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Anonymous
13 years ago
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Black screen on startup

I have installed the beta driver from nvidia.

Tried reinstall of game, repaired the install with 0 errors.

Tried running it as an administrator, tried running it in compatibility modes.

When checking task manager the game is hovering on 12-14% CPU usage. Memory locked at same amount.

Unplugged joysticks.

No overclock.

Sometimes I get the message from origin saying that I can press to see overlay. When it shows the screen frezes, like if the game crashed.

Checking task manager it still says running.

My specs:

GTX 680

i7 2600k

8gb ram

64bit win 7

xonar phoebus soundcard

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    I found a fix after random tries.... run it in xp service pack 3 compability mode, and it the ting started!

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    I think I found a solution that has worked so far for me.  Here's what I did:

    • Turned V-sync off in game.
    • Used an external graphic card control program (EVGA Precision X  ver 4.0.0) to manually set Frame Rate Target to 60 fps.

    So far I have not had any more random crashes during gameplay.  Will update if this stops working.

  • xMaNGoZ's avatar
    xMaNGoZ
    12 years ago

    I had this same problem and couldn't find a solution anywhere but I have fixed mine now. I used Nvidia Geforce Experience to change the resolution because it was trying to start in 1280x720 and when I changed it to 1920x1080 it worked straight away.

    Just thought i'd post this since I there is no help from EA

    Hope this helps

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    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Seriously what is this the customers are suppose to solve the problem themselves ? How could EA be so bad !! It pisses me off I bought all the dead space games and now I can't even see the conclusion and EA staff doesn't seems to care it's just incridible !!!

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    hey guys i run on windows 7 and in order for me to get it working i had to go on game properties and click on "disable origin in game for this game"

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Solved! Thank you very much! 🙂

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Thanks buddy !! that works for me 🙂 😉

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I know this is ages was ages ago and all but can you tell me how to change my settings without entering the game? From outside the game people are saying to change reso, But i can't because of the black screen!

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Didn't work :'( I've tried everything !

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I know this is even more ages ago, but if you have a GeForce card you can change the game settings from within the GeForce Experience app.

    For me, it was actually because I had set the display to windowed-borderless.  Resetting this in GeforceExperience to full-screen fixed the issue for me

  • Crimson-btw's avatar
    Crimson-btw
    New Novice
    6 years ago

    I actually fixed this problem and decided to post the solution:

    • Change your resolution in Windows to 720p. (which the game tries to launch in)
    • Go in game to Video settings, set it to Windowed mode at 720p.
    • Change your resolution in Windows to what it normally is; 1080p for me.
    • In Video settings, change your resolution to normal. (1920x1080 for me)
    • If you don't want to actually play in Windowed, set it to borderless.

    Hope this helps someone.

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