Stuck on black screen after...

[Nabs]

The memory battle between Swin and Nadia against Rixia, After victory screen it just goes to a black screen while victory music keeps playing. Any ideas?

Edit: Worked the second time through.

[Stabbey]

It's a frequent occurrence in general with scene transitions, it's not tied to any specific scene as far as I can tell. It's incredibly annoying because the only thing to do is close the game and start it up and hope it doesn't happen again.

[λΔ fan | ShamPeddler]

I also have this problem and i want to add that it might be because of old hardware(using almost a decade old mid level gaming laptop) and/or alt-tabbing out of the game (alt tabbing keeps making the screen freeze while not alt tabbing reduces the chances exponentially). I do hope there's a fix for it soon, because i dont want to keep repeating boss fights on nightmare just for the game to freeze post cutscene.

[Koby]

Originally posted by Stabbey:

It's a frequent occurrence in general with scene transitions.

I have never experienced this issue. So it might be something specific to certain hardware. By chance are you playing it on a mechanical drive instead of an ssd/nvme?

[Mr. F]

I just finished the game and had about a dozen of these throughout my playthrough. Any transition that involves a black screen, be it after combat or just between two scenes, can cause the freeze. I had one in the sequence after the final boss, so I had to do the fight a second time.

It's probably handy for PH3 if we posted hardware specs. My CPU is an antique, so that might be it, but I never had that problem in the Cold Steel games.

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
RAM: 16GB DDR3
Storage: SATA SSD
OS: Windows 10

[λΔ fan | ShamPeddler]

Originally posted by Koby:

Originally posted by Stabbey:

It's a frequent occurrence in general with scene transitions.

I have never experienced this issue. So it might be something specific to certain hardware. By chance are you playing it on a mechanical drive instead of an ssd/nvme?

i am, and also playing on integrated graphics instead of my own gpu due to the fact the games run a lot better for me if i do so. I do want to point out that this is only a thing in reverie and i have not had this happen at all for the past 4 Cold Steel games.

my specs for context:

OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core i7 6600U @ 2.50GHz
GPU: ATI AMD Radeon R5 M330/Intel HD Graphics 520
Ram: 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3
Storage: 931GB Western Digital HDD

[jlawleraz]

Just adding my specs and experience to this.

Like Mr. F, I had at least a dozen of these throughout my playthrough. I'd have to end the task to quit the game - the methods within Steam to close the game did not work. The process was still using CPU time, but never responded. Like others have said, the same scene transition worked the next time with no other changes. Any kind of scene transition could cause it. Everything from using an elevator in Reverie Corridor to leaving a minigame to a boss fight to that entire long sequence in the finale. The long sequence in the finale (conversations and multiple battles) was the most annoying because I had to replay so much because of the lack of autosaves or places to make a manual save there. Like OrangeMint said, I did not have this problem with the other Cold Steel games.

Specs:

OS: Windows 11 Home
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-1115G4 @ 3.00GHz 3.00 GHz
RAM: 16 GB
GPU: Intel(R) UHD Graphics
Storage: 256 GB WDC NVMe