Hey all, first post, yay!

But getting in to it. I am having a problem getting into game. When I click on "play" after I select my server, The screen goes black, and SOMETIMES, I will have to CTRL+ALT+DEL to get Task Manager up, and end the game task. Then I will try again, and see if I get the game to play. SOMETIMES It will let me choose my realm, and my player, and after I choose the realm and player, it will go black as if it is about to load, but it does not load. No sound, no nothing, I am forced to CTRL+ALT+DELETE, to bring up the task manager again.

Here are my system specs:

OS: Windows 7 (64bit)
VIDEO: ATI 5770 HAWK (1GB of video memory) X2 connected SLI
MEMORY: 8GB (4 sticks)
Intel i7 950 @ 3.07GHZ

When I started having this problem I thought that it could be the video drivers, so, I rolled back the drivers, and got the same results. So, I updated the drivers to the newest version, got the same results. I also tried changing the screen resolutions, still, no good!

I also have a back up video card (NVIDIA GT 220 1GB video MEM) so I tried using that one. I got the same results, did rollback drivers, got the same results, did update newest drivers, got the same results, changed resolutions no good.

So, I tried something else. I completely uninstalled DAOC, and re-installed it. I would STILL get the same results. So I said ok, maybe its a glitch in the OS, so I formatted my hard drive, did a brand spanking new install on the OS, a brand new install of the game, and I got the same results. As far as I know, NOTHING is wrong with my system.

The only way I can get the game to work, is if I keep CTRL+ALT+DELing, until I finally get in game, which usually takes bout 10-20 times (Last time I played it took my 17 times)

I also checked firewall settings, everything is good. I am a tech guy, and I am completely stumped!

When I do get in game, I asked around and a few of the people I play with that that they have the same problem. So this leaves me to believe it may not be something wrong with my system.

Please, any input guys? HELP!

if you can manage to get into the option screen ingame, try changing to windowed instead of full screen to see if it works that way...

you can also change windowed via the config file in the application data directory, but i dont remember where or the exact name of the file anymore.

 

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Try what this says: http://tinyurl.com/DAoCWiki

 

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Wasn't there a problem with administrator settings in the newer Windows? Had to set DAOC to admin or something.

 

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