Hi, I’ve just downloaded Warcraft 3 on my Mac. However, it only shows up a black screen after the launcher, there is a glove cursor but nothing else. There were solutions for Windows before but doesn’t work for mac (?). Warcraft 3 cinematics - Black Screen (Windows 10 pro) User Info: AegisRunestone. AegisRunestone 5 years ago #1. I installed the old games today, and everything works fine. Except the cinematics; all I get is a black screen (I do hear the audio though).
Crashing or Black Screen on Launch Issue – Fix
Crash on Launch Issue
The screen/monitor goes into a permanent 'sleep' mode, turns black, and cannot be removed from this state. Sometimes the cursor can still be seen and moved. The sound effects, background music, or any other audio in the game comes out of the speakers, but repeats itself in a choppy manner (sometimes.). Experience the epic origin stories of Warcraft, now more stunning and evocative than ever before. Black Screen Issue. Fix 1: Switch out of your game, then switch back in. This is the first thing you should try when you have a black screen issue on Warcraft III: Reforged. To do this: -When your game is running, press the Alt and Tab keys on your keyboard at the same time to switch out of the game.
The first reason for the game to crash might be the lack of administrative rights. Right-click on the game’ and select “Run The Game as Administrator”. If this doesn’t work for you then try playing the game from the account that has the administrative rights.
Another reason for the game to crash at launch is the anti-virus or the Windows Defender, which might be detecting the game’s exe file as a trojan virus.
You can either disable the anti-virus or make an exception for the game in the anti-virus. This will allow the game to run on your system.
Also, an outdated GPU driver might also be the reason for the game to crash. Just update your drivers to the latest version.
How do I update my video card drivers?
- -Press Windows + R.
- -Type “DxDiag” and click OK.
- -After the DirectX Diagnostic Tool loads, select the Display tab.
- -The video card’s name and manufacturer are listed in the Device section. The current driver version is listed in the Driver section.
- -Visit the driver manufacturer’s website to obtain the most up-to-date driver. Contact the driver manufacturer for assistance with updating the driver. If the computer is under warranty, contact the computer manufacturer.
Black Screen Issue
Fix 1: Switch out of your game, then switch back in
This is the first thing you should try when you have a black screen issue on Warcraft III: Reforged. To do this:
- -When your game is running, press the Alt and Tab keys on your keyboard at the same time to switch out of the game.
- -Press the Alt and Tab keys on your keyboard at the same time to switch back into your game.
If this works for you, you won’t see the black screen. But if the issue persists, don’t worry. There are still other fixes for you to try.
Fix 2: Switch to the windowed mode, then switch back to the full screen mode
A black screen is usually caused by some temporary graphics settings issue. And this can usually be fixed by switching between the windowed and full screen mode. To do so:
- -When your game is running, press the Alt and Enter keys on your keyboard at the same time to go to the windowed mode.
- -Press the Alt and Enter keys on your keyboard at the same time to switch back to the full screen view.
This should fix your black screen issue.
This is the first thing you should try when you have a black screen issue on Warcraft III: Reforged. To do this:
- -When your game is running, press the Alt and Tab keys on your keyboard at the same time to switch out of the game.
- -Press the Alt and Tab keys on your keyboard at the same time to switch back into your game.
If this works for you, you won’t see the black screen. But if the issue persists, don’t worry. There are still other fixes for you to try.
Fix 2: Switch to the windowed mode, then switch back to the full screen mode
A black screen is usually caused by some temporary graphics settings issue. And this can usually be fixed by switching between the windowed and full screen mode. To do so:
- -When your game is running, press the Alt and Enter keys on your keyboard at the same time to go to the windowed mode.
- -Press the Alt and Enter keys on your keyboard at the same time to switch back to the full screen view.
This should fix your black screen issue.
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It runs all the latest games fine (Fallout 3, Far Cry 2 and the like) but oddly enough it just kills my Warcraft 3: TFT.
Here's the problem:
I'd be playing it halfway, and the screen will go black, and after a long time (about a minute or so) it will return to the game fine. This repeats itself every few minutes. At this point, if I alt-tab, the same long black screen will occur again.
I was previously using an Ati card, and thought there might be driver conflicts. So I uninstalled the nVidia drivers, got Driver Cleaner Pro 1.5 and cleaned all Ati and nvidia drivers in safe mode. I reinstalled the nVidia driver again (180.48) and rebooted, and went back to playing.
The same problem occured, except that this time, the graphics become all messed up upon returning from the long black screen (See image). Upon exit game, desktop appears fine and works normally (no artifacts).
GPU temperatures appear to be normal (~52 on idle, ~70 on load).
I looked it up on the net and someone suggested a directx test (dxdiag > test directdraw and direct3d).
In directdraw there are 3 tests: 2 non-full screen and 1 full screen test. The non full screen tests run fine. When it reached the 3rd test (full screen test) the same long black screen thing happened again, but ultimately it passed.
Next was Direct3d and the very first test is already a full screen one. At this point it didn't continue. I had to press the reset button because nothing was responding anymore.
It seems there are no absolute solution to this and therefore I am posting in hopes of getting some help from you all. I also got a nv4_disp BSOD before I reinstalled the drivers, but upon Driver Cleaner + reinstall, it didn't happen anymore.
Here are my specs:
Windows XP SP2
Gigabyte P35-DS3 motherboard
Intel C2D E6750 2.66Ghz
Kingston 2GB DDR2 RAM (PC6400 I think)
2 x 160GB Western Digital HDDs
Zotac Geforce GTX 260 216 sp AMP2
Samsung Syncmaster 226BW wide screen LCD monitor, running @ 1680x1050 and 60Hz
Feel free to ask for any additional info as required. Do note that other newer, more graphically demanding games run fine even after many hours of playing and alt-tabbing (Fallout 3, Far Cry 2, Need for Speed Undercover).
I updated to the Nov 2008 DirectX 9.0c and it seemed to work (yesterday) but I just got my first long freeze in a game earlier. Also upon update the dxdiag tests ran fine.
Thanks in advance.