Solid white screen on level load

[6742b2b56bbabFringe]

After installing SSTool version 3.2, the game starts up normally and even runs videos without a problem, which I'd given up on trying to work in the Dark engine.  However, after clicking New Game and loading the first level, my screen turns solid white.

It isn't crashing.  I can ESC back to the menu just fine.  The game is actually running; the ambient sounds are playing fine, and if I hold 'W' to move forward, I get the "Welcome to the Ramsey UNN Recruiting Center" speech.  I just can't see anything.

Searching hasn't revealed anyone else with this problem.  Is this something specific to my PC, or could it be somehow caused by the most recent update?

[6742b2b56bdd1Kolya]

It's a ddfix setting we haven't figured out a universally working value for.

In ddfix.ini find:
OverlayColourKey=0xffffff
Try replacing it with: OverlayColourKey=0xf81f
Or try commenting out the setting by prefixing it with a semicolon.

[6742b2b56bed6Kolya]

Okay, I figured out the problem, see the new SS2Tool release 3.3. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[6742b2b56bfc2Fringe]

You are a gentleman and a scholar    Many thanks!

[6742b2b56c0ecKolya]

An even better solution - frameratewise - would be to comment out these two settings:

;UseSysMemOverlay=2
;OverlayColourKey=0xf81f

This should work on most systems, but older Intel chipsets. We're still trying to find out the perfect settings, you see.