Wednesday, June 1, 2011

[Minecraft 1.6.5+] Game Screen will Randomly go Black

Symptoms

While playing Minecraft, game screen will go black and requires user to reopen application.

Well this sucks...
Software Information

Windows 7 - No SP1 installed
Nvidia Driver 267.24 or 266.XX
Minecraft 1.6.6

Solution


In Minecraft under Options and Video Settings change Graphics to Fast and set Render Distance to Normal

Hardware Information

Intel Core i7 920 (OC 3.66) CPU
6 GB DDR3 1600 RAM
GTX 295 GPU
5.25 Terabytes HDD(2 WD VelicoRaptors 300GB, 2 WD Green 1TB, 2 Seagates 1TB, 1 Seagate 500GB, 1 120GB Intel SSD)
EVGA SLI LE X58 Motherboard
CM V10 CPU Cooler
Coolmax 950watt PSU
Netgear Wireless N Network Card
Rosewill Raid Card
Nvidia GT 240 Dedicated Physx Processor

Background Information

Black screens can happen for a variety of reasons in Minecraft most commonly incompatible, obsolete, or improperly installed mods, and obsolete or unpatched texture packs. This is neither, its a bug with the minecraft and certain drivers and from what I have experienced this stops it or at the very least makes it happen far less frequently.

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