Screen goes black, except for curser?

LokoLobo · Post by **LokoLobo** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:59 am

I just started playing HoU and every few minits the screen goes black except for the curser. I can still move the curser around and it will change depending what it's over and I can still hear the sound and know the game has not locked up. I've not had this problem with any other game or program. I also did not have this problem with the original NWN's.
Any idea's as to what might be causing this and how I might be able to fix it?

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Zel Greywords · Post by **Zel Greywords** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:12 am

I had that phenomenon a long time ago... in my case, the answer to it was rather ridiculous: namely that my installation of NWN rejects custom portraits. And it seems that quite many installations still do that even in their readily-patched state.

Sounds strange? Well yes it is - still, as soon as I had created a new character using a default portrait, things went perfectly fine. So... do you use a custom portrait? If so, try making a character with a default portrait and check if the blackouts still occur. Chances are good that fixes it.

If not... sorry, that's the only thing crossing my mind. Sometimes the game does the same thing while you are playing fan-built modules and you do something that totally screws up the quest tree (killing a vital npc for example), but that happened just once to me so far.

-Zel

LokoLobo · Post by **LokoLobo** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:54 pm

will try it

Thankyou I'll try that but it's gonna suck due to all the time I have invested in the character I was using.. But thanks we'll see what happens..

LokoLobo · Post by **LokoLobo** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:37 am

Fixxed it..

I feel like an idiot.. Screen never goes black now.. for some reason the things I had running "Yahoo messanger" MSN messanger" were affecting the game.. after I turn off all the things running in the back ground it worked great with no more problems...