Black Mesa Crashes My Pc

Black Mesa Archive In-game Issues
#1

Hello!
I am having some problems with Black Mesa. I bought the game this winter sale about a week ago because I’ve heard so much good things about it. I installed it and when I start it everything works fine in start menu. I clicked New Game and started the game. The text Black Mesa came up and then I can control my character. But after like 5 seconds both my monitors turns off. It happens everytime :frowning:

I there a way to solve this issue? Because I really want to play Black Mesa.

Thanks :slight_smile:

Specs:

► GTX 970
► AMD FX-8320 Stock Settings
► Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
► Gigabyte FX990-UD3
► 16 GB RAM
► 750W GOLD PSU
► 500GB Samsung SSD
► 1TB HDD

#2

sounds like a stability issue with your PC. What are the temps while playing?

#3

It depends on which game. GTA V and ArmA 3 around 30-40 C.
Stability issue with temps cannot the be the problem with Black Mesa since I cannot even proceed from the first mission.
I don’t know what could create instability if that’s the case.

#4

bump.

#5

30-40°C what? CPU? GPU? mainboard?

Maybe run HWMonitor. Maybe it’s your PSU, maybe your RAM, maybe your HDD. Honestly it’s hard to tell why a system gets instable.

Also, now that I reread your post, do only the monitors turn off and the PC keeps running? Or what exactly happens?

#6

When I start the first mission in Black Mesa or playing multiplayer both my monitors turn off. My pc is still running since I could still hear Spotify. My CPU gets 30-40 while playing ArmA 3 or GTA V. Black Mesa I don’t know since I cannot monitor that. EVERY other game works just fine except for Black Mesa. I have new RAM. No problems playing any other games.
HWMonitor.txt (53.6 KB)

#7

so it doesn’t crash your PC at all. It’s probably just crashing your graphics driver then. Well, not much you can do about that I guess, except maybe trying another driver version.

#8

Tried it again. Now I didn’t hear sound or anything but my computer were still on. I haven’t downgraded any drivers yet.

#9

bump again. Really need to solve this otherwise I payed for the game unnecessarily :frowning:

#10

What operating system are you running?

Have you downloaded the latest graphics drivers for your card?

#11

Are you running Windows 10, if so you might need to install DirectX 9.0. link to thread https://steamcommunity.com/app/362890/discussions/0/492379159718615839/#c492379439672551208
Other things to try;

  1. Restart the computer. (shutting down and turning back on is not the same in W8/10)
  2. Next, Verify the game cache. if you don’t know how, ask.
#12

I am running Windows 10. I do have the latest drivers.

#13

Try this
https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Black_Mesa

#14

Tried it, didn’t work.

#15

Have you tried running BM in compatibility mode?

  1. Locate the bms.exe in …\Steam\steamapps\common\Black Mesa\
  2. Right click on the .exe and select Properties.
  3. In the Properties dialog box, click the Compatibility tab and tick the box labelled "Run this program in compatibility mode for:".
  4. Select a Windows version from the drop-down list (for example Windows 7).
#16

Yes I have. The game doesn’t boot up that way. When I click on the bms.exe it shows up on Steam that I’ve started Black Mesa. Then it closes. So the process opens but the closes.
Also, I have had the same problems with mw2, mw3, black ops 2 (not that I play those games but I tried games in my steam library). I think it’s some problem with DirectX 9 but that could be wrong.

#17

What monitors do you have, perhaps it is going into an odd screen resolution.

#18

Don’t know if this will help, but another thing you could try is to disable the Steam Overlay for Black Mesa (if you haven’t tried that already) (right click Black Mesa in the Steam Library and click Properties, then untick the checkbox next to “Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game”, under the General tab).

Also, try running the game as Administrator.

#19

2 ASUS 60Hz 1920x1080.

  1. ASUS VX238
  2. ASUS VW228
#20

Okay, right click on black mesa in steam and then click properties, then click set launch options and then copy this setting into the box. -full -w 1920 -h 1080

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