Help! Amnesia Won't Start Up Right

[Madara XIII]

Ok what's up scrubs!?
I'm in a bit of a bind here.
After recently downloading and installing Amnesia: The Dark Descent, I discovered to my dismay that for some strange reason the game doesn't start up properly.

For instance:

I get the menu only instead of the background, I'm only left with a Black Screen in the back.
After the following loading screen, everything goes black. I can still access the menu and even move the character, but all I get is sound and just a black screen.

[HEADING=2]Can anyone PLEASE help me with this issue or be able to find the root of the problem!?![/HEADING]

I would appreciate it very much

[HEADING=2]No Awesome Computer Game means[/HEADING]

HERE ARE MY SYSTEM SPECS:

Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Model: HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC
Processor: Intel (R) Pentium (R) P6200 @2.13GHz
Installed Memory (RAM): 4.00 GB
System Type: 64-bit operating system
Graphics Card: INTEL HD R Graphics

 

[Rabid Toilet]

You've clearly underestimated just how dark this game is.

I'd say try the official forums.

 

[brunothepig]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=897?
I assume you got it off Steam. Usually the forums manage to fix my problems.
Also, if you have to start a thread on the Steam forums then make sure you include your hardware and Operating System information. Editing this post to include that wouldn't hurt either.

 

[dicai]

I would help you install Amnesia, but I forgot how.

 

[direkiller]

Is your graphics driver up to date?(also if its Intel you may be out of luck Indi games don't work to hot with them)
Try changing your scree res

 

[Madara XIII]

Is your graphics driver up to date?(also if its Intel you may be out of luck Indi games don't work to hot with them)
Try changing your scree res

How do I update my graphics driver?

 

[direkiller]

Is your graphics driver up to date?(also if its Intel you may be out of luck Indi games don't work to hot with them)
Try changing your scree res

How do I update my graphics driver?

Go to the website of the company that makes the card(if you dont know what card you have control panel>device manager>display adapters
there will be a driver update section download the one that maches your card and install(screen will most likely flash and change sizes)

after that hope your game works

 

[direkiller]

dem internets be wacky

 

[brunothepig]

HERE ARE MY SYSTEM SPECS:

Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Model: HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC
Processor: Intel (R) Pentium (R) P6200 @2.13GHz
Installed Memory (RAM): 4.00 GB
System Type: 64-bit operating system

Also add operating system (Windows 7 or Vista?) and graphics card information. It's usually the graphics card.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2216389&highlight=screen
Someone had the same issue it seems. Try the stuff in that thread.

 

[Madara XIII]

Is your graphics driver up to date?(also if its Intel you may be out of luck Indi games don't work to hot with them)
Try changing your scree res

Alright I just found an Update Driver for Intel HD R Graphics Card.
I think after I finishing installing it, it should work

 

[direkiller]

Is your graphics driver up to date?(also if its Intel you may be out of luck Indi games don't work to hot with them)
Try changing your scree res

Alright I just found an Update Driver for Intel HD R Graphics Card.
I think after I finishing installing it, it should work

Intel graphics cards are temperamental with Indie games Amnesia especially tends to be buggy.
They may have fixed it(as this was a problem from a wile ago, so i may be worrying you for no reason.

if this dose not work there may be a fan made patch/mod for the game that might help you or the outer forms may have something but that's about as much as I can help you.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx this may help in the future

 

[Madara XIII]

Is your graphics driver up to date?(also if its Intel you may be out of luck Indi games don't work to hot with them)
Try changing your scree res

Alright I just found an Update Driver for Intel HD R Graphics Card.
I think after I finishing installing it, it should work

Intel graphics cards are temperamental with Indie games Amnesia especially tends to be buggy.
They may have fixed it(as this was a problem from a wile ago, so i may be worrying you for no reason.

if this dose not work there may be a fan made patch/mod for the game that might help you or the outer forms may have something but that's about as much as I can help you.

DAMMIT Even now it's not working.
Do you think another Graphics card will work?


Or should I take it to Geek Squad or something?

 

[direkiller]

Is your graphics driver up to date?(also if its Intel you may be out of luck Indi games don't work to hot with them)
Try changing your scree res

Alright I just found an Update Driver for Intel HD R Graphics Card.
I think after I finishing installing it, it should work

Intel graphics cards are temperamental with Indie games Amnesia especially tends to be buggy.
They may have fixed it(as this was a problem from a wile ago, so i may be worrying you for no reason.

if this dose not work there may be a fan made patch/mod for the game that might help you or the outer forms may have something but that's about as much as I can help you.

DAMMIT Even now it's not working.
Do you think another Graphics card will work?


Or should I take it to Geek Squad or something?

I don't think geek squad can help as its not exactly a problem they deal with.

you cant exactly get another graphics card on a notebook as there integrated and even so there is not exactly space(often even lacking the slot for it)

Honestly your best bet is to look around a bit on the sites forms there is most likely a patch/mod or a cracked/pirated version(seeing you own the game its not piracy at this point) that works with Intel cards.

 

[Madara XIII]

Is your graphics driver up to date?(also if its Intel you may be out of luck Indi games don't work to hot with them)
Try changing your scree res

Alright I just found an Update Driver for Intel HD R Graphics Card.
I think after I finishing installing it, it should work

Intel graphics cards are temperamental with Indie games Amnesia especially tends to be buggy.
They may have fixed it(as this was a problem from a wile ago, so i may be worrying you for no reason.

if this dose not work there may be a fan made patch/mod for the game that might help you or the outer forms may have something but that's about as much as I can help you.

DAMMIT Even now it's not working.
Do you think another Graphics card will work?


Or should I take it to Geek Squad or something?

I don't think geek squad can help as its not exactly a problem they deal with.

you cant exactly get another graphics card on a notebook as there integrated and even so there is not exactly space(often even lacking the slot for it)

Honestly your best bet is to look around a bit on the sites forms there is most likely a patch/mod or a cracked/pirated version(seeing you own the game its not piracy at this point) that works with Intel cards.

WHOOO I got it to work!!!
What I ended up doing was uninstalling my Previous Graphics Card and reinstalled the latest update overriding the invalidity whenever I got to the Intel Download center.

The game runs like a charm and I'm loving it.

Thanks alot to everyone for the help

 

[Shri Kant]

I have same Intel graphics. And it lags on medium settings. and it looks crap on lowest settings . which setting you running on ?

 

[Nalbis]

Well, your computer tried to warn you...

 

[Madara XIII]

I have same Intel graphics. And it lags on medium settings. and it looks crap on lowest settings . which setting you running on ?

running it on 640x480 on Medium settings.
It catches a bit of lag, especially around larger areas like at the beginning with the piano

 

[Shri Kant]

is runs smooth starting but midway lags terrible. not recommended to play on intel hd. i had rather wait to get hands on decent pc than ruin the fun

 

[Madara XIII]

is runs smooth starting but midway lags terrible. not recommended to play on intel hd. i had rather wait to get hands on decent pc than ruin the fun

I know. I catch so much bullshit while playing the game.
The moment I start it up the mouse freezes and I can't move it until I log off and log back on.

To make matters even worse I got all the way up until he had the flash back before the game crapped out on me