Black Screen Loading

[desuTHICC]

With the recent update, I can't load the game.

Game starts up just fine, I select my game mode, and save file, and the screen goes black (music still playing in background) then goes unresponsive.

I've updated my drivers considering the game wouldn't lunch without the new drives.

So what gives? Anyone else having this issue? I've deleted my game settings from the settings folder, and attempted to repair the redistributable. Any help appreciated

[PLATEMAN]

Lots of people having this issue, there's quick fixes here and there, Ive tried most of them, i think we're ♥♥♥♥♥♥ until a fix comes out

[Barnie Blaha]

same

[shazbat]

Have you tried the anti-virus tip?
Some anti-v's are reading one of the files from steam as a false positive and not downloading it., even though it says download finished
Turn off your anti-v temporarily (its ok if your firewall is on) and try to re-verify your game files. You might have to turn it off as well when first loading. Most anti-v's sort themselves out once you have a successful load up.

[Barnie Blaha]

Yeah it's off bro, tried updating drivers, tried verifying, tried deleting shader cache and save folder, tried deleting game settings and verifying, crashes every time on starting game just a black screen. SAD BABY

[hippo]

i have a 15 min loading time but i see stars moving it isn't a black screen

[Hugh Manatee]

Sometimes the sound still plays, sometimes it doesn't. Apart from that I've had hard system freezing crashes EVERY TIME I have tried to play. All I can do is force a reboot.

EDIT: Did the whole upgrade, "fixes" route, too. Nothing works.

[BloodySammy]

Same problem，after load or new game goes black screen crash back to windows.

[Diranar Nox]

If you got this issue and If you updated your Game :
1. delete all installed mods - they don't work and will break the Game
2. delete all Files in the Shadercache Folder under No Man's Sky install Dir\GAMEDATA\
3. try again

[BloodySammy]

Originally posted by Diranar:

If you got this issue and If you updated your Game :
1. delete all installed mods - they don't work and will break the Game
2. delete all Files in the Shadercache Folder under No Man's Sky install Dir\GAMEDATA\
3. try again

I've done what you said,reinstall the game,no mods,still the same problem,thx anyway.

[Hugh Manatee]

Originally posted by Diranar:

If you got this issue and If you updated your Game :
1. delete all installed mods - they don't work and will break the Game
2. delete all Files in the Shadercache Folder under No Man's Sky install Dir\GAMEDATA\
3. try again

You're preaching to the choir.

My only choices left are sacrificing a goat. Failing that, a virgin. To be honest, I don't want to resort to sacrificing a virgin.

Again.

[MycroftCanadaNS]

Originally posted by desuTHICC:

With the recent update, I can't load the game.

Game starts up just fine, I select my game mode, and save file, and the screen goes black (music still playing in background) then goes unresponsive.

I've updated my drivers considering the game wouldn't lunch without the new drives.

So what gives? Anyone else having this issue? I've deleted my game settings from the settings folder, and attempted to repair the redistributable. Any help appreciated

That is the exact same issue I am having. There is no fix for it.

Here is a video I made, and sent to HG via their bug report forum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3VohoIvzSo

[Witski]

Originally posted by Diranar:

If you got this issue and If you updated your Game :
1. delete all installed mods - they don't work and will break the Game
2. delete all Files in the Shadercache Folder under No Man's Sky install Dir\GAMEDATA\
3. try again

hmmm i wanted to try this one but ,on my pc this folder is empty (i just purchase the game,never played it before),also i see another "tip" but it must be done in the settings menu...that i have not because i can only select play a game or go to desktop..

[NOOB]

I can start a new game. I played a new game for several minutes without problems, and than didn't continue, so I can't say for sure how smoothly the game goes after Beyond update. But when I try to load my save created on August 13 (before Beyond update) I see space with stars, than a black screen appears with a white round cursor in the middle and game music starts playing. After 5-10 seconds the sign "No man's sky is not responding". As i understand it, the fact is the old save file conflicts with the Beyond update. For reference: i newer installed any mods. Does anyone have a similar problem? Maybe someone solved it?

[Barnie Blaha]

I don't even get to the point where I see stars, it's just black, freezes up and crashes when starting or loading a save.

[Barnie Blaha]

Originally posted by MycroftCanadaNS:

Originally posted by desuTHICC:

With the recent update, I can't load the game.

Game starts up just fine, I select my game mode, and save file, and the screen goes black (music still playing in background) then goes unresponsive.

I've updated my drivers considering the game wouldn't lunch without the new drives.

So what gives? Anyone else having this issue? I've deleted my game settings from the settings folder, and attempted to repair the redistributable. Any help appreciated

That is the exact same issue I am having. There is no fix for it.

Here is a video I made, and sent to HG via their bug report forum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3VohoIvzSo

You and I share the same processor line, perhaps they removed emulation for older processors and that's why it's crashing at load/start a game... I am having the exact same issue as you. I've tried all the suggestions including enrolling in the beta branch,

With any luck they didn't tick a box on compiling for emulation of processors missing newer instruction sets. (Allows older processors to run games with poorer performance while doing so but at least they play.)

This isn't the first time Phenom II's weren't able to run this game, a few years ago they enabled support for them I believe. So we'll have to wait it out, brother.

If you recall, they previously dropped anything above SSE2 even though Phenom 2 supports up to SSE3, SSE4A, but not SSE 4.0 and SSE 4.1 4.2

Starting with Barcelona-based processors, AMD introduced the SSE4a instruction set, which has 4 SSE4 instructions and 4 new SSE instructions. These instructions are not found in Intel's processors supporting SSE4.1 and AMD processors only started supporting Intel's SSE4.1 and SSE4.2 (the full SSE4 instruction set) in the Bulldozer-based FX processors.

https://www.nomanssky.com/pc-patch-1-04/