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    SZ: Occasional black screen problem with games

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Speckled Jim, Mar 24, 2006.

  1. Speckled Jim

    Speckled Jim Notebook Guru

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    A few times now, I've had a problem when launching games where I get a frame or few rendering, and then a black screen with a single white pixel at the top left. The machine is still running normally in the background, including the game itself apparently, but I can't get rid of this black overlay without putting the machine into standby and waking it up again.

    Looks like a driver problem - anyone else had it? Happens with both the latest forceware drivers and the Sony-supplied ones, although it seems to happen less often with the latter.
     
    Speckled Jim, Mar 24, 2006
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