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Amnesia won't launch in fullscreen - KillerKoala - 10-15-2011

Hi, everyone, I can't seem to get Amnesia to run in fullscreen. I end up with a black screen and have to ctrl+alt+delete to get out of it. It works fine in windowed mode, but that completely kills any chance of immersion, which is something that I really loved about the Penumbra series. I've tried just about everything I've seen on here and I'm really hoping I can get this to work and enjoy the pants urinating horror that I've come to expect from Frictional Games.

Here's my system specs

Model: Toshiba Qosmio X775
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Processor: Intel Core i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00 GHz, 4 Cores, 8 Logical Processors
RAM: 6 GB
Video Card: NVidia GeForce GTX 560m
Hard disk: 1 TB

and my hpl.log


Version 1.20
-------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------
Engine build ID 20101021192547

Creating Engine Modules
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Creating graphics module
Creating system module
Creating resource module
Creating input module
Creating sound module
Creating physics module
Creating ai module
Creating gui module
Creating generate module
Creating haptic module
Creating scene module
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Initializing Resources Module
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Creating loader handlers
Creating resource managers
Adding loaders to handlers
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Initializing Graphics Module
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Init lowlevel graphics: 1600x900 bpp:32 fs:1 ms:0 gpufmt:2 cap:'Amnesia - The Dark Descent - Loading...' posSad-1x-1)
Setting video mode: 1600 x 900 - 32 bpp
Init Glew...OK
Setting up OpenGL
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: GeForce GTX 560M/PCI/SSE2
Version: 4.1.0
Max texture image units: 32
Max texture coord units: 8
Max user clip planes: 8
Two sided stencil: 1
Vertex Buffer Object: 1
Anisotropic filtering: 1
Max Anisotropic degree: 16
Multisampling: 1
Texture compression: 1
Texture compression S3TC: 1
Auto generate MipMaps: 1
Render to texture: 1
Max draw buffers: 8
Max color render targets: 8
Packed depth-stencil: 1
Texture float: 1
GLSL Version: 4.10 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
ShaderModel 2: 1
ShaderModel 3: 1
ShaderModel 4: 1
OGL ATIFragmentShader: 0
Setting up G-Bugger: type: 0 texturenum: 3
Adding engine materials
Initializing DevIL
Vendor String: Abysmal Software
Version String: Developer's Image Library (DevIL) 1.6.8pre Aug 12 2006
Version Number: 168
Adding engine post effects
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Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL
Available OpenAL devices:
0. Generic Software on Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)(OpenAL default)
Trying to open device 'Generic Software on Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)'... Success!
Number of mono sources: 32
Streaming setup: 4 Buffers x 262144 bytes each
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Initializing Game Module
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Adding engine updates
Initializing script functions
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User Initialization
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Game Running
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RE: Amnesia won't launch in fullscreen - Tanshaydar - 10-15-2011

Did you try to update your drivers?


RE: Amnesia won't launch in fullscreen - KillerKoala - 10-15-2011

Yeah, the device manager said the drivers were up to date.

Also, here's the BlackBox I get when it crashes.

[Image: 20z8fpc.png]


RE: Amnesia won't launch in fullscreen - Tanshaydar - 10-15-2011

I'm not asking for device manager, you should manually install your graphic drivers.
Your operating system is 32-bit, right?

So, download this: http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win7-winvista-280.26-whql-driver.html
Uninstall your graphic driver
Restart your computer
Install this one

Should do the trick.



RE: Amnesia won't launch in fullscreen - KillerKoala - 10-15-2011

64-bit actually, will this driver work? Sorry, should have specified that in the OP.

EDIT: Nevermind, found the 64-bit version.

EDIT2: Worked like a charm, thanks so much!