How to fix sonic adventure on steam and windows 8

[quakehollow]

I have had difficulty running sonic adventure on steam since I purchased it, but eventually I managed to find a work around.
This post is to help anyone else having trouble, with the steam version of sonic adventure simply showing a black screen.
Note this might not applly to your PC but could be useful anyway.


Run Asus Boot Setting from desktop, and click direct bios.

when you are in the bios press F7

Go to advanced

system agent configeration

graphics configuration

primary display

IGPU to run sonic adventure on steam

PCEI to get back to normal

it is F10 to save and exit.

My normal resoultion is 1280 x 1024

Anyway hope this helps anyone else suffering from steam's black screen problem with sonic adventure.

EDIT:

I also purchased sonic and Sega all stars racing, and I ran into frame rate issues, I fixed them by following the advise of this thread on steam:
forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2681565

I hope that helps anybody else having frame rate issues with that game.

Edit again.

You might also run into saving problems with sonic and sega all stars racing, please see this video to fix that problem.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV37hriVswM