Thanks for your help, everyone, but at this point, I'm just giving up. Honestly, I bought the Humble Bundle to re-experience Darwinia, a game I really enjoyed, but my time is more important than trying to troubleshoot a game I only paid $5 for. I am going to try the other games I got through the Int...

Hi, Tom.

I'd already tried changing screen resolution to the lowest possible. It didn't help.

I tried adding the lines you suggested to the preferences file, and it didn't help.

The version on my Mac was from three or four years ago-- I paid full price for the Mac version.

Tried all 3. No change. I'm thinking it's something beyond preference settings.

Thanks for your help, NeatNit!

Any advice from anyone else?

At this point, I'm really glad I hadn't paid full price...

--Hal

Thanks. preferences.txt: ServerAddress = 127.0.0.1 BypassNetwork = 1 IAmAServer = 1 TextLanguage = english TextSpeed = 15 HelpEnabled = 1 SoundLibrary = dsound SoundMixFreq = 22050 SoundMasterVolume = 255 SoundChannels = 32 SoundHW3D = 0 SoundSwapStereo = 0 SoundMemoryUsage = 1 SoundBufferSize = 512...

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I don't see a "blackbox.txt" file in my Darwinia folder, and a file search does not reveal one.

As subject says. I added this line to the preferences.txt, and it did not help. The graphics card driver was already up-to-date. Any more suggestions? The kicker is that it runs absolutely fine on my six-year-old MacBook (which I am going to have to return to the equipment pool soon), but not on my ...

Thanks for the tip, but there is no "RenderLandscapeMode" line in my preferences.txt file. There is a "RenderLandscapeDetail" line, but it's already at 0. I think I'd already changed this mode from the preferences menu from within Darwinia. I changed everything to the lowest sett...

Just downloaded Darwinia from the Humble Bundle. The intro video loads with no trouble, but when the world loads, Darwinia crashes as soon as you click an area to enter. (Currently, only "Garden" is accessible.) I then get a black screen, with the error message "Darwinia has stopped w...