Black Screen After Pushing Esc

Brutal_Sponge

<div class="IPBDescription">Can't even do ctrl-alt-del</div> This is annoying. So very annoying. Whenever i'm inside a game (LAN or over the internet) when i push Esc I get sent to a completely black screen, and i can't even do ctrl-alt-del to kill NS. I'm forced to restart.

Here's my system specs:
Windows 2000
AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (Running at 1733mhz)
256mb PC2100 RAM
Radeon 9500 Pro 128mb (With latest drivers installed as of the Thursday just passed).
Resolution: 1024*768 in OpenGL.
9.30gb HD (Yeah yeah it's small i know)

I'm thinking it's a graphics card problem as it didn't happen when I had my old 8mb card.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is becoming very annoying.

Black_Ops_Lerk_Master

Check drive for erros mabye? Defrag? any randomn thing people would suggest? its all good..

You could just learn to do everything via console, so you wouldnt need to press escape. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

Try use a third party proggie to connect to games, like All seeing eye, cus the only reason i assume you'd press escape is to join another server via the internet games tab.

Brutal_Sponge

I might need to push escape for various reasons, changing controls etc. As I said, drivers are the latest.

St0nkingByte

I have a Radeon 9700 Pro and I had the same problem after upgrading to the Catalyst 3.2 drivers. I've since downgraded myself to the Catalyst 2.5 drivers (in a vain attempt to make other demons go away) and I do not have that problem now.

I don't recall this issue with the 3.0 or 3.1 drivers either. You can find the not new ATI drivers here:

<a href='http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/win2karchive.html' target='_blank'>http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/win2...n2karchive.html</a>

I'd give the 3.1 drivers a try.

Gimpy_Doodly_Doo

I have the same problem with my S3 card (S3 whats that!) It has 32 megs and the latest drivers. I had to get the latest drivers to run AOM in january. It only does this after I test ony of my crappy mast that I made.