microstudio - black screen comes up then disappears

[Wallymeister]

mindhunter77

What version of Microstudio are you using? There was an earlier version that changed to dual screen mode. (2.612 or 2.613?) If you don't have a second monitor attached that is what you'll see. You must have a second monitor attached to see the graphics display. They (mtu) has since went back to single monitor for Microstudio I understand. I am personally still using that older version.

Hope this helps,
wallymeister

[George]

Originally Posted by Wallymeister

mindhunter77

What version of Microstudio are you using? There was an earlier version that changed to dual screen mode. (2.612 or 2.613?) If you don't have a second monitor attached that is what you'll see. You must have a second monitor attached to see the graphics display. They (mtu) has since went back to single monitor for Microstudio I understand. I am personally still using that older version.

Hope this helps,
wallymeister

Have NEVER had a second monitor when using Microstio in the last six years. Dual display was available until recently, but has never been a requirement to play a cdg track and see the on screen display.

[Wallymeister]

George,
The version I upgraded to back some time ago, (I believe 2.613) is and still is dual screen only, which means if I have my computer set to dual monitor and I don't actually have a second monitor hooked up, when I play a file in Microstudio all I would get wass a little black screen that pops up for only a short second and then dissapears and I am unable to view the graphics. Before I upgraded from (I think) 2.611 to 2.613 I never had that problem. After researching thru forums I discovered that was the problem. As I understood it, for that version only dual monitors were required. Now keep in mind also that my system is set up to always see a second monitor whether there's actually a monitor hooked up or not, so it was not as simple as changing my configuration to single monitor mode. Don't know what that would have actually done, never tried it.

In short, with that version, I had to hook up a monitor or I was never going to see the graphics, anyway what mindhunter77 is describing is exactly what I was experiencing back then.

Hope this explains better


wallymeister

[George]

That's really wierd.

I had 2.613. My video card was set for extended desktop for Hoster, and I never had the second screen connected except when testing Hoster...no problems playing Microstudio without it.

Might be in the video card configuration.

[Wallymeister]

George,
The only thing I could add to the mix is, it may have been 2.611 to 2.612, not 2.613. Yes I thought it weird too, but as I said I read some things on forums that eluded to this problem and after just using a second monitor to view songs everything was fine.

wallymeister

[mindhunter77]

I'm using 4.0