Black screen when starting New Game

[prattw]

I've tried this on a few computers and can only get a black screen when I start a new game. I have been able to join tournament games however. I get the black screen logged in and locally.

Thanks

[Chuckie Chuck]

This idea may or may not work, but I have found that on some computers, when I start a game, I have to switch back to the lobby tab after joining and then back to the game tab.  This for some reason helps the video driver initialize the bitmaps on them.

Otherwise, you may have some kind of internal network hangup on a private ip address on your firewall that doesn't effect the game while connects to a public address.  (Believe when running local mode, the game initials on IP:127.0.0.1 which essentially should redirect automatically to your computers local IP address for use inside the local LAN.)  I'm not sure my understanding of this is 100% right, it's just a thought.

[AryuLimitless]

@Chuckie:  You're essentially right.  Your LAN IP is usually 127.0.0.1 which works out to be local if you're HOSTING any kind of local game connection, regardless of the other players.  This is the IP of your game host, and you have to make sure the others can connect to you locally, usually taken care of with your router (whether wireless (i.e. WiFi) or wired (i.e. Ethernet cable) is needed).

The simplest way to check is to log into your router and see if the other players are "showing up" in the list.  If not, you'll have to give them the password to log into the router (wired or wireless) and go from there.

I host these kinds of things all the time, as well as a local server I use for "serving up" various games and clients...  It saves me space (on my lappy's hard drive) and time (to get the connection right).  Take the time to get it right and you'll have hundreds of LAN games happening after a while, and you'll be the life of the LAN party!!! ^_^

~Aryu