Yesterday I wanted to log onto Runescape, and got a little bothered when all I could get was a black screen when I selected my world. I didn't get any loading screen, it just got to the URL where you log in, and nothing else happened.

I am using Firefox, and I have been playing for years with it, I haven't updated Java in a while, so I thought I would update it to see if the game would work then. I uninstalled Java and tried to log in, and it told me to install Java. So I tried both an old version and the newest version. The message was gone, but it was black again.

I had been running Firefox 2, so I upgraded to Firefox 3, in hope of that solving my problem, which it didn't. So now I'm sitting here trying to log into a black screen.

I can also hear the login-screen music, but that's about it.

Does anyone know how I could possibly solve this?

Do you have anything like a firewall on your computer?

you could get a new computer .

I do not have any kind of firewall I do not know of atleast, and I have not turned one on lately.

i sometimes have this problem
go to the runescape homepage and hover your mouse over play now and select the java options window
change it to what'ever the other option is and try again. best off luck

Tried Internet Explorer? Or you could try using their client.

i thought this was going to be something racist

have you tried through swiftkit?

i agree with spire. you should try using Swiftkit.

Or try Google Chrome

Or instead of going to the extreme have you tried the basic solutions first like I dunno... clearing your cache?

Somehow it suddenly worked. And yes, I did try both Chrome, their client, Internet Explorer and everything I could find on my computer.

But now it's back and working, so yay, and thanks to anyone who tried to help.