3rd Update in a row and still, Black Screen persists.

[arrivedxrci]

Ever since the 4.5 update of Limbus Company, some of us have been having an issue where we get an instant crash on a black screen when we launch the game. The PM logo never shows up, it's just an instant crash. For three consecutive updates have we received this and there has been absolutely no fix for it. Reinstalling, reverifying, not even replacing files with other's working Limbus Company game fixes it. We've been waiting for PM to see if they could acknowledge this, but with the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ going on that the development team is probably non-existant (hope they're all alright) and that there's been no responses from anyone who's been emailing PM (not even me), I'm sincerely doubting there's ever going to be a fix.

We all missed the 4.5 event and it's rewards because of this stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bug, so I hope PM realizes this and acts immediately.

[Totem]

The weird part about this bug is that my Laptop can play the game no problem and yet I still can't play the game on my home computer, which is the main computer that I use to play the game. There shouldn't be that much of a difference between the two, at least I would imagine... except maybe the OS anyway.

My tower runs Windows 8.1 while my laptop has windows 10, so maybe it's a problem with the OS?

either way, I found out it still ran well on my laptop too late and I still missed the event, so a lot of good that did me. Really hope PM's working on a fix.

[A Wispy Willy]

I've heard people say it's something like a video codec issue, so depending on what people are running maybe it's something specific to newer versions of Windows.

[arrivedxrci]

If it's an OS issue and they started shutting out lower versions of Windows, then I'm geniunely screwed because the only version I have is 8.1 If they really made that change on the downlow and refused to tell anyone about it, the patience I have for this company is dwindling by the minute.

[teamol]

The change is probably from updating unity engine version (blackscreens start to happen after that update), and with that there can be many possibilities. It's not like they'd randomly deny OS versions easily, as it's kinda against business interest and Unity engine should be handling compabiilities for that.

Originally posted by A Wispy Willy:

I've heard people say it's something like a video codec issue, so depending on what people are running maybe it's something specific to newer versions of Windows.

From logs shared by other users, many are related to video playback it seems, but there's no further detail on that, so it's really hard to say what part of codec is wrong.

Besides, trying to recreate the problem, I deleted my K-Lite codec and other possible codecs I installed, the game yet is still running fine for me. Might need to test this on newly installed OS though.

[Zarya]

I doubt it's an OS problem, cos i have win10 and still have blackscreens. The thing is, from 4.5 and till today, i've never gotten an steam update for LC even once. It feels like the game just stopped updating for me for some reason.