Game won't launch - nothing but a black screen.

[bythunder99]

Just my luck - the game I have been most anticipating is finally available for purchase, and the damn thing won't even launch on my computer -- only a black screen and I'm forced to shut it down. Disappointed and ticked off, to say the least.

[jhovgaard]

Hey!

Sorry to hear that. That sounds weird. What kinda setup are you playing on, PC?

Have you tried restarting the computer? I know how it sounds but give it a try :)

[Blutwurst]

same here.
everything works fine in story mode but i am a bit annoyed becouse of the tutorial.
so i started a sandbox game to play the way i want. but this only leads to a loading loop (crash-thing) wasnt able to quit the game as well becouse it wasnt runing^^ strange thing.

had to restart my whole pc becouse of this crashed game. didnt try again. im just fed up for now...

[jhovgaard]

Hi guys,

Can you help us by providing your CPU, RAM, and GPU details?

[jinx20001]

often this can happen with certain games when running a program that conflicts with the game... for example i have this issue in some games when i have afterburner open in the background, closing afterburner and the game will then launch.

that is not the case for this game for me, i can use afterburner and the game launches fine but id take a bet on a program being open in the background that stops this launching correctly.

[bythunder99]

For me, the odd thing is that I had played a demo version of the game last year (I believe--it's been a while) and it ran perfectly, so I immediately placed it on my Wishlist. I thought that maybe, since then, something had changed during further game development and it caused the newest version to not work like the demo did.

And for jhovgaard, here's that info you wanted. Hope this helps you guys...

My CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz
My Installed RAM: 16.0 GB
My GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745


Thanks a lot.

[Blutwurst]

core i5-6500
16gb ram
geforce 1070gtx

[jhovgaard]

Originally posted by bythunder99:

For me, the odd thing is that I had played a demo version of the game last year (I believe--it's been a while) and it ran perfectly, so I immediately placed it on my Wishlist. I thought that maybe, since then, something had changed during further game development and it caused the newest version to not work like the demo did.

And for jhovgaard, here's that info you wanted. Hope this helps you guys...

My CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz
My Installed RAM: 16.0 GB
My GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745


Thanks a lot.

The graphical side of the game has been greatly improved since the demo, so the game is more taxing now.

I believe your GPU has 4gb VRAM. Try set your quality settings to medium. I think it's running out.

Originally posted by Blutwurst:

core i5-6500
16gb ram
geforce 1070gtx

This is weird, it should run smoothly. Have you experienced any crashes since last?

[Blutwurst]

Originally posted by jhovgaard:

Originally posted by bythunder99:

For me, the odd thing is that I had played a demo version of the game last year (I believe--it's been a while) and it ran perfectly, so I immediately placed it on my Wishlist. I thought that maybe, since then, something had changed during further game development and it caused the newest version to not work like the demo did.

And for jhovgaard, here's that info you wanted. Hope this helps you guys...

My CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz
My Installed RAM: 16.0 GB
My GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745


Thanks a lot.

The graphical side of the game has been greatly improved since the demo, so the game is more taxing now.

I believe your GPU has 4gb VRAM. Try set your quality settings to medium. I think it's running out.

Originally posted by Blutwurst:

core i5-6500
16gb ram
geforce 1070gtx

This is weird, it should run smoothly. Have you experienced any crashes since last?

2 loading loops in a row. now its working fine like there wasnt anything^^
but i need to say that the inital loading and the savegame loading is tricky and keeps stutering.

[jhovgaard]

Originally posted by Blutwurst:

2 loading loops in a row. now its working fine like there wasnt anything^^
but i need to say that the inital loading and the savegame loading is tricky and keeps stutering.

So weird! Almost sounds like it could be disk related. I'll keep an eye out and see if more people report this.

[Blutwurst]

Originally posted by jhovgaard:

Originally posted by Blutwurst:

2 loading loops in a row. now its working fine like there wasnt anything^^
but i need to say that the inital loading and the savegame loading is tricky and keeps stutering.

So weird! Almost sounds like it could be disk related. I'll keep an eye out and see if more people report this.

maybe, i run my games still on hdd. just the system is on ssd.

[jinx20001]

Originally posted by Blutwurst:

Originally posted by jhovgaard:

So weird! Almost sounds like it could be disk related. I'll keep an eye out and see if more people report this.

maybe, i run my games still on hdd. just the system is on ssd.

i think you are about to hear that you just found the issue. its highly likely the HDD. If your C drive has the space delete the game and re-install it on there, ima bet that solves your problem.

[bythunder99]

Originally posted by jhovgaard:

Originally posted by bythunder99:

For me, the odd thing is that I had played a demo version of the game last year (I believe--it's been a while) and it ran perfectly, so I immediately placed it on my Wishlist. I thought that maybe, since then, something had changed during further game development and it caused the newest version to not work like the demo did.

And for jhovgaard, here's that info you wanted. Hope this helps you guys...

My CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz
My Installed RAM: 16.0 GB
My GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745


Thanks a lot.

The graphical side of the game has been greatly improved since the demo, so the game is more taxing now.

I believe your GPU has 4gb VRAM. Try set your quality settings to medium. I think it's running out.

Originally posted by Blutwurst:

core i5-6500
16gb ram
geforce 1070gtx

This is weird, it should run smoothly. Have you experienced any crashes since last?

When I couldn't play it, I requested a refund and no longer have the game installed.

[TabbHonmin]

I encounter the same issue. When I launch the game, a get a black screen for few sec, then it closes. Then i try to launch it again, and again, always with the same result.

My computer has 32gb ram, i5-10400 cpu, RTX 2060 and a SSD.

[[OV]RPGforYOU]

Originally posted by TabbHonmin:

I encounter the same issue. When I launch the game, a get a black screen for few sec, then it closes. Then i try to launch it again, and again, always with the same result.

My computer has 32gb ram, i5-10400 cpu, RTX 2060 and a SSD.

You on Windows? Can you make sure to validate Steam date?

[TabbHonmin]

Originally posted by OVRPGforYOU:

You on Windows? Can you make sure to validate Steam date?

Yes i'm on windows 10.
I'm not sure what you mean by "validate Steam date".