Dead Space 3 not responding

[Rakhalar]

Every time i try to launch the game the screen goes black and it crashed my dead space, saying it is not responding. Could somebody help me?

[h1278630057]

Why Dead Space 3 Entered the game has been black, the game no response?How do i do？

[tomthak]

I found solution: DAEMON TOOLS client in tray and Adobe cloud client in tray and Open Office client in tray.. I switched them off and it suddenly came from the minimized version to full screen and everything works fine.. so one of the clinets in tray is wrong and make problems.

[cwpinel]

The game wants to start in 1280 X 768. To get the game running:

1. Change your monitors resolution to 1280 x 768.

2. Start the game and go into settings. 

3. Change display mode from Fullscreen to Window mode.

4. Change your monitors resolution back to a higher resolution (while the game is running in window mode)

5. Change the resolution in the game to a higher resolution (in my case it was 1920 x 1080) and then change it back to fullscreen mode.

The game should now start properly

[myth182]

^ Didn't work for me ... still can not start this dang game up ....

Graphics Card Manufacturer Powered by AMD
Graphics Chipset AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
Resolution 1920 x 1080 x 60 hertz

Graphics Bus Capability PCI Express 2.0
Maximum Bus Setting PCI Express 2.0 x16

BIOS Date 2012/03/28
Memory Size 2048 MB
Memory Type GDDR5
Core Clock in MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Clock in MHz 1200 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth in GByte/s 153.6 GByte/s

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB

Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor, 3612 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 6 Logical Processor(s)
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601

[Sir_Dafticus]

Are you using Windows 8?  If so, then try running Dead Space 3 in Windows 7 compatibility mode.  That worked for me.

Edit:  This worked exactly one time, then it went right back to the black screen on startup problem.  I have no idea what the deal with that is.  But I have found a solutin that seems to work.  Go to C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\EA Games\Dead Space 3 and edit system.txt so that window.height and window.width match your actual screen resolution.  That got it working for me.

[Bradley2142]

Hello Sir_Dafticus,

I tried everything you said in your message, as well as what others players said but nothing works for me.

I bought Dead Space 3 two days ago. I received a key product and put it on Origin.

But all players seem to have the famous "system.txt" file... But I don't have it !

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\EA Games\Dead Space 3 --> this folder is unfortunately empty, so I can't change the settings concerning the screen resolution...

Is it possible to get this file ?

Can you help me please ? Or anyone else ? I guess I'm not the only player (who bought the game) who doesn't have the file "system.txt"

Thanks in advance for your help =)

PS : my configuration : 

Intel Core i7-3615QM - 2.30 GHz
4.00 GB Ram
Windows 7 32-bit
Nvidia GT 650M

[Sir_Dafticus]

So you found the correct folder but it was empty?  That's weird.  You did replace "username" with your actual username, right?  Anyway, I'll paste the contents of my system.txt file here, so you can try creating it yourself if you want to.  I have no idea if that will work though.

Audio.MusicVol = 1.00000000
Audio.Output = 0
Audio.SFXVol = 1.00000000
Audio.Subtitles = false
Audio.VoiceVol = 1.00000000
Misc.MaxJobThreads = -1
QualityOptions.AAMode = 1
QualityOptions.ActorMotionBlur = true
QualityOptions.Aniso = 2
QualityOptions.Bloom = true
QualityOptions.Blur = true
QualityOptions.ConfigType = 5
QualityOptions.Decals = true
QualityOptions.Distortion = true
QualityOptions.DoF = true
QualityOptions.Flare = true
QualityOptions.Glow = true
QualityOptions.HighLightQuality = true
QualityOptions.LightingAccQuality = true
QualityOptions.ManipColor = true
QualityOptions.ShaderQuality = 1
QualityOptions.Shadows = 2
QualityOptions.SSAO2 = false
QualityOptions.SSR = true
Window.Border = true
Window.FOVScale = 1.00000000
Window.Fullscreen = true
Window.Gamma = 0.70999980
Window.Height = 1024
Window.Hz = 60
Window.Left = 0
Window.State = 3
Window.Top = 0
Window.TopMost = false
Window.VSync = true
Window.WideScreen = false
Window.Width = 1280

[Bradley2142]

Thank you for the file ! =)

I can now change the resolution but the game still doesn't work... I"ve change the resolution to 1440x900 and put off the "V-sync" but still doesn't work

Are there any other files in this folder please ? (except the "system.txt" file)


Thanks again for your help ! I'm sure a solution exist to solve this problem

[Sir_Dafticus]

There is one other file in that folder.  It's general.txt.

Control.ControllerSensitivity = 2
Control.InvertX = false
Control.InvertYAim = false
Control.InvertYFlight = false
Control.MouseSensitivity = 0.50000000
Game.AimingPosition = true
Game.PartnerLocator = false
Game.Shock = true
Game.SkipTutorials = false