Coop connection black screen

[Jadener]

When I try to connect to my friends server, I only get a black screen, followed by a brief flash of a loading screen and then crash to menu. Reinstall, restart on all our ends didnt help and I appear to be the only one with this issue. Anyone got a solution?
EDIT: The above happens on DirectX 12. On 11, the loading screen shows for the whole time, then briefly switches to another one and crashes to menu.

PARTIALLY SOLVED: Looks like all I had to do was create the game on my own on DX12. Other people connectiong worked fine. Creating the game for the first time showed me connection error, but restarting the game helped.

[¤ʕ•́ᴥ•̀ʔっ♡ ¤]

Originally posted by Jadener:

When I try to connect to my friends server, I only get a black screen, followed by a brief flash of a loading screen and then crash to menu. Reinstall, restart on all our ends didnt help and I appear to be the only one with this issue. Anyone got a solution?

We are in the same boat ... none of us can join a game ...

[Jelle]

same here. someone fixed it by switching the directx version used. but tht did not work for us.

[Caiman]

we turned off our VPNs and that worked

[Jelle]

Originally posted by Caiman:

we turned off our VPNs and that worked

no vpns used by neither of us. still lokking to find a way to fix this. does anyone know where the game puts the logfiles so i can try to find the problem?

[Big Grizzly]

Same here with second player getting black screen

[TheRogon]

We have had this issue with other games like this and found it helped to set "Steam Networking" to 'Friends'. Steam(top left) -> settings -> In-game -> very bottom

[SwordsOfTheSouth_Toplitz]

Moved topic here.

[Shinji]

I have the same problem, after a little time it return to the main menu

[Shinji]

Originally posted by TheRogon:

We have had this issue with other games like this and found it helped to set "Steam Networking" to 'Friends'. Steam(top left) -> settings -> In-game -> very bottom

It solve my problem personnaly

[Azuryt]

same story :(

[ToadSiren]

My friend and I are having the same problem. the blackscreen seems to be over the main menu because I can still click the buttons.
We didn't have the option to open in directx, but we both tried the "Steam networking" trick and still no luck.

[Big Grizzly]

My friend closed the game fully and when I logged into the game completely I then sent the code. She started the game and joined using the new code and it worked straight away.

Seems to be when I copy and send the code before I fully log into the map she gets the black screen!

Might be worth fully opening the server so you can play, then copy and send the code and the friend fully load up and then enter it.

[Legion]

Same problem here with the black screen when either my friend or i join each others games, very frustrating. Please fix this asap devs!

[SwordsOfTheSouth_Toplitz]

It's WIP.

[relisira]

Hi there, I know the devs are working on it, but thought I also write down my experiences and what we've tried so far.

3 of us are trying to play the game in co-op. I can't join any of the games my friends host. Since yesterday's update (12.08) they also have problems joining each other's games (before that they had no problem with it). They could only join right now, when one of them started a solo Oxbow game, saved it, then restarted and switched to co-op. I still couldn't join that session.

BUT if I make a co-op game, they can join mine without a problem.

With one friend I have the loading screen picture. After a flash it shows the loading indicator for a moment, then it throws me back to the main menu. After that, I can't try to reenter the game or make a new game (either solo or co-op). If I try to join again it just says "session not found". I have to close the game and restart it if I want anything.

With the other friend it's the black screen with only the mouse (I have seen this problem in many cases here in the forum), then back to the main menu and same case of restarting the game.

We tried setting the game to DirectX11 for all of us, then again on DirectX12, or for just the host on DX12, and the others on DX11. It didn't seem to have any effect, good or bad, on the joining session problem.

Our PC's are on the same router, so not some distant session or different router settings.

Hope this helps solve the problems. It at least shows that even with the same PC there are different cases if I want to join a different friend. There and back connection, like I can't join their game while they can join mine, can also mean a big difference.