Lag (black screen) while loading
J. M. Pescado:
My guess is that your problem is hardware. Some piece of hardware is damaged and not running as quickly as it should be, forcing the computer to wait for it. Aging hard drives sometimes develop bad spots which take longer to read, and if your data is in one of those spots, it may suddenly develop hiccups as it reads. This is generally a precursor to total drive failure. Have that checked out.
Nova:
Hmm. I loaded the game on my new computer a few months ago, and the problem started happening shortly after install. If the comp is already conking out, watch out for a raging lunatic.
leaths:
Are you running Vista? I have the same problem. On my old computer (with XP) the game started up fine. When I got my new PC (with Vista), the first few times the game loaded quickly, then suddenly started getting that black screen before loading. It doesn't last long for me--five seconds tops--but it is annoying. I could never figure out what caused it, nor could I ever make it stop--although it doesn't happen in windowed mode. I just chalked it up either to a quirk in Vista or my graphics card.
Nova:
Yup, Vista for me. When I load the game in windowed mode, the black screen doesn't appear. However, the game just sits in the background (doing nothing) for up to a minute before the window will pop up on the screen. Once the window pops up, first the EA logo flashes, then the regular loading screen appears.
GelatinousSubstance:
I had two similar problems with an AMD quad core and an nVidia Video card.
With Vista, the screen would go white (which bothers me more because I have sensitive eyes). It does the same thing on my daughter's laptop.
When I switched over to windows 7, the screen goes black for the first bit now, which it also does on my husband's computer.
All these systems are fairly new (less than a year old), and all have AMD CPUs (with different numbers of cores) and nVidia video cards of varying models (if that helps to find a common denominator).
My best guess is that it's either hardware or driver (or both) related.
Other than it being annoying to the user though, there isn't much to worry about.
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