Alright...WTH did you do to the game, Steam??

[Spike Driver]

Game won't display past the opening screens. Tried uninstall/reinstall on a SSD, tried verifying integrity of game files, nothing works. Audio plays but display won't show. Just a
black screen.

What did you do, Steam???

[ENOWONMAI]

Did it use to work on your system? Did you change anything to your PC? Steam is not the problem here...

[Spike Driver]

Originally posted by ENOWONMAI:

Did it use to work on your system? Did you change anything to your PC? Steam is not the problem here...

Yes it did. No I didn't. In fact, it worked great when I left for a DoD job six months ago---I get home this past weekend, fired it up for the first time yesterday, annnnnnndddd.....

Nothing.

PC hasn't changed.

[CLeRiC670]

Are you on a 40xx or 50xx series Nvidia card? There's a well known bug that the current driver packages going back to last September have been causing problems with black screen in games.

If so try COMPLETELY removing the driver, google how to do it, reinstall, see if fix. If not rollback to a previous driver, or a few rollback revisions to see if that works.

It's not a matter of IF you'll get a blackscreen with Nvidia 40-50 cards, it's a matter of WHEN. They completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥ all the things when they launched the Nvidia app to replace the older software. Lots of reputable tech news has been reporting this for months now.

[Spike Driver]

Originally posted by CLeRiC670:

Are you on a 40xx or 50xx series Nvidia card? There's a well known bug that the current driver packages going back to last September have been causing problems with black screen in games.

If so try COMPLETELY removing the driver, google how to do it, reinstall, see if fix. If not rollback to a previous driver, or a few rollback revisions to see if that works.

It's not a matter of IF you'll get a blackscreen with Nvidia 40-50 cards, it's a matter of WHEN. They completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥ all the things when they launched the Nvidia app to replace the older software. Lots of reputable tech news has been reporting this for months now.

Nvidia RTX 3060 with 12Gb on the card. System has 32Gb of RAM.

[simon.pete15]

Originally posted by Spike Driver:

Nvidia RTX 3060 with 12Gb on the card. System has 32Gb of RAM.

It'll still be using the same driver set as 40xx or 50xx series cards.
The updated drivers came out in Jan '25, #522.xx I think (bad memory).
Remove the latest drivers using DDU and install the Dec '24 driver set.
You should be good to go.

I'm surprised Nvidia haven't sorted this problem out by now.
When I had an Nvidia card in, an update quite often had an 'adverse effect' on games graphics. They usually posted another update within a few days to sort it though.
But then again, this is a completely new driver set for the new 50xx cards. It is supposed to be fully compatible with the older cards. The big 'upgrade' (?) is the 4 x frame generation from 1 x frame generation of 40xx cards.
The Dec '24 driver set is the last one before the 50xx card driver set.

[ENOWONMAI]

OP in your Nvidia settings check if you have the driver version simon.pete15 is talking about: 572.16 that came out Jan 30. If you do, roll back to 566.36 from December:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/237719/

Let us know if it solved your issue. Be aware that a new driver 572.83 is also available to download that may, or may not, fix your problem.

[Spike Driver]

Originally posted by ENOWONMAI:

OP in your Nvidia settings check if you have the driver version simon.pete15 is talking about: 572.16 that came out Jan 30. If you do, roll back to 566.36 from December:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/237719/

Let us know if it solved your issue. Be aware that a new driver 572.83 is also available to download that may, or may not, fix your problem.

Ty for this! Checking on my Nvidia settings, I see Game Ready Driver 572.47 is my current one. That being said, my Nvidia dashboard is showing a new driver ready for download---"Version 11.0.3.232 is ready to install".

[ENOWONMAI]

Originally posted by Spike Driver:

Ty for this! Checking on my Nvidia settings, I see Game Ready Driver 572.47 is my current one. That being said, my Nvidia dashboard is showing a new driver ready for download---"Version 11.0.3.232 is ready to install".

Glad we could help, hopefully you can play the game again

[Averagedog]

Here is what I did. I temporarily changed the resolution of my 4k monitor to 1080p.

After I got in, I went to the game settings and toggled the resolution to anything else then back to 1080p. I closed the game, switched my resolution back to 4k, then opened the game. The game then remembered to launch at 1080P since it can't handle 4k. viola. Zombie killing action at infuriatingly low FOV.

[Heretic]

lots of people seem to have this problem, you can also get around it by setting the game to launch in windowed mode from steam game properties menu.