running game displays a blank screen and title screen music

[anfrey]

Glad to do it. 

FYI: Running that DirectX web installer WILL NOT reinstall DirectX if you already have the latest version.  You've got to trick it before it will actually do anything.

please post these steps. i would be very interested in being able to use 8.x drivers instead of 6.14...

[wuff]

Ok.  Few things first...

1.) If you do not already have DirectX 9.0c, these steps are unnecessary.  Just run the DirectX web installer and your DirectX will be upgraded.

2.) These steps involve editing your registry. If you are not comfortable in the registry, do not play around in there, you could seriously mess up your computer.

3.) Make sure your video drivers are the version you want them to be (looking at you anfrey).  I haven't tested upgrading the drivers after these steps.  I'm sure it'd work fine, but no need to tempt fate.

Here are the steps to force a reinstall of DirectX 9.0c:

1.) Download the DirectX web installer, but do not run it yet.
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en)

2.) Go to Start > Run.  Then type in "regedit" (without the quotes) and click ok.

3.) Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/DirectX

4.) Change the "Version" key from 4.09.00.0904 to 4.08.01.0810  (This tricks the computer into thinking you have 8.1 installed instead of 9.0c)

5.) Exit out of the Registry Editor

6.) Run the Web Installer.  It will act like it is updating your DirectX, but it isn't.  Let it finish lying to you, then click out of it.  (Although this step my seem useless, the web installer is downloading the actual installer, it just doesn't use it for some reason)

7.) Open My Computer and go to C:\Documents and Settings\[Your Username Here]\Local Settings\Temp

8.) In that folder there should be a file called "DXSETUP.EXE"  This is the actual installer. If you cannot find it, do a search for that file name.  It'll be in a temp folder somewhere.

9.) Run DXSETUP.EXE and let it do its thing

10.) Restart your computer

11.) Start up Steam and Enjoy AudioSurf!  Yay!

If you have any questions or need something clarified, let me know.  Promise I won't bite.

-Wuff

[RaitzeR]

I'm sorry to say, but that force reinstalling didn't work for me :/. BUT I have another solution

1)     http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/directx.html download that file
2)     put those files to whatever folder you want. I put them to c:\Directx
3)     Then extract all of those zip/rar files to that same folder
4)     Then select ALL of those .inf files, by ctrl clicking them all, then press right mouse button and press "install". Then it will install all of those files to your comp manually, so it WILL install them over the old files, without scanning if you have 9.0c already or not.
5)     It asks you to reboot your comp, do that
6)     Your 9.0c is now installed, enjoy your audiosurf

[wuff]

I'm sorry to say, but that force reinstalling didn't work for me :/. BUT I have another solution

1)     http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/directx.html download that file
2)     put those files to whatever folder you want. I put them to c:\Directx
3)     Then extract all of those zip/rar files to that same folder
4)     Then select ALL of those .inf files, by ctrl clicking them all, then press right mouse button and press "install". Then it will install all of those files to your comp manually, so it WILL install them over the old files, without scanning if you have 9.0c already or not.
5)     It asks you to reboot your comp, do that
6)     Your 9.0c is now installed, enjoy your audiosurf

Wow, that's a lot easier than what I did.  Try this method first, [insert name of person who is having issues].

[birra26]

I get a white screen also, however mine doesnt play any music at all. I'm trying to run this on Parallels, which is basically a different version of Mac Bootcamp.

[Passerby]

well actually parallels is nothing like boot camp, boot camp allows you to run alternate operating system directly on you mac like a native operating system parallels runs the other operating system right inside your main operating system on something called a virtual machine and because of this the guest OS is'nt directly accessing your hardware so it is not able to get full hardware acceleration from your video card which cause a performance drop for games then you get an or huge performance hit because your sharing your processing power and ram between 2 full operating system at once.

so for running Audio-Surf your better of making your mac a duel boot using boot camp