Game Screen is black, pause Menu is visible

[Zerzuskan]

Everything worked in the beginning. Picked my Difficulty, selected my 3 starting guys, clicked start and then the screen was just black. I hear the sound and i thought its a loading screen. But it never ends. I can press Escape and see the pause menu then. I tried Save and Exit, but the screen will just stay black

[somebodybond]

Press F8 and send in a bug report so they can look into it.

[Fatherwow]

same exact issue.. chose starting guys .. hit found new school.. then just black screen.. no loading animation .. just black screen.. game is running fine.. not frozen.. just cant see anything

[Fatherwow]

bump

[Zerzuskan]

Originally posted by somebodybond:

Press F8 and send in a bug report so they can look into it.

I did, lets see if they patch it some time soon

[HubertNNN]

I had the same issue.
What is weird after closing the game and opening it again now I have black screen from the beginning (no menu at all).

I changed framerate from 30 FPS (the default) to 60 FPS, I wonder if its related to this bug.

edit:
Nevermind I reinstalled the game and it works again.

Also I managed to find the game log file and it seems like the issue is related to game saving. The moment I am getting black screen log get this:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
  at Steamworks.SteamClient.get_SteamId () [0x00005] in <7235a8e3cdf2465da5e2fc31275607db>:0 
  at View.SaveLoad.ConstructSteamSaveRoot () [0x00009] in <a2f0a7ad94314d1aab868f38bda442e2>:0 
  at View.SaveLoad.ConstructSaveRoots () [0x00005] in <a2f0a7ad94314d1aab868f38bda442e2>:0 
  at View.SaveLoad.ConstructSaveDirectory (Model.Simulation simulation) [0x00000] in <a2f0a7ad94314d1aab868f38bda442e2>:0 
  at View.SaveLoad.ConstructPathBundle_SimulationAndFilename (Model.Simulation simulation, System.String filename, System.Boolean useSharedSaves) [0x0000b] in <a2f0a7ad94314d1aab868f38bda442e2>:0 
  at View.HUDScreen.<HandleNewGameChoices>b__79_1 () [0x00007] in <a2f0a7ad94314d1aab868f38bda442e2>:0 
  at View.SchoolStartWindow.<Init>b__4_1 (KleiWidgets.Widget _) [0x00010] in <a2f0a7ad94314d1aab868f38bda442e2>:0 
  at UnityEngine.Events.InvokableCall`1[T1].Invoke (T1 args0) [0x00010] in <7f2ccf3999ca4756b70a33db243fabf4>:0 
  at UnityEngine.Events.UnityEvent`1[T0].Invoke (T0 arg0) [0x00025] in <7f2ccf3999ca4756b70a33db243fabf4>:0 
  at KleiWidgets.MouseHandler.Click () [0x0005c] in <a09e02492396431b83eae5a686b76967>:0 
  at KleiWidgets.MouseHandler.OnPointerClick (UnityEngine.Vector2 mousePosition, System.Int32 button) [0x00003] in <a09e02492396431b83eae5a686b76967>:0 
  at KleiWidgets.UIManagerMouseHandler.Update (System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] list) [0x0026c] in <a09e02492396431b83eae5a686b76967>:0 
  at KleiWidgets.UIManager.Update () [0x000b4] in <a09e02492396431b83eae5a686b76967>:0 

Btw, the file is at "C:/users/<username>/AppData/LocalLow/Sparkypants/Mind Over Magic/Player.log" if anyone else would need it.

[HubertNNN]

Hey, something I didn't think about (since many games don't have it), this game has a prerelease beta and this bug is fixed there.
So if you have the black screen issue, switch to beta and it will work.

[Central]

just in case people dont know how to switch to the beta update:

steam library -> mind over magic -> properties -> betas -> beta participation -> "pre release - pre release of updates for preview testing"