Black screen when playing game

[Joseph Maillardet]

Warzone2100 - Jaunty 64bits - Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) (aka Intel X4500HD)

The game menu work great. Playing the game seem to work but all the screen is black except the menus and the vehiculs "life-bar".

[Leonardo Robol (leo.robol)]

I have the same problem on Intel GMA965 (X3100) menus working but black screen (except for menus) when playing

[Ivan Ivanoff (spammeroff)]

Hello! I have the same problem in this game with my G45 in Gigabyte motherboard:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Maybe, workaround exists?

[Guangcong Luo (zarelsl)]

Have you tried installing binary drivers from Intel?

Warzone requires hardware OpenGL acceleration, which some drivers may not support.

[Freddie Witherden (freddie-witherden)]

From what I read on Phoronix Canonical really did screw up the Intel driver experience for Jaunty, resulting in poor performance and numerous problems.

Since everyone having Intel is running Jaunty with an Intel card (cards which are known to work under other distributions) I'll bet this is the problem.

[Dawid Ciężarkiewicz (dpc-ucore)]

Same problem here.

$ uname -a
Linux richiter 2.6.28-12-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 1 19:31:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

warzone2100 2.2.0, build from source. Ubuntu 9.04

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

[BenRivers (jsday187)]

Same deal same card. Intel GMA X3100. Im using the newest Kernel and the most bleeding-edge X.org drivers too. I have uxa enabled.

Linux 2.6.30-020630-generic #020630 SMP Wed Jun 10 09:04:38 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

[Ace Suares (acesuares)]

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

Linux test1 2.6.28-13-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 2 07:57:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

same problem, tried with latest intel drivers, tried with older intel driver. No fun.

[Calum (caluml)]

/me too on Jaunty.

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 011f
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 2299
        Memory at fc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
        Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
        Kernel modules: intelfb

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 011f
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Memory at fc100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3

[lazaro (lazaro-baca)]

Same for me on Jaunty

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3035
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 2295
 Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
 Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 I/O ports at 2230 [size=8]
 Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3035
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Memory at f0400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1M]
 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

[Freddie Witherden (freddie-witherden)]

The 'Intel' bit is a giveaway. This is as much a problem with the Intel drivers having poor OpenGL support as it is with Ubuntu making poor driver choices for 9.04.

This is NOT a problem with Warzone -- and these is little that we developers can do about it. The problems are with the Intel drivers.

Maybe you could persuade the Ubuntu developers to add Warzone to their QA/test suite. Just because a set of drivers will run compiz and glxgears does not mean that it is release-worthy ;)

[Fr33d0m (wclark57)]

That would be a good point EvilGuru if Warzone worked in previous Ubuntu versions, or if other games exhibited similar problems.

[fabrice witkowski (fabrice-witkowski)]

For me, Warzone works well with Ubuntu 8.10 . After 3 months of wait for updates.
So ubuntu 9.04 is too young.
I had the same problem with Ubuntu 8 in the beginning.
That's the thing that I know about this game.
It's not a problem with Warzone, but with opengl for me.
It work only if disable the compiz and the Desktop effect in ubuntu 8.10.
There are other games who needs the desactivation of Desktop effects, but the list is off topic.

[Fr33d0m (wclark57)]

I have confirmed this to be a driver issue