Big black screen at start-up

[PaladinWolf]

When I run FOT the games seems to load for a few seconds but just stays at a big black screen. I can't alt-tab, ctrl-alt-del or anything. Anyone know how to fix this?

 

[Guest]

I believe this is a known bug caused by some sound incompatibilities or some such. Probably best to wait for the patch, which should be out this week, we all hope. Or maybe next. Or maybe in a month or two. (Damn Interplay for not being more forthcoming on such information!)

 

[Grifman]

Yeah, I had it also. Go to your DirectX folder and doubleclick on DXDiag. Then go to the Sound tab and look for the Hardware Sound Acceleration Level. Whatever it currently is, set it all the way to the opposite. I've seen people post that setting it to High fixes the problem and setting it to Off fixes the problem. In my case it was off, and setting it to High did the job. If this doesn't work, post here, I've got another possible solution.

And this is a listed fix of the patch.

Grifman

 

[Alesha]

Well, another fix is possible. A friend of mine has the same problem on his machine. We discovered that if you start the bos.exe from tactics folder directly, the game will boot up peachy.

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