Black Screen Easy Fix

[Bezobrznic]

Not sure if it is 100% fix for everyone, but in case of a few people we tested, this seems to work:

https://youtu.be/NIAOQSD8hos
Project Zomboid Build 42 Black Screen Easy Fix

Hope this helps some of you having issues

[Joseba de Carglass]

It didn’t work for me🤷🏻‍♂️

[Bezobrznic]

Originally posted by Joseba de Carglass:

It didn’t work for me🤷🏻‍♂️

Do you have a sound of lobby menu when loading after a minute? or do you just have a Black Screen and your computer ends up been locked and does't respond to Alt F4 and Alt Ctrl Del to call a task manager?

[TeX KilleR]

Originally posted by Bezobrznic:

Originally posted by Joseba de Carglass:

It didn’t work for me🤷🏻‍♂️

Do you have a sound of lobby menu when loading after a minute? or do you just have a Black Screen and your computer ends up been locked and does't respond to Alt F4 and Alt Ctrl Del to call a task manager?

same for me forever black screen until they fix amd bug i have the sound loading but the loading stop and crash but nice try

[Bezobrznic]

Originally posted by TeX KilleR:

Originally posted by Bezobrznic:

Do you have a sound of lobby menu when loading after a minute? or do you just have a Black Screen and your computer ends up been locked and does't respond to Alt F4 and Alt Ctrl Del to call a task manager?

same for me forever black screen until they fix amd bug i have the sound loading but the loading stop and crash but nice try

There is .ini file (or .lua) with loading parameters under users/local.... on Reddit there are multiple topics where it is on different systems. You can force in there 1024x720 resolution and see if your hardware will handle the load without crash. then find on what resolution it stops crashing by trial and error

so far it looks like 2 people had the method work for them and 2 had non effect.

[Peacie]

does not work for me. I have an AMD card on a lenovo laptop from a few years ago. I've even tried going into the .ini files and changing things. Completely wiping all files and reinstalling. And still nothing. I think mine may just be an issue with the AMD cards though. This probably fixes issues caused by things other than the AMD card bug. Thanks though! Ill do anything to try and play it but I think ill just have to be patient.

[Bezobrznic]

Originally posted by Peacie:

does not work for me. I have an AMD card on a lenovo laptop from a few years ago. I've even tried going into the .ini files and changing things. Completely wiping all files and reinstalling. And still nothing. I think mine may just be an issue with the AMD cards though. This probably fixes issues caused by things other than the AMD card bug. Thanks though! Ill do anything to try and play it but I think ill just have to be patient.

sorry I could not be more useful in your case. I don't have access to AMD cards, so can't mess with around and see if there are an easy fixes.

one more thing I can think of, is if you have access to Microsoft Surface, you can try option where with installed steam you can actually run game from PC without installing it on Surface itself (might give you access to an option menu in game from your laptop)

and option 2, if you know anyone with a Steam Deck, you can log in from a steam deck, change settings to minimal and try logging back on a laptop. Had one time used the method in other game after game got confused with screen settings when was played on different resolutions on different devices.

[Create@Review(Ravire)]

So basically I have to log into a different system to fix the issue? I'm half tempted to never play this game ever again tbh let alone touch build 42. I've been patient but when your game breaks to the point the user has to unjank your ♥♥♥♥ up it tends to make the user say ♥♥♥♥ this im out. I'm sorry this is happening to a lot of people

[Bezobrznic]

Originally posted by Woad2Isles(Ravire):

So basically I have to log into a different system to fix the issue? I'm half tempted to never play this game ever again tbh let alone touch build 42. I've been patient but when your game breaks to the point the user has to unjank your ♥♥♥♥ up it tends to make the user say ♥♥♥♥ this im out. I'm sorry this is happening to a lot of people

you will be surprised by how many games have issues when something new gets introduced. besides it is unstable for a reason, Build 41 works fine and it is stable.

and I rather have devs letting community test their product, than have few paid bloggers hype the "AAA" (quotations are for sarcasm) game which is released unplayable. in case of PZ at least we have some sort of dialog between devs and community.

[Create@Review(Ravire)]

Originally posted by Bezobrznic:

Originally posted by Woad2Isles(Ravire):

So basically I have to log into a different system to fix the issue? I'm half tempted to never play this game ever again tbh let alone touch build 42. I've been patient but when your game breaks to the point the user has to unjank your ♥♥♥♥ up it tends to make the user say ♥♥♥♥ this im out. I'm sorry this is happening to a lot of people

you will be surprised by how many games have issues when something new gets introduced. besides it is unstable for a reason, Build 41 works fine and it is stable.

and I rather have devs letting community test their product, than have few paid bloggers hype the "AAA" (quotations are for sarcasm) game which is released unplayable. in case of PZ at least we have some sort of dialog between devs and community.

No I wouldn't be surprised as I have gone thru my fair share of encountering game breaking bugs hell we could just bring up league of legends for example or something from ubisoft. Why risk screwing up a game on such a level it makes the player base leave? Simple either A they didn't and don't care oh people will come back. Or B likely case they weren't thinking when they ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up the game for some of the playerbase everyone wanted 42 to be rushed and I was one of the few saying eh let it come out when it's ready now it's not even fully released and it's effecting on a game breaking degree. People ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about muscle strain which was a joke of a complaint but hey you can at least play the game to experience muscle sprain. It's giving me the same taste of the halo tv show or halo in recent years which isn't a good thing.

[Bezobrznic]

Originally posted by Woad2Isles(Ravire):

Originally posted by Bezobrznic:

you will be surprised by how many games have issues when something new gets introduced. besides it is unstable for a reason, Build 41 works fine and it is stable.

and I rather have devs letting community test their product, than have few paid bloggers hype the "AAA" (quotations are for sarcasm) game which is released unplayable. in case of PZ at least we have some sort of dialog between devs and community.

No I wouldn't be surprised as I have gone thru my fair share of encountering game breaking bugs hell we could just bring up league of legends for example or something from ubisoft. Why risk screwing up a game on such a level it makes the player base leave? Simple either A they didn't and don't care oh people will come back. Or B likely case they weren't thinking when they ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up the game for some of the playerbase everyone wanted 42 to be rushed and I was one of the few saying eh let it come out when it's ready now it's not even fully released and it's effecting on a game breaking degree. People ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about muscle strain which was a joke of a complaint but hey you can at least play the game to experience muscle sprain. It's giving me the same taste of the halo tv show or halo in recent years which isn't a good thing.

They rushed it because there was demand from a community to get hands on the new things (especially since this time they used in-house testers instead of community like they normally were), one thing to hear about changes, another is to experience first hand. Most people who were with a game for a long time know that any big upgrades to an engine gives everyone a headache. Same was with Build 71 etc. At least this time Stable build still works fine.

It was not even a week yet, things will get fixed. Even map online will be updated to build 72 sometime in January. Quite sure they will gather ton of statistics on what works and what doesn't over winter holidays while we are trying to get into the game. Not all what is in current build will make it into stable, but faster this gets cleaned up, faster we will get NPCs to try out.

Like from trying, I can say new changes to combat are interesting, for casual gamers it is not a big change to game play style, but for people who were rushing to center of the town on Apocalypses settings - let just say they not so fans of changes lol.

And most of the old exploits were fixed as well, not all, few still in game buhaha. But new guides are needed, old ones 80% outdated and not usable any-longer

[TeX KilleR]

Originally posted by Peacie:

does not work for me. I have an AMD card on a lenovo laptop from a few years ago. I've even tried going into the .ini files and changing things. Completely wiping all files and reinstalling. And still nothing. I think mine may just be an issue with the AMD cards though. This probably fixes issues caused by things other than the AMD card bug. Thanks though! Ill do anything to try and play it but I think ill just have to be patient.

i have the same laptop it is related to amd card wait for the fix i hope they release it before 2025