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black screen of death (for me)

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lancelot2k5

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Hey, after a while of playing the amazing game called minecraft, im treated with a black screen, i call it the black screen of death. Its really pissing me off and i need help fixing it now. Dose anyone here had the same experience and can help me?

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-lancelot2k5
 
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If this is happening every once and a while when you're playing there are a few things you can try. What settings are you running minecraft on and do you have the most recent java?
 
Im running minecraft as a window. Oh and i re-downloaded java like late last month
 
well first we need to know your os and whether its 64bit or 32 bit are you using any mods there are many thing that can cause this we need more info
 
i use windows vista and im not using any mods ether but i dont know how the 64 / 32 bit thing works
 
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Just as a side note, some people crash a lot when using far view distance. If you're running that, try normal and see how that works.
 
seattlewil said:
Just as a side note, some people crash a lot when using far view distance. If you're running that, try normal and see how that works.
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This is usually the issue for me as well. Under 'Video Settings', set 'Render Distance' to Normal and 'Limit Framerate' to ON.
 
Back in beta 1, I used to get the black screen crash fairly regularly (I'm running XP SP3 32 bit). Anyway, I tried a variety of fixes and one of them could have worked as I don't seem to get the crash anymore so in case they're of any use here's what I did:

- Tried reinstalling MC (this didn't seem to have any effect on black screen frequency)
- Tried reinstalling Java (this didn't seem to have any effect either)
- As seattle and static have already suggested, I changed my draw distance from far to normal
- I changed my graphics from fancy to fast (I've since changed back to fancy with no issues)
- Tried running minecraft in compatibility mode for XP SP2 (as you're on vista this probably isn't any use)
- For a while every time Minecraft started I would immediately use task manager to set the priority of javaw.exe to high (its important not to set it to real time!)

Anyway hope this helps, as someone with experience of the black screen myself I can understand how annoying it is.
 
If you haven't already run minecraft as an administrator also as that can sometimes cause problems in Vista and 7. (much easier to set that in properties instead of right clicking and running as admin.)
 
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