• Black Screen upon launching Steam version of STALKER: Clear Sky, no intro videos, no menu
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Today I installed Clear Sky on Steam. Once the install was done I launched the game without trouble. Once in the main menu I went to the video options and set the game's resolution and changed some visual settings in the advanced section (though I can't remember which ones specifically, just that the DirectX 10.1 shaders was among them). After applying these changes a message saying that some of the changes would be applied the next time the game was launched appeared. So I clicked on return to windows and started the game again, only to be greeted with a black screen. I waited a while but the intro videos never played. Never got to the menu either. Starting the task manager through ctrl+alt+del revealed an error message that read "xrengine.exe has stopped working" and something about Windows notifying me when a solution is available. Google did not yield any explicit solutions to my problem though I did find out there is a file called user.ltx that stores all of the game's settings. I tried editing the file with notepad to disable the DirectX 10.1 shaders (which is the only setting I'm sure I changed, not to mention the only one I recognized in the file) but I still got the black screen. Since that didn't work I deleted Clear Sky's local content on Steam and re-installed it but still I get the same black screen, despite the fact that checking the user.ltx reveals that all the settings are set to their defaults. Adding xrengine.exe to Vista's Data Execution Prevention didn't help either. By the way, this is what the Clear Sky log file reads after every attempt to run the game: [code]full path: c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\stalker clear sky\bin\ redirecting CreateDXGIFactory redirecting CreateDXGIFactory redirecting IDXGIFactory->CreateSwapChain initialising shader environment D3DX10CreateEffectFromFile failed try to use "c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\stalker clear sky" for shader files[/code] My specs: OS: Vista Home Premium 64 bit. RAM: 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 CPU: AMD Phenom (first-gen) Quad-core 9950 @ 2.61GHz GPU: 2GB ATI Radeon HD4870x2 Motherboard: ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe Storage: 1TB 7200RPM HDD (Seagate Barracuda 7200.12) Any and all help with this would be very much appreciated.
Try running the DirectX web installer, then run the game [url]http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=35[/url]
[quote=DirectX Installer]DirectX setup has determined that a newer or equivalent version of DirectX has been installed already. No installation is necessary.[/quote] Aw, man.
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