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Anonymous
11 years ago

i bought need for speed but only get a black screen when i try to play it

i recently bought need for speed rivals and have not even been able to play it as every time i load it i get a black screen i have tried to exit full screen and it does not do anything, i am running an AMD FX 8350, XFX R9 280 GFX card and 16GB of ram so more than enough to play the game, i have seemn people online say to run the game in windowed mode but i have no option to do that only full screen

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    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    @killajones89 

    If windowed mode did not work for you, try the following please:

    • Reducing your monitor's resolution as much as you can (just to perform a test.)
    • Launching the game from the hard drive and/or running the game in compatibility mode.
    • Make sure that you’ve added the Origin client as an exception to any Firewalls or other Internet Security Software, like Ad-Block, you may have running so that your connection to our servers isn’t blocked.
    • Try a clean boot and right after launch the game only. The Clean Boot process disables many background tasks that may be causing interference: How to Clean Boot your PC or Mac

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