NS2 black screen. Obby's nuke and all other guides not working.
blackopsman9999
Join Date: 2013-10-12 Member: 188669Members
Join Date: 2013-10-12 Member: 188669Members
Hello, I bought NS2 a while ago and it was wonderful fun, now I tried to play it again, black screen. On launch it launches like a normal game and then the steam shift tab reminder for steam pops up, a few seconds later it starts glitching out and bugging in and out. If you shift tab you can open the window, but closing it causes the window to bug as well. I have tried deleting the files, corrupt check, turning off steam cloud, dxsetup, and even obby's nuke guide. I still have the exact same. I have left it alone for an hour without it loading, and cannot submit the bug report if I switch to it the window pops up but is invisible and covers the button, I have been having to ctrl alt delete and start task manager then end the procress. Some help would be wonderful, I liked this game and want to play it again. Also, I have nuked the game, still black screen.
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Two things i would do: first i would remove the directory at %appdata%/Natural Selection 2/Workshop
After you have done that verify your install using steam. (right click ns2 ->properties ->local files ->verify)
After that it will hopefully be smooth sailing
Edit: SPELLING. oh god, spelling.
Have seen this cause issues in the past
Look for any application that affects games/other applications and see if it's interfering with ns2 at all.
Also, try to launch NS2 directly from your steam folder rather than through steam.
As a side note, you may want to try changing download servers on steam when you reinstall NS2
And change it to whatever you are not using atm. <device>D3D9</device><device>D3D11</device> or <device>OpenGL</device> (case sensitive)
That might fix it
However, if it does not can you run the game with -verbose set in steam->library->ns2->properties ->set launch options. and then post your log post 258.
Would be super good.
I am gonna swap the drives again.
You start up the game, it notices you have requested a mod to run at start up. The mod does not exist on the workshop. The game tries to load some things, fails "Wicked Bad"(tm) and gets confused and wanders off.
What is probably happening is that one of the mods you are using is puled from the workshop for whatever reason.
specifically you are running these mods at startup:
<mods> <active_mods>820fba1 5fd7a38</active_mods> </mods>go to:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\73756278\4920\remote and edit the above lines to look like this with note pad, should be around line 139:
<mods> <active_mods></active_mods> </mods>should fix everything.
"Error: Couldn't load 'renderer/Drawer.shader' (file not found)
Error: Couldn't load 'game_setup.xml'
Error: Attempting to set watchdog callback on NULL Lua state"
Sounds like there's file access issues going on.
Did you verify integrity of cache after deleting those files?
(also, thanks for posting your fix!)