Screen turns black in the middle of the game

[Joel96]

Hey, i just recently installed windows 7 on my computer.... when i am in the middle of the game my screen will turn black but my laptop is still running i can hear the sounds it's just that the screen turns black only.... anyone plz help me....
my screen only turns black if i alt+tab to desktop and alt+tab bak and then continue playing the game and it turns black

 

[WalkerA WinTeam]

Hi Joel96,

Can you please fill out your System Specs? That will help us figure out how to help you better. Thanks!

Walker
Windows Outreach Team

 

[Lordbob75]

Sounds like a video error. Try reinstalling the game, then make sure your video drivers are up to date.

~Lordbob

 

[gerard006]

i have the same problem. the sound continue but the screen turns black. i have this with different games and i reinstalled my drivers . Does somebody know something to do?

 

[CarlTR6]

@ gerard006 - Are you overclocking anything?

 

[gerard006]

no my pc is standaard. i have this problem for like 3-4 weeks and tried everything but nothing helps. (maybe i need to reinstal windows but i didnt do it yet because its lots of work to reinstall all my programs)

 

[ITz]

Are you running ATI or Nvidia graphics...

 

[artie pendragon]

same thing happening here and the only game I have on this rig is solitaire. never happened with the internet until right now... I have a virtual clone to this rig and never a problem, although it runs Windows 7 home x64 and is not through the TV. Laptop running Home x64 with HDMI never goes black...drivers updated for everything including HDTV... HDMI cable switched...HELP!!!

 

[Agent Jen]

same issue here

I've got the same problem but in my case it's rather wierd. I have two computers with pretty much the same specs pentium core duo 2.8 ghz, 3 gigs ram, both have Nvidea geforce 9500gt and one has XP and the other windows 7. One is an emachine and the other a Dell.

The thing that is wierd is that both PC's run games perfectly with the same video card in both, but one gpu developed a bad fan and so I took the 9500gt out of that one and took the other 9500gt out of the other PC and installed it in the other computer. Now when playing any game it can play perfectly for a few minutes to an hour then the screen goes black and there is nothing you can do about it. ctrl\alt\dlt won't bring the screen back on and the monitor shuts off and I must do a hard shutdown at the power button and restart.

I installed both the drivers that came with the gpu and updated drivers from Nvidea's website. neither works and the problem still exists. If I put the gpu with the bad fan back in the computer having the issue the problem stops and if I install the cpu that I switched out back where it was originally in the original pc it works in that one as well, so placing the two gpu's back in the original pc's they were in works, so this means it's not the operating system causing the issue. it's not corrupted drivers either, or registry issues or anything else I can think of. It's just plain weird. Makes no sense. Anyone have any idea what the hell could be going on?

 

[gambe1984]

I've got the same problem but in my case it's rather wierd. I have two computers with pretty much the same specs pentium core duo 2.8 ghz, 3 gigs ram, both have Nvidea geforce 9500gt and one has XP and the other windows 7. One is an emachine and the other a Dell.

The thing that is wierd is that both PC's run games perfectly with the same video card in both, but one gpu developed a bad fan and so I took the 9500gt out of that one and took the other 9500gt out of the other PC and installed it in the other computer. Now when playing any game it can play perfectly for a few minutes to an hour then the screen goes black and there is nothing you can do about it. ctrl\alt\dlt won't bring the screen back on and the monitor shuts off and I must do a hard shutdown at the power button and restart.

I installed both the drivers that came with the gpu and updated drivers from Nvidea's website. neither works and the problem still exists. If I put the gpu with the bad fan back in the computer having the issue the problem stops and if I install the cpu that I switched out back where it was originally in the original pc it works in that one as well, so placing the two gpu's back in the original pc's they were in works, so this means it's not the operating system causing the issue. it's not corrupted drivers either, or registry issues or anything else I can think of. It's just plain weird. Makes no sense. Anyone have any idea what the hell could be going on?

Genuinely didn't understand that wall of text, however from what I can grasp, 1 GPU runs fine, the other doesn't, so sounds like a faulty GPU

 

[Agent Jen]

Sorry it read a bit confusing. I should have mentioned that the fan that went bad on that particular gpu still works fine. It just has a bad berring and is noisy. I ran diagnostics on it and the other gpu as well and after extensinve testing both are working properly. I did mention that if you put that gpu back in the pc it came out of everything runs fine. all games and apps, no black screen, so it can't be the gpu causing the issue. It works great as long as it is not installed in the other computer. The crazy thing about this is that the gpu with the bad fan works in both pc's but the new one only works in one. I don't understand this at all. Also when the issue happens it's with the gpu that is brand new has no fan issue that is installed when the problem happens not the older one with the bad fan

 

[taylorig]

I had this problem in the past were my screen would just randomly go black, then come back after say 20 seconds.

At first i thought it was my HDMI connection to my monitor. So i reverted to DVI. Same thing kept happening. It would even do it when i was just sat at the desktop doing nothing at all.

In my case i found out exactly what was causing it. Firefox Hardware Acceleration. Basically all i had to do was go in to Firefox options/advanced and untick "Use hardware acceleration when available". Not had the problem since. And funny enough i never once thought it was Firefox but it made sense seeing as i usually always have it open in the background.

So that was, in my case. The solution.

I hope this helps someone at least and if not, that you get things sorted

 

[Agent Jen]

I had an issue with firefox but it wasn't black screen, it was fatal exception blue screens. It took us 7 days of figuring the issue out then someone suggested getting rid of firefox completely. So we did and the issue vanished. I have not used firefox since and never will again. So obviously my issue isn't caused by that. Wish it was because then I could fix it simply by uninstalling firefox. I'll be honest, I had a whole variety of PC issues that all vanished when I got rid of firefox, so I pretty much think it sucks. Thanks for the reply. I hope it does help others if they happen to read this thread.