Failed to find C:\Users\Bartłomiej\AppData\Local/Introversion/Prison Architect/preferences.txt
Suggested resolution : 1920 x 1080
OpenGL Vendor     : Intel
OpenGL Renderer   : Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000
OpenGL Version    : 4.0.0 - Build 9.17.10.2867
OpenGL GLSL       : 4.00 - Build 9.17.10.2867
Parsing archive main.dat...
   DONE
Parsing archive sounds.dat...
   DONE
Fonts loaded in 542ms
Invalid multi-byte UTF8 character: 0XFF
Loaded in 902 strings
Couldn't open unicode language file data/language/english-fullgame.txt
Initialising SDL Audio:

Introversion --> Prison Architect content
Image

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Postby VoiD88 » Wed May 08, 2013 10:35 pm

06badoch98 wrote:Sorry for my english, but it's not my native language. :D

Unfortunately, that's exactly the cause of your problem, the game does not yet recognize non-standard-latin-alphabet-letters like ł in the Windows Username. Sorry, but I'm afraid you need to either make a new windows user profile for Prison Architect that doesn't contain any special characters or wait for a fix (which could take a while).
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Postby 06badoch98 » Thu May 09, 2013 10:08 am

I created new user without special characters but game doesn't work :/
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still black schreen

Postby 11fastgamer » Sun Jul 23, 2017 5:01 pm

does anobody know whats wrong? i have an black schreen by the last update[debug log]=
(WHILE I DELETED INTROVERSION MAP)

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update-12b pc steam compiled 14:11:04, Jul  3 2017
Steam Breakpad Build Id: 3001202
Loading Preferences from C:\Users\My asus\AppData\Local/Introversion/Prison Architect/preferences.txt
Failed to find C:\Users\My asus\AppData\Local/Introversion/Prison Architect/preferences.txt
Suggested resolution : 1366 x 768
WindowManager attempting to create window at 1366x768 fullscreen
OpenGL Vendor     : Intel
OpenGL Renderer   : Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OpenGL Version    : 4.4.0 - Build 20.19.15.4549
OpenGL GLSL       : 4.40 - Build 20.19.15.4549
Windows 8.1 Per-monitor DPI reported: 96 x 96
Parsing archive main.dat...
   Parsing archive at path 'main.dat'
   DONE
Parsing archive sounds.dat...
   Parsing archive at path 'sounds.dat'
   DONE
Using Native Win32 Condition Variables
There are 0 mod sub directories
Compiled with libpng  libpng version 1.6.19 - November 12, 2015
(Running with version 1.6.29)
libpng error: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
OpenGL using glGenerateMipmaps to generate mipmaps.
Loading user sprite images for path: data/sprites.png
Failed to get sprites.png for data/sprites.png
Created FrameBuffer of size 64 x 64 in 543ms
Object spritebank composite took 2669ms
Warning: Loading a very high res image (2688x128)
Warning: mipmaps requested for non-power-of-two image (2688x128), will break on OpenGL ES
libpng error: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
[SteamWrapper] SteamAPI is not initialised.
[SteamWrapper] Failed to launch game through Steam.

(WHILE I NOT DELETED INTROVERSION MAP)

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 update-12b pc steam compiled 14:11:04, Jul  3 2017
Steam Breakpad Build Id: 3001202
Loading Preferences from C:\Users\My asus\AppData\Local/Introversion/Prison Architect/preferences.txt
BEGIN DataRegistry DUMP:
    Screen
    ScreenW [int] 1366
    ScreenH [int] 768
    ScreenWindowed [bool] 0
    ScreenHighDPI [bool] 0
    ScreenMultiSampled [bool] 0
    ScreenSuperSampled [bool] 0
    Sound
    SoundMixFrequency [int] 22050
    SoundVolume [int] 255
    SoundSwapStereo [bool] 0
    SoundEnableDsp [bool] 1
    RenderRooms [bool] 1
    RecentMap [string] A_1.prison
    FirstTime [bool] 0
    AutoSaveTimer [int] 0
    HardwareCompat [int] 0
    LastKnownVersion [string] update-11f-pc-steam
    FlashMobYear [int] 2017
    RegistrationShown [bool] 1
    TimeLapseCamera [int] 0
    TimeLapseInterval [int] 1
    TimeLapseFPSNumerator [int] 24
    TimeLapseFPSDenominator [int] 1
    TimeLapseQuality [int] 63
    Mods [string] Road Sensors
    LastSubCheck [int] 0
    UiScale [float] 1.00
    EnabledVBOs [bool] 0
    ForumId [int] 0
    SteamUser [bool] 1
    V2Gui [bool] 1
    ZoomToMouse [bool] 1
    OneClickRapsheet [bool] 1
    ClockType [int] 2
    DisableAnalytics [bool] 0
    MotdId [string]
    NameInGameHash [string]
    LoadCJKFonts [bool] 1
    Language [string] dutch
    TempInC [bool] 1
END DataRegistry DUMP:
WindowManager attempting to create window at 1366x768 fullscreen
OpenGL Vendor     : Intel
OpenGL Renderer   : Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OpenGL Version    : 4.4.0 - Build 20.19.15.4549
OpenGL GLSL       : 4.40 - Build 20.19.15.4549
Windows 8.1 Per-monitor DPI reported: 96 x 96
Parsing archive main.dat...
   Parsing archive at path 'main.dat'
   DONE
Parsing archive sounds.dat...
   Parsing archive at path 'sounds.dat'
   DONE
Using Native Win32 Condition Variables
There are 4 mod sub directories
Compiled with libpng  libpng version 1.6.19 - November 12, 2015
(Running with version 1.6.29)
libpng error: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
OpenGL using glGenerateMipmaps to generate mipmaps.
Loading user sprite images for path: C:\Users\My asus\AppData\Local/Introversion/Prison Architect/mods/485302724/data/sprites.png
Loading user sprite images for path: data/sprites.png
Failed to get sprites.png for data/sprites.png
PackRectangles (1 spaces) packing 1 rectangles
Packing:
WorldRenderer::LoadUserSpriteImages Compositing image C:\Users\My asus\AppData\Local/Introversion/Prison Architect/mods/485302724/data/sprites.png (320 x 64) to 2048, 1984
Created FrameBuffer of size 64 x 64 in 38ms
Object spritebank composite took 1417ms
Warning: Loading a very high res image (2688x128)
Warning: mipmaps requested for non-power-of-two image (2688x128), will break on OpenGL ES
libpng error: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
[SteamWrapper] SteamAPI is not initialised.
[SteamWrapper] Failed to launch game through Steam.

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