I took advantage of the "Because we may sale" and picked up Swords and Soldiers since I have thoroughly enjoyed it on the PC. Problem is when I launch the game I can hear the music but only see a black screen with the navbar on the bottom. Any suggestions to get this working? Has ANYONE managed to successfully play?
Hopefully we can get this working and share some stories. The game is really hilariously fun and has its share of epic moments. I was excited that I'd finally be able to have it on the go.
Attempts so far:
Turn off GPU rendering-- black screen black screen with music
Turn off surface dithering -- blach screen black screen with music
16-bit rendering -- black screen with music
Surface dithering on, 16 bit graphics -- title screen then black screen with music
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Anyone figured this out yet? My kids love the funny face effect but we can't seem to figure out the background effect. You choose one and it says to get out of view and put the Prime down. We've done that but when you pick the Prime back up to shoot the effect is only shown where the picture is dark or black. I don't get it. It's really no big deal but my kids love stuff like this.
Set up the prime where it can stand by itself (set it up where the background isn't moving). Then turn on the effect. Stay out of the view of the camera. Then go back into view after it displays the Image you chose on the screen and record yourself. Its not actively fun because you cant use it and see it at the same time. It acts as a green screen though. So its fun for music videos or little plays.
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You can also put it over your own videos in the pick your own video one so you could make a face to face with yourself video.
Also shadows will be interpreted as new objects and in turn not be "Green Screened" so pick an area where the is minimal shadows.
Thanks, I'll give that a try tonight.
I am kind of just curious about this, as I have searched the net and have found no one who has experienced the same problem.
I have a Blu Touch Book 7.0 plus, and plan on making do with it until the right phablet comes along at the right price. About a week ago I had it in my pocket as I helped to unload some heavier packages from a truck. It took some impact while in my pocket, I didn't think it took any meaningful impact. But then I turned on the screen, and everything seemed to have a blue tint. On closer examination - it didn't have a blue tint per se, but black was being displayed as blue; opaque black was opaque blue, semi-transparent blacks and darker grays and what not resulted in a blue tint. But whites and most colors displayed perfectly fine - i.e. for example, the Google home page looked completely normal. The display damage is evident even on boot, as soon as the manufacturer logo pops up before the bootanimation.
My workaround for the time being is to use a screen filter that places a semi-transparent white image over the screen, which gets rid of any hints of opaque black with about 48% transparency. It results in faint colors of course, but the colors are at least accurate with no blue tint, and the screen looks almost completely normal from the certain viewing anglea. Interestingly - the absence of opaque black seems to result in a lighter load for either the cpu or the gpu; previously the phone ran very smooth but if I had Dolphin (or another resource consuming app) open, and turned the screen off without pulling up my home page first, the screen would not always turn back on right away, either I would have to long press the power button or wait up to several seconds. Now, regardless of what I have open, I can toggle the screen on and off without lag.
So is this damage to the gpu? The screen itself? Does anybody suggest a better work-around?
Appreciate it.
Are you noticing that when you use Stock Gallery, Netflix, and YouTube apps, rendering a completely black picture or video doesn't show pure black. Rather it looks like a blotchy black. It bother me so much since this is an AMOLED screen and I know that when an OLED panel renders black it shuts off every pixel rendering black so a plain black image should turn off the screen completely. But in my case I see blotchy black screen and this is only noticeable when you're in a dark room. Please tell me you also experience this. Otherwise, can somebody explain why? Do I have a defective screen? Thanks!
Videos and pictures in lossy formats won't have a perfect color information, the system will try to interpret it the betst as it can, mostly resulting in the screen showing strange patterns instead of a plain black picture.
This app will create a lossless black picture, you shouldn't see any difference between screen on of off.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joeleveque.backlightbleedtest
I don't see any light bleed for that. However, it's just weird because when I did a screenshot and open it on my stock gallery app, it again showed a blotchy black. But when I open in Google Photos, it is completely black. Also, watching this completely black video in YouTube also shows blotchy black. https://youtu.be/XIMLoLxmTDw
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kenobijim said:
Are you noticing that when you use Stock Gallery, Netflix, and YouTube apps, rendering a completely black picture or video doesn't show pure black. Rather it looks like a blotchy black. It bother me so much since this is an AMOLED screen and I know that when an OLED panel renders black it shuts off every pixel rendering black so a plain black image should turn off the screen completely. But in my case I see blotchy black screen and this is only noticeable when you're in a dark room. Please tell me you also experience this. Otherwise, can somebody explain why? Do I have a defective screen? Thanks!
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I don't think this is a screen issue. I've used Mate 10 pro for 2 months and haven't come across any issue. And I found the mate 10 pro screen is very solid. If you want to replace it, that would be very difficult.
kenobijim said:
I don't see any light bleed for that. However, it's just weird because when I did a screenshot and open it on my stock gallery app, it again showed a blotchy black. But when I open in Google Photos, it is completely black. Also, watching this completely black video in YouTube also shows blotchy black.
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Just tried this on mine and it's just black..no blotchiness or bleed
Voipboy01 said:
Just tried this on mine and it's just black..no blotchiness or bleed
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Did you try it at minimum brightness in a dark room?
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I mean maximum brightness in a complete dark environment.
I've been trying to screen record a video from an app but all the apps that i've used only record the sound and a black screen or just a black screen with a play button on it. I tried the simulate secondary displays mode in developer options but still the same thing and just a bunch of tiny screens pop up in front of the video and still with a black screen when I record. Is there anyone here who can help with this? I've tried on my phone and tablet and get the same result with all the app i've tried.
Hi all, I've had my Mate 20 Pro for a few months now and I've slowly started noticing this weird sort of bleeding that seems to happen on my screen when I'm scrolling or switching between apps, particularly noticeable with apps that have dark mode on.
For an even longer time I've noticed that when on the official Reddit app (dark mode) for example and I'm scrolling down, the text becomes very fuzzy looking and the top of the text looks darker than the rest (or bottom if scrolling up).
Now the same thing is happening to images and app screenshot when switching between apps. It's become very noticeable now. Has anyone else experienced this?
I should note that this is on the lowest brightness settings. When I turn my brightness all the way up, I can't seem to notice it as much. My eye will only catch a split second of bleeding when scrolling past images.
I've attached a screen recording here gfycat . com/happyunhealthybeardedcollie but I'm unsure if you will able to see it or not. (I'm unable to post outside links or upload as I am a new user, apologies for the inconvenience).
Thanks.
Pretty sure it's OLED smearing
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Pretty sure it's OLED smearing
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... and it is normal on this type of screens. Black color on these screens means powered off pixels. The time needed for these pixels to turn on or turn off during scrolling yields that smearing effect. This is the price we are paying for having screens that display black as it should be, i.e. total absolut black.