Humm. These black screen problems are happening at completely random times. Seems to me that if it was a problem within Direct X problem it should be repeatable which it is not. Trying to replicate the quasi crash I found that when I rebooted my system after trying to run the game with me working on...

Tutorial (2nd part) display goes all black. According to task manager the program is still running, and I can hear the background music.

This going to be a directX issue also? I am running 11.0 Windows 8.1.

Have attempted to install 9.0c but will not allow me to as I have a later version.