PLEASE HELP -- Monitors claim "no input" and then go to sleep at different points of the beginning of the game
EDIT: **Got it working. Not sure which thing did it.. I deleted old drivers manually..cleaned out the computer by full disassembling it and spraying everything with air..did a full rewiring..I dunno. Works now. Who knows. This. Game. Is. Amazing!
Quick preface: I've got BF4, a couple Civ games, and some various other games working perfectly fine. This is a computer that has gone unchanged for the last year without any problems. No new components, so do with that information what you will.
When I first started playing, the issue was only that as soon as I started the game (from steam or the exe or a shortcut) the monitors would immediately lose their video input. Nothing I attempted brought the video back so I was always forced to do a hard reboot. Far more interestingly tho, it would now start to randomly lose video signal even while the game wasn't being attempted. This went on for hours until I got so fed up I uninstalled everything in steam for this game.
Hours went by and there wasn't a single problem with my computer. Okay! Feelin lucky. I install again. This time it opens the game to the menu. SUCCESS!! Except obviously not or I wouldn't be here. This is a tale of woe. This is a tragedy.
So now I see the menu. I turn Every single settinOh what do you know the screens went blank again. Okay, reboot, start again, back in the menu, Nowww I turn all the settings on low. Save settings. Leave. Open game back up. Hit play game and make my 3 choices (difficulty, tutorial, saves) and it goes dark immediately. This is repeated several times. (The event log logs these as the kernel event, which I have 63 of now). Not only had I tried this over and over but sometimes I'd lose video while in normal computer stuff. Force reboot again. This goes on for an evening and a morning. Uninstall again.
A whole day goes by. Computer couldn't be happier. Blissfully ignorant of the torture its endured, like a patient out of surgery.
Install again. I'm shortening the rest. The next wave of success was getting the game to play the pre-rendered video before failing again every single time it tried to switch to the loading circles in the bottom right before the 50 shades of lobster scene. This failed repeatedly until I did another uninistall and reinstall (again, always through steam. That's where I bought it. I'm not against piracy, but I've worked on a game title for PS4 and like to support folks. *hides pirate flags off screen*). Anyway, the next time I try this cycle again, I made it to just after the naked lady butt complains about the time of day, remarkably stoic about the loss of her sex lobster.
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That's all I know. The most unsettling thing is how it can make my computer sick even while the game isn't playing. I'm actually impressed. I have updated all drivers except for bios stuff. I set both the game and steam to always be admin. I also verified the "Verify integrity of game cache" in steam.
It's weirdly consistent that each time I do a full uninstall and reinstall I get another minute or two further into the game. So I could just repeat this until I've played the whole game I guess. 2 minutes of gameplay per 40minute install time is not that bad. haha.
Should I just get a return (actually, is that even possible on steam?) and go pick it up for PS4?
EDIT: **Got it working. Not sure which thing did it.. I deleted old drivers manually..cleaned out the computer by full disassembling it and spraying everything with air..did a full rewiring..I dunno. Works now. Who knows. This. Game. Is. Amazing!
Quick preface: I've got BF4, a couple Civ games, and some various other games working perfectly fine. This is a computer that has gone unchanged for the last year without any problems. No new components, so do with that information what you will.
When I first started playing, the issue was only that as soon as I started the game (from steam or the exe or a shortcut) the monitors would immediately lose their video input. Nothing I attempted brought the video back so I was always forced to do a hard reboot. Far more interestingly tho, it would now start to randomly lose video signal even while the game wasn't being attempted. This went on for hours until I got so fed up I uninstalled everything in steam for this game.
Hours went by and there wasn't a single problem with my computer. Okay! Feelin lucky. I install again. This time it opens the game to the menu. SUCCESS!! Except obviously not or I wouldn't be here. This is a tale of woe. This is a tragedy.
So now I see the menu. I turn Every single settinOh what do you know the screens went blank again. Okay, reboot, start again, back in the menu, Nowww I turn all the settings on low. Save settings. Leave. Open game back up. Hit play game and make my 3 choices (difficulty, tutorial, saves) and it goes dark immediately. This is repeated several times. (The event log logs these as the kernel event, which I have 63 of now). Not only had I tried this over and over but sometimes I'd lose video while in normal computer stuff. Force reboot again. This goes on for an evening and a morning. Uninstall again.
A whole day goes by. Computer couldn't be happier. Blissfully ignorant of the torture its endured, like a patient out of surgery.
Install again. I'm shortening the rest. The next wave of success was getting the game to play the pre-rendered video before failing again every single time it tried to switch to the loading circles in the bottom right before the 50 shades of lobster scene. This failed repeatedly until I did another uninistall and reinstall (again, always through steam. That's where I bought it. I'm not against piracy, but I've worked on a game title for PS4 and like to support folks. *hides pirate flags off screen*). Anyway, the next time I try this cycle again, I made it to just after the naked lady butt complains about the time of day, remarkably stoic about the loss of her sex lobster.
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That's all I know. The most unsettling thing is how it can make my computer sick even while the game isn't playing. I'm actually impressed. I have updated all drivers except for bios stuff. I set both the game and steam to always be admin. I also verified the "Verify integrity of game cache" in steam.
It's weirdly consistent that each time I do a full uninstall and reinstall I get another minute or two further into the game. So I could just repeat this until I've played the whole game I guess. 2 minutes of gameplay per 40minute install time is not that bad. haha.
Should I just get a return (actually, is that even possible on steam?) and go pick it up for PS4?
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