Game opens but stays black screen

[Dimossa]

is there any technical support team for salem? Where i can open a ticket or something? Its not a solution to roll back a driver when it does fix every issue out there and only game it does brake will be salem. And not just issues but a whole not working thing? Sounds rather ridiculous...

[Kandarim]

Hi, you are now talking to the salem support team. The Help and Technicalities forums are almost entirely answered by other players that care about everyone being able to play the game.

you *could* try to get a dev response. Good luck. Then again, you should also try to lose your blind faith in driver updates.

[MagicManICT]

is there any technical support team for salem? Where i can open a ticket or something? Its not a solution to roll back a driver when it does fix every issue out there and only game it does brake will be salem. And not just issues but a whole not working thing? Sounds rather ridiculous...

Seatribe is a small company with a small budget. While this may be a commercial game, as Kandarim points out, it is very community driven. We are all volunteers here. We all do it for the love of the game and ideas Seatribe brings to the world.

Serious bugs are looked at by the devs, but in some cases (such as this thread), there is only so much they can do when the platform (Java) is bugged up or video card developers bug up their drivers. After all, Salem does only require OpenGL 1.5, which is a 10 year old API. Is there any reason to introduce bugs into what was already working? (I kid with that a bit. Programming is complex, and a small, unobtrusive change to improve performance ends up breaking something nobody has looked at recently. nVidia is a solid company, and they do good with getting good stable releases out most of the time.)

I applaud you for using beta drivers, but if you want to use your system as a driver or OS testbed, you should use a dual-boot or alternate-boot setup or virtual PC program to run test software in so that when a bug does show up, you have something stable to easily fall back on without going through the hassle of changing drivers/updates to play a game or run other apps.

[Dimossa]

Current nvidia drivers i have is WHQL, 331.58. Any news on when issues might be solved? Or best answer is next nvidia drivers? Or let me rephrase it, will salem try to fix this issues, or it will be left entirely to nvidia to fix whatever they did? Still i do see other java apps working, like wurm online.