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[quote who="the_Monk" reply="2" id="1881108"] Sounds strange, because once a game/application is no longer active any "active" changes they might have made should be gone...... however here's something to try anyway. Have him boot into "safe mode". Navigate to the device manager, remove/uninstall his "display adapter" (video card) and then reboot. His video card will be autodetected again on reboot. He should then download the latest vid

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Thank you both for your suggestions. I will be going over there tomorrow night and I'll give them a try. As far as the settings on the monitor itself, he did tell me he tried messing with those, but they didn't help. As I recall, he said that when the computer first boots up, he can see things going on on the monitor. It's not until it boots into Windows that the screen goes blank which tells me it's a Windows setting taht was changed rather than a hardware setting. If that is

Black screen problem in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

I am sending this on behalf of a friend because his computer has become unusable due to this game. He installed this game and the graphics settings were not allowing it to work so he went into the video options of the game to turn down the graphics. He turned down the gamma (brightness) and it turned the screen all black. Becasue of this he couldn't see anything so he rebooted the computer thinking it wouldn't save the change, but now the screen is always black, even in