Black screen

[hussar11]

Have downloaded and installed SB Pro PE 3.02 after uninstalling 2.654.

Now whenever I try to run SB, I get a black screen for a view.

Can hear engines running and radio voices, but can only see when looking out of gunners primary sight with thermal running.

Have run both gunnery ranges, instant action, and some old senarios.

My system

HP Pavilion a1440n

Windows XP Sp3

Pentium ® D CPU 2.80 GHZ

3.50 GB Ram (4 GB installed)

NVIDIA GeoForce 7300 LE (updated drivers)

DirectX 9.0c

Am I missing something from the textures folder?

HELP PLEASE!!!

System seems to be crashing whenever I try to run one of the accompaning senerios

Edited September 24, 2013 by hussar11
forgot second problem

[Ssnake]

Are you running in Windowed mode?

(Try Alt+W)

[Ssnake]

Also, this.

[Sean]

I would try loading the low graphics options file. See the thread with that title created by dunc.

[hussar11]

Tried the windowed screen, no luck.

overwrote the options dat, nothing

dropped all the graphics settings to zero or one, HAVE A PICTURE.

Movement is a bit jerky, responce time to commands very slow.

Will have to either

A. get a new graphics card, or

B. New system

[Volcano]

Yeah, your CPU sounds pretty old (almost 10 years). It is probably a combination of CPU and GPU.

[dunc]

overwrote the options dat, nothing

dropped all the graphics settings to zero or one, HAVE A PICTURE.

Just FYI, "dropping all GFX settings to zero" is exactly what overwriting the options.dat file will do.

As this did not have an effect for you, I assume you only overwrote the "<SB_Install_Dir>\misc" file, and not the already existing "%APPDATA%\eSim Games\Steel Beasts\options" file. If the latter is already existing, SB will ignore the default file.

Just mentioning this for clarification.