Culprit seems to have been EVGA Precision X. Go figure. Well, now I can play. Though, I do feel silly for not taking such obvious trouble shooting steps.
[TAI] Sean
The game window doesn't get focus unless I manually tell it to. It starts as a window behind all windows, think of it as taking over my desktop wallpaper and you have an idea. Let's say I have the Steam window open, and press "Play". The game starts behind the Steam window and even behind my start menu. I can actually see it through my aero start menu, and sometimes the intro videos will even play with sound and everything. But as soon as I focus the wi
Mine isn't a black screen. Video card drivers are newest, just updated sound card drivers to ones released last month and no change. http://pastebin.com/QGhF8B3s
When I open the game in the background (like with a web browser at the current focused window) it'll start playing the video and I can even see a bit of it through my start menu. As soon as I minimize everything but the game or just click on the game in my start menu, it freezes and crashes. I've attempted to run it with or without Steam running, both as administrator and otherwise. Any ideas? i7 2500k 8GB RAM GTX680