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RollerCoaster Tycoon seriesQ: RCT/RCT2 both give blank black screen(3 posts)(3 posts)
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Posted October 16, 2011
Upon start-up, both RCT and RCT2 give a blank black screen. The sound is working, but there is no visual display. No error messages are presented.

Can you suggest a way to get the display to work? My idea is that if I could, for example, somehow put the game in Windowed mode it would work. That said, I cannot find a way to enable Windowed mode without actually running the game and selecting the disk and going to Options and selecting Windowed mode. I can't do that because of the black screen issue.

Please help! How do I set Windowed mode without actually entering the game?

Thanks!
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Posted January 05, 2012
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sdbutler80: Upon start-up, both RCT and RCT2 give a blank black screen. The sound is working, but there is no visual display. No error messages are presented.

Can you suggest a way to get the display to work? My idea is that if I could, for example, somehow put the game in Windowed mode it would work. That said, I cannot find a way to enable Windowed mode without actually running the game and selecting the disk and going to Options and selecting Windowed mode. I can't do that because of the black screen issue.

Please help! How do I set Windowed mode without actually entering the game?

Thanks!
I have the exact same problem. Is there no help to be found? My friend who has almost the exact same specs seem to be running it just fine, making me believe it's some kind of setup issue?
Posted January 14, 2012
We finally got it fixed by switching to a different gfx card, there were 2 on the laptop in question. It is an hp pavilion g6. There is a tool to switch graphics cards installed on the computer already, and switching to the other one did it for us.

FWIW, contacting Support was how we got the step-by-step instructions on how to do this, so you may want to give that a shot if you don't know how to do this on the laptop in question, or if you have a different issue.
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