black screen after trying to start game

[emilyraemeow]

so i can't play it. i've gotten as far as Sylen's opening cutscene, chosing New Game, the difficulty, and the guided setting. and then it just goes to a black screen and does nothing.

anyone else having this issue? is there a fix?

[possumpeach]

I'm also having this issue - no idea what to do about it, but just waiting to see if it gets patched/someone here finds a solution. :(

[Ineluki3838]

i have the same, hoping it gets fixed soon ;) lmk if you find a solution...

[ReddT-Rex]

me too and idk what to do

[dgalietti]

Same issue here. I got it to run last night.. but no luck now. Just a black screen.

[Ineluki3838]

im gonna try to reinstall the game ill let you guys know if it helps or not...

[Ineluki3838]

fyi: reinstalling the game did nothing i still have issues

[Ineluki3838]

Originally posted by emilyraemeow:

so i can't play it. i've gotten as far as Sylen's opening cutscene, chosing New Game, the difficulty, and the guided setting. and then it just goes to a black screen and does nothing.

anyone else having this issue? is there a fix?

okay i just found a solution, first of all update your driver to the newest one, then go into your game files and properties of the game and set it to always run as an administartor. then all your setting on lowest and now it should work

[G.FreemanUA]

Yep, black screen after starting new game. Could be solved by installing latest drivers from nvidia. Anyway I do not want install new drivers, because it brings new issues for my already installed and perfectly running games. My old and good version of driver fully satisfies me. So now I have to choose: to run stable my favourite games or play Horizon on new driver. Nahh, refund until developers fix this misunderstanding...

[EXCALIBRE50]

Originally posted by G.FreemanUA:

Yep, black screen after starting new game. Could be solved by installing latest drivers from nvidia. Anyway I do not want install new drivers, because it brings new issues for my already installed and perfectly running games. My old and good version of driver fully satisfies me. So now I have to choose: to run stable my favourite games or play Horizon on new driver. Nahh, refund until developers fix this misunderstanding...

so i am not a tech guy but how do i update my driver?

[omani_luna]

I'm on an all-AMD rig. Things were good until I installed Adrenalin Edition 24.3.1. Now I get the black screen. F...

[Lone Lunatic]

Originally posted by omani_luna:

I'm on an all-AMD rig. Things were good until I installed Adrenalin Edition 24.3.1. Now I get the black screen. F...

I don't know if this helps but I had the same problem after upgrading to 24.3.1. It did fix itself, I just had to be patient. I think the old, already compiled shaders are responsible.

[PAYNESWORTH]

I had this exact same issue. I tried everything to resolve. I ended up plugging in headphones to the USB and it magically started showing video. I don't know how to why you need headphones for the video to show but this is what helped me. Hopefully can save someone some time.

[JesStarZ]

try to use display:fullscreen settings.

[FraGG]

So, since the two last nVidia driver I got a black screen issue.

No issue on the Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered.

Geforce RTX 4070Ti

[Lined_up]

I had this issue when I updated the graphics driver. I actually played with a setting in graphics to try and solve another problem (green/blue flashing), and as part of that, I updated the driver. RTX3070...

I tried over and over to reboot windows and the game, and after several goes of it, it just worked. Not sure what it was, but it just randomly started working. So weird.