No video on Benchmark

Hmmm, my husbands gaming laptop cant seem to get any video on the benchmark. The audio plays but the picture is black. Any ideas?

Have you updated your drivers? My wife's computer needed a DirectX upgrade before the thing would even launch but then everything was smooth sailing.

Computer probably isnt strong enough to play the game then ^^;

I will try the DirectX thing right now. Thank you!

My colleague's laptop just threw out an error message and crashed before the video started! We think his on-board GPU can't handle it, so he loaded up RIFT in protest lol

SOLVED: I just had someone else tell me turn off "Improve Overall Graphics Quality" and works fine now. So if anyone else has this issue try that.

also had that same problem there are settings that allow me to see an image but its all blurred but ive seem to have solved that after tweaking some more options.

but i can never get the damn effects turned on even tho for my weaker laptop all the effects even on low are all on.

but my PC which used to run 1.0 almost at max settings cant seem to handle this benchmark.
this is so annoying -.-.

I can't even get the video to load, it just crashes with a cryptic error when I click start.

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Originally Posted by Xenor

I can't even get the video to load, it just crashes with a cryptic error when I click start.

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Have you tried turning off the option for "Improve Graphical Quality"? I believe that has helped others with the same issue you have.

Tried that, but my problem is slightly different to the OP. I don't even get audio. Just a black screen with:

http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/3...vbenchmark.gif

why are all the effects turned off whenever i run this benchmark i cant see spells cast or WS's effects its rly annoying.

My biggest advice to people is;
Make sure your directX is up to snuff
Check your graphics drivers
Make sure to 'run as admin' on win 7 if necessary
Also try Vespar's fix of turning off the option for 'improve graphics quality'.
If you're still having issues after that, post your error message (if any) or word of if you're receiving a black screen etc and I'll try to think of some other tweaks you can try.

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Originally Posted by Xaimera

why are all the effects turned off whenever i run this benchmark i cant see spells cast or WS's effects its rly annoying.

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In the settings there's an option that deals with effects under the 'Effects while in motion' tab, make sure it's switched to own or all

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Originally Posted by Nix

In the settings there's an option that deals with effects under the 'Effects while in motion' tab, make sure it's switched to own or all

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it is always on all or own and still nothing ><
aaaaand even with those options on i get nothing :/ wth...

FIXED ALL ISSUES!!! :D ok somebody helped me fix all my issues i can now have all of the settings on and no black page anymore and my effects have returned!!!
heres what u have to do! :)

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open your ccc, click start button under search type in ccc.exe and pess enter, click the gaming tag then click 3d Application settings the default settings should work just fine, but to reset back to default if something was changed, just click the defaults button on the bottom and apply.

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this fixed my issue with improve overall graphics quality turned on and enable depth of field.
this fix works!!! :D

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Originally Posted by Xaimera

FIXED ALL ISSUES!!! :D ok somebody helped me fix all my issues i can now have all of the settings on and no black page anymore and my effects have returned!!!
heres what u have to do! :)



this fixed my issue with improve overall graphics quality turned on and enable depth of field.
this fix works!!! :D

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Awesome news :) Glad you found a solution and thank you for sharing it so that others who are having difficulty may try it ^^

I have solved my problem. It was Direct X.

I went to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl...ils.aspx?id=35 and downloaded the file, installed it, problem solved.

It seems Windows 7 doesn't come with the full DX library installed.