Yes, I did search. Yes there are tons of topics about this. Unfortunately they all describe a different black screen.
There are topics about black screen in browsers and Topics about black screens on login, but no topics about black screens while playing.
Every single one of my friends and I have this problem, we are using OS's ranging from xp 32bit, xp 64bit, W7 32bit, W7 64bit, and W7GE 64bit.
While playing, at no specific interval, but happens more often when opening a menu (like inventory, or crafting table, or chest, or fernace). Our screen will turn black. At this point the client has crashed and frozen without error, we must force close and relaunch.
This has been happening since alpha 1.2.6 and is still happening on beta 1.1_02
We have tried to allocate more memory to minecraft.exe, it does work (using F3 in game we can see more memory allocation). Unfortunately, if we set it to 1.5G then it black screens EVERY TIME after 1 minute of play. Set it to 1.75G and the game freezes on the Mojang logo. Set it to 2G or higher and java fails to create VM. We all have 4-16G of memory. We tried it on everyones machine, it does the same thing on everyones machine.
While playing, memory usage never rises above 200M
There are topics about black screen in browsers and Topics about black screens on login, but no topics about black screens while playing.
Every single one of my friends and I have this problem, we are using OS's ranging from xp 32bit, xp 64bit, W7 32bit, W7 64bit, and W7GE 64bit.
While playing, at no specific interval, but happens more often when opening a menu (like inventory, or crafting table, or chest, or fernace). Our screen will turn black. At this point the client has crashed and frozen without error, we must force close and relaunch.
This has been happening since alpha 1.2.6 and is still happening on beta 1.1_02
We have tried to allocate more memory to minecraft.exe, it does work (using F3 in game we can see more memory allocation). Unfortunately, if we set it to 1.5G then it black screens EVERY TIME after 1 minute of play. Set it to 1.75G and the game freezes on the Mojang logo. Set it to 2G or higher and java fails to create VM. We all have 4-16G of memory. We tried it on everyones machine, it does the same thing on everyones machine.
While playing, memory usage never rises above 200M
Any help would be greatly appreciated.