I just bought it last night and played it for about 4 hours. I closed it and when I came back to play it I have no display. The screen goes black, I can hear the into but nothing ever shows up. I've tried pressing escape to take me to the menu incase it was the intro vid but no luck there either. I did a system restore to before I installed the game, reinstalled it and no change. I went back to an older driver, back to the current Nvidia 295.73 or what ever it is and still no change there either. I got it through Steam and all my other Steam games work so I don't think it is that but just to be safe I erased Steam and reinstalled; redownloading the game again but still just a black screen. Anyone know what to do? I sent an email to their support but from what I've seen browsing around they aren't too good about responding so anything you can offer would be great.
Cities XL 2012 no display problem...
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G80FTW
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If you used Steam to install the game it will save your resolution settings and the only way to change them back is through the game. You can reinstall everything as much as you want and it wont work. Iv been there. That is, if for some reason your resolution got changed in the game to an unsupported timing/resolution by your monitor.
Try going into the game properties in steam and set some launch options:
-dx80 <this will force the game to use DX8 (if the game supports it, which it might Im not sure) and that will reset all the graphical settings.
You can also find the exe within the Steam folder and set properties for it to open up in 640x480 (safe mode basically). You can also custom set resolutions in the launch options in Steam, but I have never had them work at all.
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