BF3 black screen after loading "no signal"
Tried to come back to BF3 after having various issues with World of Warships. Install of Origin and BF3 went fine. As soon as the game loads, it goes into black screen mode with the message "no signa...
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Tried the clean boot. I also disabled everything with my Bitdefender security suite. Load the game and after a bit, it goes to the "no signal" message & I have to force a restart.
It's not a temp issue as the card doesn't pass 70 cel.
Can't be an issue with the card as I am also playing Crysis 3 at the moment & with it, only get the very random dxgi error device removed which seems to happen when graphics are set to medium.
Tried bf3 again with all settings to low or off, vsync on, stereoscopic 3d off etc, Plays for a few minutes then black screens to force a reboot.
How do I delete the game settings without deleting the game saves?
Is there a preferences file or the like that stores controls, graphic settings etc I can delete?
*Edit* I deleted the settings, reloaded the game & it crashes instantly upon campaign start. I can get into the settings. But it crashes when I click resume.
Currently, the game is crashing due to the display driver crashing & recovering.
This same driver does not crash when playing Crysis 3 though. So what is different with BF3 that is causes the crash?
@EA_Archi, did you give up ?
EA_ArchiEA Staff (Retired)
Hello @DreamLord41
PC troubleshooting can be tricky sometime. What version of Windows you are currently using? Can you also give us an error messages, you are getting, in case game does not crushes with black screen? So the lower graphic setting did not resolved this, have you also changed your in-game resolution?
There are no error messages. It just pops up the screen that says "no signal, make sure proper input is selected" etc.
This is on windows 10.
I don't get this issue with Crysis 3 or World of Warships.
- EA_Archi
This issue seems to be caused by your GPU downcloking. This is an AMD specific problem with some games under Windows 10. I would advice you to dig deeper on this issue on AMD official forum https://community.amd.com/. Let me know, should you discover the solution there 😉
@EA_Archi I got my hands on a better video card in a Club 3D Royal King Radeon HD 7950 3GB. Loaded up the game on ultra settings & played a bit. Then I got a dx error.
- EA_Archi
Hello @DreamLord41
So you were able to run the game, right? As for this error, have you wiped the old drivers clean, before installing a fresh set for your new GPU?
Cheers,
Archi
Yes, I ran the Display Driver Uninstaller aka DDU while in same mode.
