black screen error

[shinomerlin]

do i need to have the Japanese language installed? because i don't have my windows cd and the game dont start and wen i put the english patch it start but sowing only a black screen and i have a 256mb graphic card but it has play all the new games very well and ditn't have any problem anyone know how to makeit work in the official page says something abut this to do with the settings of the game but it dint work that what it says

Q When starting the game, the music doesn't start, and the screen goes black.

A

Your graphics card may not be able to handle the effects you have enabled in the config. This may also occur if your drivers are not up to date, particularly in ATI Radeon cards.

Please try the following:

1. In the Graphics tab of the config utility, uncheck the "Use hardware vertex shaders (v1.1)" box.

2. On the same tab, uncheck the "32-bit backbuffer/texture" box.

3. Please make sure your video card drivers are up to date.

[Red Hairdo]

Hmmm... no idea what I can do to help you. =/ Maybe FM-77 might know something...

(But hey, cool signature. )
<3 TYPE-MOON

[antisaviour]

I am having black screen problem and have to keep restarting every time I tried opening the game.

The game has already been patched to date.

Tried the adding of YSF_WIN_dw9.exe and YSF_WIN.exe in the "don't use ffdshow in" but it doesn't help.

I am using Windows XP Pro 64bit with Service Pack 2.

Can someone help me on this?

[jhefty]

I have the same problem here. My PC already has Japanese Language Support installed from Windows XP CD. Ys Origin & VI works fine but when it comes to YsF

I tried to use English patch & it worked... but since I'm Japanese, I prefer Nihongo

Hope someone can help us settle this problem...

[doppiapunta]

Instead of adding the exes to the ffddshow esclusion try to set the ffdshow to not manage the MPEg1 file format.
I really think that the problem is caused by the ffdshow mpeg1 management.
Just try and let's know..it's a suggestion

[jswizzy5191]

ive tried everything and im still having the same problem i heard it has to do with having sp3 for xp

[doppiapunta]

I have win xp sp3 but i didn't experinced such troubles.

[Red Hairdo]

lol


Windows XP never fails.

[jswizzy5191]

really i deleted my sp3 and it started working again...forget about security issues i need my Ys

[jswizzy5191]

well if someone can eventually get to the root of the problem then i be more than glad to reinstall sp3..but so far this worked for me

[rikiki]

Posted here for sharing:
I had this problem also. I tried a lot of different settings, reinstall, update drivers, change the ffdshow thingy, etc but with no luck.
Detailed problem: Black screen but got sound. Have to press reset button to restart pc if use fullscreen.(Managed to solve this problem by using windowed) Using XP SP3 Home. Graphics driver does not support vertex shader(but I've turn it off in settings)

I'm not sure if it's SP3's problem since I did not uninstall it and I don't really trust my graphics driver. But rather I gave up and try install it on my housemate's pc which she rarely use and it works. She still have XP SP2 but her pc specs are also much much higher.