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[kavita038]

Hello everyone, My PC's configuration is: OS - Windows Vista ultimate RAM - 4GB Processor - i3 Graphics driver - ATI Radeon HD 5540 , 1GB DDR3, manufactured by ASUS VMware Player 4.0.3 When VMware player is started and I played tablet simulator (2.0.1), only Black Screen appears after 'starting screen' option. No icons are shown there, It seems not working, completely Black screen is appearing. I searched at forums and found suggestions like install latest graphics drivers , set the vmware priority high , set core processors 2 in vmware, change the resolution of display to 1024*768. I tried with older versions of vmware like 3.0.0, 3.0.1 , 3.1.5 etc. But nothing worked. I need your help, How to resolve this problem to start tablet simulator? Pls HELP.. Thanks

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[kavita038]

I am extremely sorry for that.

I did that because I thought, same issue could occur in diff-2 platforms and anyone from any platform , could help in this.

I want to port my android application in playbook but tablet simulator of Android Runtime is not starting , only Black Screen opened. Should I create a thread in Android Runtime development platform?

Anyone could help me please....

[borceg]

Use drivers directly from ati/amd website. Drivers from asus won't work.

If again does not work, press enter before it shows black screen and try to start it(simulator) in "Safe mode"

[daryl_martin]

Can you confirm if the simulator is booting up to a black screen of if the android runtime is launching your application into a black screen?  If the simulator is booting to a black screen then please reboot into safe mode or try the 2.0.1/2.0.0 simulators if you're working on BB10. 

Note:  Future releases of the playbook simulator will have android player backed with GPU hardware instead of software based, which will give you a huge performance boost. 

[BryceMcMurter · Accepted solution]

hey kavita

I see that you have changed the display resolution to 1024*768. I have tried that same thing in the past and had the exact same issue that you are having. I suggest that you go back into the display options and set it back to "use host setting for monitors" and see if that helps. 

Also make sure that you choose File>Player Preferences>Power off the virtual machine

This will make sure that the changes you are making are actually being made. Once you have the simulator working properly you can change this setting to suspend so that you dont have to wait as long during startup.

hope this helps!

Bryce

[kavita038]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

Now playbook simulator is working fine.

[npixo]

Hi, same problem here.

I tried everything. new Graphiccards drivers, increasing ram etc.

Simulator 2.0 runs in Safe Mode fine, in regular mode it just shows a black screen.

For testing purposes i installed NDK + Simulator 1.0.8 . Everything just works fine here.

I can compile my projects, upload them to the simulator etc. 

Now i need it get done for Simulator 2

Thx for your help,

npixo

[npixo]

Ok. i found a solution. i installed an older version of the VMPlayer found here

VMware-player-4.0.4-744019.exe

now everything works just fine also with simulator 2 and NDK 2.1 beta

Greets,

npixo