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last 4 patch now back to black screen
lasarith
Member Posts: 31
last four patch, updated now the screen is black with flickering i can see the desktop, it wont take any configuration in config.exe and the cheetah 2 engin keeps saying failed to create shader objectgui.psh,
i cant even get the left ctrl, right shift, c to work anyone any idears thanks.
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What video card do you have?
ati radeon x200(x300drivers) mobile -it was working perfect -apart from the sound problem everyone was haveing, just now afte the last few patch at 5pm i now only get the mountain snow seen.
Had problem in beta the first time I ran it, it seems to have to do with vid cards. What you do is before launching game when you simply have the launcher up go into options and select windowed mode. Now once you get into game go back into the options and change it back to full screen. That fixed the black screen problem for me and I didn't have it again after that.
Same problem here. My specs meet the minimum requirements, but I'm getting a flickering black screen when I try to open AoC.
tryed that it wont acept the changes, it worked on/in beta and the left ctrl, right shift,c button worked on the 15th for shader 2.0 and it was fine no problems , just last patch buggred it up compleatly.
running 2 e6600 core 2 duos, vista 64, 4gigs of ram, 8800gts....1 system has no issue(mine) wifes pc is having this issue...tried the go to windowed mode thing from beta and the screen was still black, then turned tan, and then has the character log in screen, but no options to make a character or view of character slots.
Also, just to add...she was able to load in no problems and see the movie until this last round of patches and her graphics work fin on other games/desktop
What ever the last patch where for seem to have fixed the sound issue but buggred the graphics -keep getting cheetah failed to create pixel shader object gui.psh ???
new patch!!
So no more black screen or??
Sounds like a problem with DirectX to be honest. I never played AoC, never will play it, but flickering screens are usually the cause of the renderer.
Or of course, it's possible that Funcom made some mistakes configuring DirectX as their renderer. 
You know it, the best way to realize your dreams is waking up and start moving, never lose hope and always keep up.
damn it no diffrence still balck flickering and no log in screen just the ice mountians.
still nothing anyone fixed this ?
I am having same exact problem. Dont know what else to do. all happened as these guys say to the T. Anyone know what to do?
Same here Iasarith. Dont know, and niether do my m8s. But 2 other guys in our guild are having it too.
I can't even download this latest patch. Wow.
anything yet?
I get the "Play" button and sometimes "Agree" etc then the game just goes away
http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=460
works -open in notepad and use find shadermodel -easyer then looking for it!
there is the solution but i cannot access forum, can someone go there and paste the text here please!!!
Here is the text from the forums. Another post recommended changing it from "1" to "-1" which is what I had so if this doesn't work you might want to try that. Wow what a pain this has been.
Also, the path is slightly different for vista and make sure you have hidden files on.
From official forums:
Go to folders-
Documents and Settings+Username+Local Settings+Application Data+Funcom+Conan+Prefs
Right Click Prefs_2 choose Open with..Notepad.
Find and Change
<Value name="FullScreen" value="true" />
<Value name="RenderSetting_ShaderModel" value="-1" />
to
<Value name="FullScreen" value="false" />
<Value name="RenderSetting_ShaderModel" value="0" />
Hmm I got to the Conan folder you said, but there is no "prefs", I also asked a buddy 2 check and he didn't see it either. I'm on windows XP...
I cannot see that link as I don't have an AoC forum account
Thanks a lot for the help
I found a file called "Mainprefs.xml" in C:Program FilesFuncomAge of Conancd_imageGuiDefault And it had similiar lines of text that were to be edited in that prefs_2 or watever, the problem is.. When I change them and run the client, the "Scanning" thing changes them back....
someone please help (Bumping thread because I want to play..
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I did as it was posted earlier "Documents and Settings+Username+Local Settings+Application Data+Funcom+Conan+Prefs" but remember to go to your controlpage and change mapsettings so u can see hidden files.
Sorry Xife I was away from computer for most of day and never got to respond. I hope you got it figured out but the official forums have been corrected and the fix is up there now too. I experienced the problem you were having, make sure you go to local files if it is still not working. I was going to app data directly and then realized it is something like local files then app data since there are two folders. Also make sure hidden are shown. Goodluck!