WoW Junkies...

[opalinemortal]

Have any of you had WoW start up go dead with the black screen of doom (the one where you have to do a hard reboot

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[psyco_path]

sounds like a graphics thing. Not that I know how to fix it.

[opalinemortal]

That's the funny thing. The drivers are all up to date. There's no errors with the grapics card when running other programs.

[psyco_path]

On my machine it switches from one resolution to another when it starts wow. If it was getting hung at that step then it would be a black screen that would have no response when you hit the any key.

I'm guessing you reinstalled right?

[opalinemortal]

Yup, uninstalled, rebooted, scan disked, defraged, reinstalled.

[starofblight]

You're getting just a black screen when you launch the program? Is it random or constant? CoV was doing that for me, I had to get some new drivers, wasn't a big problem. Though sounds still worked for me, and I was always able to alt-tab out.

[opalinemortal]

Still getting sounds... though the opening bit of music acts like its an old record with a scratch. Can't alt+tab out of it, all he can do is hard reboot.

[starofblight]

He's using Windows? What video card? You might try some driver updates if he's still having issues. Had to do that for CoV, not that I play any more. ^_^