Sapien black screen

willtheoct · Post by **willtheoct** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:57 am

i try to open a map in sapien, the game window brings a black screen.

the guy who sent me the files and the guy who i sent the files to both have working versions, with texture problems(but thats it). so i'm 100% sure that the problem resides not within the tags, but within my sapien. i meet the minumum requirements. sapien used to work half a year ago but no longer does. i can't test on anything except the one map because i lost the tutorial.scenario and tool brings up too many errors for me.

07.31.08 10:33:07 sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
07.31.08 10:33:07 reference function: _write_to_error_file
07.31.08 10:33:07 reference address: 401b13
07.31.08 10:33:07 Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
07.31.08 10:33:08 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
07.31.08 10:33:09 Sound card doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements. Disabling hardware option.
07.31.08 10:33:10 Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
07.31.08 10:33:51 WARNING: 1 clusters in structure_bsp levels\test\dodongo_cavern\dodongo_cavern have no background sound or sound environment.
07.31.08 10:33:53 local player 0, weapon (0x0), deleted unexpectedly
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should i reinstall the HEK or is there a quicker solution?

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:12 am

it should work. Maybe you didn't do lightmaps?

willtheoct · Post by **willtheoct** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:27 am

again, it works for the guy who sent it and the guy who i sent it to, the problem lies within my HEK.

also, just now i got a new sapien message: could not teleport camera into starting BSP. its in a slightly darker gray than the others. this is probably the cause... how do i fix it?

L0d3x · Post by **L0d3x** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:45 am

You just have to randomly move the camera around untill you see the BSP. It may take some time if you have bad luck.

willtheoct · Post by **willtheoct** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:44 pm

yeah, but the thing is, for others it started right on spot. he even told me the coords from which i could easily see the level, which i went to precisely.

reinstalling HEK fixed the problem. and i have the tutorial level back.