Okay so I'm able to play the base game of Elite Dangerous. Though I just got Horizons and it says it's installed and everything. I got to boot it up it goes to the Frontier logo then the Horizons logo then black screens then I get and error page then nothing still shows client is runny but black screen. I've had it up for about an hour or two thinking it was loading and still nothing. I've uninstalled reinstalled, validate files, check update, still does the same thing. Anyone have any ideas on what is wrong and what I should do to fix this issue?
Horizons Can't play Horizons but can play the base game.
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You may have to change your game's language to English. My father changed his video card and I think he had the same issue you have, OP. The Default language causes issues with some graphics cards
Yup I made sure all my graphic drivers were up to date and they all seem to be.
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Yup I made sure all my graphic drivers were up to date and they all seem to be.
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Okay so first it was through Steam (My friends gifted it to me). I know little to nothing about pathing or directories. I'll see what I can do about it and try my best. I've been trying most of my day trying to get it to work since I had the day off. I'll take a look at it and will ask questions while trying to do it.
Hey there Destructron.
Looking at your account, I can confirm that your copy of Horizons is registered and I'm pretty confident that you have it installed.
However, it looks as though you're running Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 and that's likely to be the cause of your black screen.
These integrated Intel chipsets are below the minimum specifications for Horizons so unfortunately, if you've no dedicated Nvidia or AMD card then it's unlikely you'll be able to get past this.
You'll still be able to run the base game as it's far less demanding from a graphical standpoint.
If you've no dedicated card, I'd offer to refund the expansion for you but I can see you bought from Steam
Looking at your account, I can confirm that your copy of Horizons is registered and I'm pretty confident that you have it installed.
However, it looks as though you're running Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 and that's likely to be the cause of your black screen.
These integrated Intel chipsets are below the minimum specifications for Horizons so unfortunately, if you've no dedicated Nvidia or AMD card then it's unlikely you'll be able to get past this.
You'll still be able to run the base game as it's far less demanding from a graphical standpoint.
If you've no dedicated card, I'd offer to refund the expansion for you but I can see you bought from Steam
For the base game, the worst I saw was someone trying to run it on a 10 years old GPU with 7 years old drivers, and it worked. I doubt you'd beat that
For the base game, the worst I saw was someone trying to run it on a 10 years old GPU with 7 years old drivers, and it worked. I doubt you'd beat that
Had an Intel Q43 chipset surface not so long ago and danged if it didn't load up the base game
Shall we take the planets away?!
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I'll take the ability to run on these systems as a sign of the effort that went into making the game It scales pretty well, just that it trips up people once they upgrade.
Wouldn't it make sense to have some basic system checks in the launcher telling people if Horizons would run? Like showing red lights on intel graphics, pre-GCN AMD chips, whatever nvidia has put to pasture for driver support, less than 2GB video RAM, etc.; a lot of that should even be machine-readable in the hardware survey.
It scales pretty well, just that it trips up people once they upgrade.Wouldn't it make sense to have some basic system checks in the launcher telling people if Horizons would run? Like showing red lights on intel graphics, pre-GCN AMD chips, whatever nvidia has put to pasture for driver support, less than 2GB video RAM, etc.; a lot of that should even be machine-readable in the hardware survey.
For the base game, the worst I saw was someone trying to run it on a 10 years old GPU with 7 years old drivers, and it worked. I doubt you'd beat that
Was that the guy with the 9800GT bug reporting it?
It didn't work very well!
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Hey there Destructron.
Looking at your account, I can confirm that your copy of Horizons is registered and I'm pretty confident that you have it installed.
However, it looks as though you're running Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 and that's likely to be the cause of your black screen.
These integrated Intel chipsets are below the minimum specifications for Horizons so unfortunately, if you've no dedicated Nvidia or AMD card then it's unlikely you'll be able to get past this.
You'll still be able to run the base game as it's far less demanding from a graphical standpoint.
If you've no dedicated card, I'd offer to refund the expansion for you but I can see you bought from Steam
Yeah thanks for checking that out for me I wanted to make sure that it wasn't something weird before I said it was my graphics card. I'll just have to get a new laptop/desktop soon anyways this laptop is really old probably 4 or 5 years.
I also like this suggestion too it would help a lot. I've always went to a certain website to find out if my laptop could run the game but the issue is they didn't count the fact of my integrated chip and some games would run though it says I couldn't (such as the base game of Elite Dangerous). Also never seen customer support comment on forums on problems like this this probably now has my vote for best customer support out there.I'll take the ability to run on these systems as a sign of the effort that went into making the game
Wouldn't it make sense to have some basic system checks in the launcher telling people if Horizons would run? Like showing red lights on intel graphics, pre-GCN AMD chips, whatever nvidia has put to pasture for driver support, less than 2GB video RAM, etc.; a lot of that should even be machine-readable in the hardware survey.