In one of my custom technical modes, the view port is black when I open the file until I pan or zoom the view then it turns white which is what I have it set to. And the view port also turns black when I edit a material.
I’ve attached the view ini file.
Win vista 32 bit
GeForce 8600M GS
RM
Jeff will have a better answer than me on this. I think the problem is that you are trying to use the technical pipeline with all of these customizations. If you switch the pipeline to OpenGL, then you will probably get better results.