Game freezes, then becomes black

[betaplayer]

Hey all

So I'm playing multiplayer, when all of sudden my screen freezes. The game continues still though. Since I can hear pinning going on, I can still pause using my keyboard, etc.

When I alt-tab to desktop and back to the game, the screen is black. Yet, cursor and sound are still working, and the game is still going on, on the other side.

I don't always have this problem and it only emerged since yesterday. I had this a total of 3 times now. It's unplayable (duh), and like most of you here, I absolutely love this game.

My system:
Core I5 (haswell)
AMD HD7870 (up to date driver 13.12)
8gig
Win 8.1 x64
single screen.

Game.log:
pastebin. com/W2mbaaY6
Forever.log:
pastebin. com/Yt0GsTVi

I've been searching around. I know this issue is very similar to issues with dual screen set-ups, but this is a single screen setup.
I tried enabling en disabling V-sync, no help. I tried windowed mode, no resolve either. I'm currently looking into previous version for my videocard-driver, although I'm not really a fan of that solution.

Also: to my knowledge (not 100% sure): I don't have any mods installed or running.

I couldn't help but notice that I had these issues since the last update of FAF.

Help me, you're my only hope!

[ax0lotl]

I've had that problem, after an update of my video driver. I have almost the same computer setup as you.
In your log file are entries about DeviceD3D9.cpp, which are DirectX errors.

I could solve the issue by doing a rollback on my video driver: in Device Manager, in Display Adapters, go to Properties of your card, and on the driver tab press Roll Back Driver.

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[Xinnony]

There are some years that made me such a solution : Set Windowed in resolution.

[xeonight]

With my Nvidia drivers, there are beta drivers, and that's what i usually use, and if there's a problem, i go back to the stable release version, maybe the reverse is true for you? can you use Beta drivers from AMD?

[Commander_Adama]

Same setup same problem, dif. amd hd 7850 newest stable driver.
Started after the newest FA patch, might be related to GAZ_UI and hotbuild if you have had that installed, like me, as the new patch includes these as default in a fashion.
Need tutorial to setup hotbuild because i do not know how to set it up manually, until then I will not be playing and therefore cannot say if removing those 2 mods resolve the problem.
Hope it helps.

[betaplayer]

The problem continues. I run in windowed mode, I didn't have any UI mods to my knowledge. I reinstalled faf, I downgraded my driver to the april-release (I believed this helped in terms of number of occurrences). But it's still really annoying since it happens random and makes the game unplayable for me without abandoning my team mates every once in a while.

Apparently I'm not the only one with such issues and they appear to be linked with the most recent patch.

for the record: my most recent game-log in attachment.

Can anybody help us? Apparently I'm not the only one experiencing issues and it's really the kind of issue which makes the game unplayable online.

[Ze_PilOt]

Looks like a GFX driver problem. Can't help you without more infos about your config.

[Nojoke185]

Hi

Have had the same problem here also, FA has been working fine for ages (I run in windowed mode), then roughly 3-4 weeks ago it seems I started having the screen randomly freeze when in game with FA. If you move away from the FA window then return the screen/window is black, you can hear the game is still running ok in the background however.
I have not changed any video settings from when it was working reliably (same vid drivers). Using ATI 7950 with 13.12 driver with I7 4770K, 16GB RAM
I get the same problem online and in skirmish using FAF.
Have removed all mods and done a clean install of FA with latest FAF and problem still occurs
It seems intermittent, I can play some matches fine without issue.
If there are any logs I could provide which could help identify cause please let me know

Regards, Neill

[breakthosecuffs]

Having same problem, will update graphics drivers and see if problem persists.

[Stefan]

same problem