Black Screen After Intro

[664a13e1797c8John Jangles]

I currently have several mods installed and have been tooling around trying to get them to even load.
To note: I am using GOG, I have followed the Newbie setup guide, and have all the tools installed (to my knowledge)
 My problems are as follows:
1.) Upon loading my mods, and after selecting start game and finishing the intro the screen goes black and does not respond.

2.) When trying to install the mods from the archives my mod manager had stopped responding several times (specifically during SECMOD, obj, SHTUP, and generally anything over a few MBs). Thus I closed out of it. Upon loading it back in they are listed; I am unsure if they are actually loaded though, as further attempts to deactivate and uninstall them yield the same results.

3.) I have loaded it without SECMOD installed and avoided the black screen post intro; however, none of the other mods seem to be working (I have SHTUP installed and activated and none of the enhancements are there).

4.) I have currently not tried to do anything else except repeat the process of deactivating and reordering my list, sadly to no avail (please send help).

My list is as follows:
1. Vurts Flora Overhaul
2. Vurt Goo
3. Tacticool
4. AccFam
5. Vintage song remake
6. New quest Notifier
7. SHTUP
8. Secmod_Rebirth_REalSG
9. SECMOD
10. obj_fixes
11. Rebirth (MAIN)

[664a13e17999bvoodoo47]

post your ss2bmm.log (in your SS2 folder). any warnings in the manager window?

try to extract the mods manually one by one, starting with Secmod (which should have the lowest priority, followed by obj_fixes and SHTUP-ND).

[664a13e179be4John Jangles]

Thanks for the response I'll try that and post the results. Here is the log.

Log:

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Mods Setup Log - SS2 Blue Mod Manager 1.15
Created: 18 October 2020, 21:17:09

ss2.exe version: 2.48
Mods folder path: C:\Users\14693\Desktop\Recreation & Music\Gaming Software\System Shock 2\System Shock 2\DMM\

#  Name                            Status    Type
-  ------------------------------  --------  ----------------
   AccFam_20                       Inactive  Replacement
   obj_fixes_v12                   Inactive  Replacement, DML
   RealSG_Rebirth_1.04             Inactive  Replacement, DML
   SCP_beta4                       Inactive  Gamesys
   SECMOD3.2.4a                    Inactive  Replacement, DML
   Secmod_Rebirth_RealSG_1.01      Inactive  DML
   ss2_new_quest_notifier          Inactive  DML
   ss2_quest_note_notifier         Inactive  DML
   SS2_Rebirth_v05b                Inactive  Replacement, DML
   SS2_Vaxquis_VintageSongRemake   Inactive  Replacement
   Tacticool_complete_v1.05        Inactive  Replacement
   Vurt's SS2 Flora Overhaul 1.0k  Inactive  Replacement, DML
   Vurt-Goo-(GrubPodSlimey-1.04)   Inactive  Replacement

mod_path .\patch_ext

movie_path .\cutscenes+.\Data\cutscenes

Listing of mods folder content:

AccFam_20\
Fam\
Obj\
readme.html
obj_fixes_v12\
obj\
gamesys.dml
readme obj fix.txt
RealSG_Rebirth_1.04\
mesh\
gamesys.dml
readme.txt
shock2.gam.dml
SCP_beta4\
bitmap\
book\
fam\
iface\
intrface\
material\
mesh\
mschema\
obj\
objicon\
snd\
snd2\
adaob_changes.txt
command1.mis
command2.mis
earth.mis
eng1.mis
eng2.mis
hydro1.mis
HYDRO2.DIF
hydro2.mis
SCP_beta4_readme.pdf
shockscp.gam
SHODAN.DIF
SECMOD3.2.4a\
bitmap\
fam\
IFACE\
intrface\
mesh\
motions\
obj\
objicon\
schema\
snd\
sq_scripts\
strings\
Citadel.osm
COMMAND1.MIS
command1.mis.dml
command2.mis
command2.mis.dml
earth.mis
earth.mis.dml
eng1.mis
eng1.mis.dml
ENG2.MIS
eng2.mis.dml
goodies.rar
hierarchy_export.txt
HYDRO1.MIS
hydro1.mis.dml
HYDRO2.MIS
HYDRO3.MIS
hydro3.mis.dml
HYDRO4.mis
MANY.MIS
many.mis.dml
MEDSCI1.mis
medsci1.mis.dml
MEDSCI2.MIS
medsci2.mis.dml
motiondb.bin
NVScript.html
NVScript.osm
Secmod_Rebirth_RealSG_1.01\
medsci1.mis.dml
medsci2.mis.dml
readme.txt
rick1.mis.dml
shocksec.gam.dml
ss2_new_quest_notifier\
sq_scripts\
gamesys.dml
readme.txt
ss2_quest_note_notifier\
sq_scripts\
gamesys.dml
readme.txt
SS2_Rebirth_v05b\
mesh\
obj\
earth.mis.dml
eng1.mis.dml
eng2.mis.dml
hydro1.mis.dml
SS2_Vaxquis_VintageSongRemake\
snd\
Tacticool_complete_v1.05\
mesh\
obj\
vanilla_pistol\
Readme.txt
Vurt's SS2 Flora Overhaul 1.0k\
obj\
earth.mis.dml
eng1.mis.dml
gamesys.dml
hydro1.mis.dml
hydro2.mis.dml
medsci1.mis.dml
medsci2.mis.dml
ops2.mis.dml
rec2.mis.dml
rec3.mis.dml
Vurt-Goo-(GrubPodSlimey-1.04)\
obj\

[664a13e179ce3John Jangles]

By manually do you mean using an extraction program to put it directly into the main folder for SS2 (I.E. 7Zip or Winrar)?

[664a13e179de3voodoo47]

nope, it means extracting the contents of the archive (ex. Secmod3.7z) into a folder (ex. SECMOD3) and then moving the folder inside \SS2\DMM\ folder. anyway, your mods actually aren't active - once they are loaded, you need to click "activate" for each mod that you want active.

[664a13e179ecfJohn Jangles]

Thanks for your help I did what you said and rearranged the load order and it works now! No more black screening after the intro and all of the mods are activated ( I did have to tweak the load order again).

[664a13e179facvoodoo47]

those issues while extracting are concerning though, as you definitely want to have all of the files from the archives extracted properly.

would recommend double checking on that.

[664a13e17a114John Jangles]

So far so good. I'm beginning to think it was an installation error (or user error more likely); I am now about 3-4 hours in and all of the mods are working including SECMOD and Rebirth. I have not had any issues so far as I am now in Hydro and have yet to encounter any texture glitches, game breaking bugs, or crashes of any kind. The mod manager chugged for a bit on installation of the mods and as I said it was not responding at several points but it did install all of them. I'm using a dual core laptop so I am not ruling out hardware limitations either.

Will post again if I encounter any other bugs or issues. Apart from that thanks for the help friend!