Black Screen while logging in

[Kappa00p2p]

On my sister's laptop, she puts in her account name and password then presses start. The screen turns black and stays black until she gets disconnected. I tried with my account and the same thing happens. Playing offline works.

Specs:
Mobile AMD Sempron Processor 2800+ @ 1.6 GHz
224MB RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress 200

Log:

Created DirectDraw object
Initialized Direct3D7
Initialized DirectDraw
Graphic Capabilities:
Drawing of alpha blended textures: true
Textures with non-power-of-2 size: true
3D Textures with non-power-of-2 size: false
2D during 3D scene: true
Use 32 bit alpha: true
Initialized Direct3D7
Graal has been activated!
Loading tile definitions for server Login
Connecting to the game server...
Done.

I did install the latest drivers after this happened and nothing changed.

[Angel_Light]

It happened to me yesterday when I was playing with gui controls and I had to reconnect. The screen just came up black. so I closed out all my programs made graal was 'high priority' then RAM flushed my comp. When I turned it back on, I stil got a black screen for 15 secs then it showed the playerlist. :o

[Admins]

Celarion: update the graphics card driver and try again please.
About black login screen: sometimes the login script is updated, but it's only a few bytes so it should not take more than a few seconds to update. I have no idea why it wouldn't show up. Eventually delete your weblevels folder and FILENAMECACHE.txt and try again. Also tell me if you have VIP (new interface).

[Celarion]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Celarion: update the graphics card driver and try again please.
About black login screen: sometimes the login script is updated, but it's only a few bytes so it should not take more than a few seconds to update. I have no idea why it wouldn't show up. Eventually delete your weblevels folder and FILENAMECACHE.txt and try again. Also tell me if you have VIP (new interface).

Yeah, I'm VIP. I'll try updating her awesome S3 Trio and connecting at mum's again next time I'm over there. =___=

The interesting thing is that the first time I tried it, it worked perfectly. Every time thereafter - even after reinstalls and resets - failure.

*shrugs*

[Kappa00p2p]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Celarion: update the graphics card driver and try again please.
About black login screen: sometimes the login script is updated, but it's only a few bytes so it should not take more than a few seconds to update. I have no idea why it wouldn't show up. Eventually delete your weblevels folder and FILENAMECACHE.txt and try again. Also tell me if you have VIP (new interface).

I tried this and i could not find any weblevels folder but i deleted filenamecache.txt and nothing changed from before. I do not have VIP.

[CheeToS2]

Hmm, I seem to be having this problem too, but only with Windows Vista (Win2k is ok). It started when 4.1 was released.

My video card is a nVidia 6600GT. I see the startup screen fine & offline mode works, but I only get a black screen after clicking start. Everything looks ok in the F2 log. TCPView shows that a connection is being made to the serverlist. I can't open any GUI windows (like the F5 window). I can open the playerlist, but no servers are shown in the Servers tab. I also tried deleting the filename cache & weblevels, but it didn't help.

Edit: It didn't download the new gui images. I tried putting them in (& deleting the cache), but that didn't help either.

Edit2: It doesn't seem to be downloading anything at all. The weblevels directory isn't being recreated.

Edit3: The socket closes when I put in an incorrect password, but I don't get a disconnection message on the client.

[Admins]

Ok Please test temp/Graal4.exe from the debug server to see if that version is fixing the problem

[CheeToS2]

Yay, it works

[KuJi]

What was up with the "cant pm"?

[CheeToS2]

Originally Posted by KuJi

What was up with the "cant pm"?

Graal will freeze under Vista if I open a PM window or history. Stefan thinks it is from the RichEdit control he's using.