Black Screen Fix Test Branch

[Kaizen Game Works]

Hi all,

We have put a new branch on Steam that includes what we *think* is a proper fix for the black screen issues some people have been seeing. if you have suffered from a black screen on startup or black screens during gameplay, please try this new branch and let us know how you get on.

This branch is fully compatible with save games and includes the fixes from the most recent 1.0.14 patch. If we can verify that this branch fixes the issue for people, we will push it live to the main branch.

Instructions:
-Right click on Paradise Killer in your Steam library
-Select Properties
-Select the Beta tab
-Select the 'Public Experimental' option from the drop down menu
-Wait for the update to complete
-You can change back to the 'NONE' option whenever you want

If this works or doesn't work, please reply to this thread. We will continue to look at this issue.

Thank you once again for your understanding and patience.

[Richie Head]

Didn't work for me when I had my refresh rate set to 144Hz but as soon as I switched to 60Hz, had no problem!

[David]

Was recommended to try this out, even though that's not really my issue; didn't solve it, for me. It's still locking up at the first starlight all.

[Oli Kaizen]

Originally posted by David:

Was recommended to try this out, even though that's not really my issue; didn't solve it, for me. It's still locking up at the first starlight all.

Hi, we hadn't seen the starlight bug during development. We think it's a rare CPU issue.

We looked at it this afternoon and we have a potential fix that we'll soon roll out.

[David]

I hope it'll work!

[billf2011]

Didn't work for me - still seeing black screen with the heart cursor on startup, and hearing music.

[( 🦈Warp Zone🦈 )]

Does not work, getting same issue. As sad as it is to have this problem, I'll refrain from refunding since you guys are actively looking for a solution

[( 🦈Warp Zone🦈 )]

Okay so I fixed it just now, oddly enough.

I went into my Windows display settings, and change my monitor refresh rate to 120 Hz

Then I launched the game (on the test branch) using custom launch commands as follows

"-windowed -w 1024 -refresh 144"

This ended up booting the game succesfully without the black screen hiccup. Hopefully this helps someone (or the devs) figure out exactly what's going on. Seems to be related to refresh rate from what I'm guessing. Cheers.

[Oli Kaizen]

Thanks for the info. We don't know why the refresh rate is affecting this but it explains why we never saw it in dev.

[N]

I got the black screen with both public and alpha branches in full screen, but it appears that playing the game in windowed mode with the command line settings works fine.

[pinkoesgto]

doesnt work for me

[pinkoesgto]

Originally posted by ( ✨Warp Zone✨ ):

Okay so I fixed it just now, oddly enough.

I went into my Windows display settings, and change my monitor refresh rate to 120 Hz

Then I launched the game (on the test branch) using custom launch commands as follows

"-windowed -w 1024 -refresh 144"

This ended up booting the game succesfully without the black screen hiccup. Hopefully this helps someone (or the devs) figure out exactly what's going on. Seems to be related to refresh rate from what I'm guessing. Cheers. :singingsheslime:

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where did you enter this command please?