'Blank' screen on start

Minion63 · Post by **Minion63** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:59 pm

When trying to start OpenRA, both release-20131223 and playtest-20131220, I'm met with a frozen picture of my screen as it was before starting the game (screenshot below). The mouse cursor changes to the black in-game cursor for a short moment, before disappearing, as well. A short moment after, I then hear the menu background battle sounds playing, so the game seems to run fine other than that.

I've scoured the forums, and searched the net in hopes of finding anything that might solve the issue, but I've found nothing so far. I've tried specifying the Cg rendering engine, and windowed mode as well as fullscreen, but to no avail. The graphics.log file is empty, and there is no exception.log file to help troubleshoot the issue either.

My hardware is as follows:

CPU: Core 2 Duo L7500
GPU: Intel GM965 / X3100 (Intel driver v8.15.10.1930)
RAM: 2GB DDR2-5300
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for any help to get this to run properly!

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 6:44 am

Sorry, Intel 965 Express Mobile seems to be too low end. You will have fun with Intel HD 3000 and above.

Minion63 · Post by **Minion63** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 8:20 am

Aw, darn. Guess I got my hopes up too high when trying to find a solution, as I found a post mentioning Intel 900-950 as being too low tech, thinking 965 might just be over that threshold.

Nonetheless, many thanks for the quick reply. I guess I'll have to find myself some better hardware, so I can enjoy this goodness.

Keep up the good work!

Post by **chrisf** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 9:02 am

965 really should work -- have you made sure you have the latest drivers from Intel for it?