Lod-Viewer screen black

[Sokol]

Hi, lod-viewer shows a black screen, not the familiar menue etc.. however, the menue is available and clickable behind that black veil - but nothing can be seen.

i checked "settings", background color is white.

any idea?

cheers Sokol

[mue]

Did it work before? Have you changed or updated your graphic card configuration/driver recently? BTW, what are your system specs?

[Sokol]

hi, yes, it did work before - and stills does so on my secondary notebook. it does not work on my main notebook. i do not have specs at hand right now, but it is a reasonable powerful device. both run on windows11.

[mue]

Does your main notebook has two graphic adapters, i.e. an integrated and a discrete one? If yes, you can try to select the discrete graphic adapter when running the lodviewer.

[Sokol]

sorry for the delay  

here are my specs:

[PC-Spezifikationen]
====================================================================================
OS:         Windows 11 Home 64-bit (Build 26200)
Modell:     HP OMEN by HP Laptop 16-c0xxx (BIOS: F.25)
CPU:        AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics (16 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
RAM:        16384MB (16 GB)
====================================================================================
iGPU:       AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
            -> Speicher: 8352 MB (495 MB Dediziert / 7856 MB Shared)
            -> Treiber: 31.0.21925.1001 (20.05.2026)
            -> Monitor: 2560 x 1440 (32 bit) (165Hz)
====================================================================================
dGPU:       NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU
            -> Speicher: 15874 MB (8018 MB / 8 GB VRAM Dediziert)
            -> Treiber: 32.0.15.9282
====================================================================================

 

• the issue seems to be a general one since an fsx-model-viewer shows a black screen as well on my gaming-laptop andd works fine on the small one.
• as for microsoft net.framework:  4.8.1 is installed. as said before: the lod-viewer runs flawlessly on my "smaller" notebook, same OS, same framework.
• how do i force lodviewer to use a specific GPU?
• i do have access to the menue of the lodviewer, albeit only when hovering the mouse over the tabs.

any idea: ?

thanks, 

Sokol

[Sokol]

solved with the help of AI - forcing lodviewer to use dGPU and disabling optimization for windowed games did the trick. thanks