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YogiTea Aug 17, 2019 @ 2:53am
Infinite Black screen on startup
When I start the game, I have a black screen with sound. And it lasts forever.
Anybody has similar issue and clue to solve it ?
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acorn cop Aug 17, 2019 @ 2:59am 
Originally posted by YogiTea:
When I start the game, I have a black screen with sound. And it lasts forever.
Anybody has similar issue and clue to solve it ?

Use NVIDIA Experience and update your driver choosing the clean install option when asked, I got many responses saying it worked for them.
Last edited by acorn cop; Aug 17, 2019 @ 3:00am
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YogiTea Aug 17, 2019 @ 3:03am 
Originally posted by gandhi's flip flop:
Originally posted by YogiTea:
When I start the game, I have a black screen with sound. And it lasts forever.
Anybody has similar issue and clue to solve it ?

Use NVIDIA Experience and update your driver choosing the clean install option when asked, I got many responses saying it worked for them.
Thanks ! I'm trying right away
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YogiTea Aug 17, 2019 @ 6:25am 
It didn't help. Anyone has a suggest ?
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YogiTea Aug 17, 2019 @ 7:12am 
Solved ! Thank me :)
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Alex Aug 17, 2019 @ 9:28am 
Hey just picked it up on the sale and really liked the hour I got in game but now getting the exact same result. Sound but no GUI. I'm on AMD though.. very frustrating. Glad you were able to fix yours. Reading that AMD is an issue in general with NMS. Kinda wish I had known before buying. :(
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YogiTea Aug 17, 2019 @ 11:49am 
Originally posted by Birch:
Hey just picked it up on the sale and really liked the hour I got in game but now getting the exact same result. Sound but no GUI. I'm on AMD though.. very frustrating. Glad you were able to fix yours. Reading that AMD is an issue in general with NMS. Kinda wish I had known before buying. :(
I have no problem with GUI. In fact, screen was black as soon as I start the game. I couldn't even see the logos or any loading screen. Just black and sound xD

Now, my problem hadn't anything to do with AMD either. I have an AMD, and everything is working fine for me ... I'm sorry I can't really help with your case. I'm really new to the game, and it seems a real pain not only for us and not only those we're facing. I've been on twitch to watch a french streamer I follow play NMS with 3 other french guys, and they were crashing so much and had so much bugs it was just a joke. After 2h, they still didn't manage to start their first quest ... Later, they understood how to avoid some bugs, but still had to quit game eventually and relog to prevent other bugs. It's not really stable by now. Hope they ll do something

As for me, I manually corrected the conf file and it went ok... I was inspired by youtube vids about dark screen, and though it was not the same problem as me, modifying conf files helped...
Try to figure ....
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maxx99 Aug 17, 2019 @ 11:58am 
Originally posted by Birch:
Hey just picked it up on the sale and really liked the hour I got in game but now getting the exact same result. Sound but no GUI. I'm on AMD though.. very frustrating. Glad you were able to fix yours. Reading that AMD is an issue in general with NMS. Kinda wish I had known before buying. :(

I had the same problem this morning and after reading a post here on steam (forgot which) a user suggested to change your FULLSCREEN to FALSE in one of the config files (forgot which) in your main installation folder then once in game you can change to the settings you really want and save it from there. Try that maybe.
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YogiTea Aug 17, 2019 @ 12:35pm 
Originally posted by mmax919:
Originally posted by Birch:
Hey just picked it up on the sale and really liked the hour I got in game but now getting the exact same result. Sound but no GUI. I'm on AMD though.. very frustrating. Glad you were able to fix yours. Reading that AMD is an issue in general with NMS. Kinda wish I had known before buying. :(

I had the same problem this morning and after reading a post here on steam (forgot which) a user suggested to change your FULLSCREEN to FALSE in one of the config files (forgot which) in your main installation folder then once in game you can change to the settings you really want and save it from there. Try that maybe.
That's kind of what I made (I tried some flags from true to false), but didn't really know what I did. Now, if some others did the same and it also worked, you should definitly give it a try.
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Alex Aug 17, 2019 @ 12:41pm 
ok thanks folks.. Yeah that was actually what I meant, YogiTea. I have no interface whatsoever, just music and a black however backlit screen. So doing anything with settings is impossible at least in game. mmax, thanks im looking into that now..
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Nomis Aug 17, 2019 @ 12:53pm 
I have the same problem, black screen with music. I have a Nvidia GTX960. I really don't know what to do...
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MattGamer Aug 17, 2019 @ 12:59pm 
Originally posted by Nomis:
I have the same problem, black screen with music. I have a Nvidia GTX960. I really don't know what to do...

Have you updated your drivers and tested the exprimental branch?
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YogiTea Aug 17, 2019 @ 1:09pm 
Originally posted by Nomis:
I have the same problem, black screen with music. I have a Nvidia GTX960. I really don't know what to do...
Go to your steam app folder then NMS folder, then, binaries/setting folder. On my computer it is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS
In this folder, edit file TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML
Try to change some settings (exemple, quality to low) or turn things to false.
What worked for me is turn this one to false:
<Property name="ShowRequirementsWarnings" value="false" />

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Alex Aug 17, 2019 @ 1:11pm 
yoooo the switching the local files to false totally worked.. THANK YOU FOLKS. Once in game I switched the in game settings to "borderless" NOT "fullscreen."
Last edited by Alex; Aug 17, 2019 @ 1:12pm
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Nomis Aug 17, 2019 @ 1:16pm 
Originally posted by YogiTea:
Originally posted by Nomis:
I have the same problem, black screen with music. I have a Nvidia GTX960. I really don't know what to do...
Go to your steam app folder then NMS folder, then, binaries/setting folder. On my computer it is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS
In this folder, edit file TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML
Try to change some settings (exemple, quality to low) or turn things to false.
What worked for me is turn this one to false:
<Property name="ShowRequirementsWarnings" value="false" />
It worked ! Big thanks to you :)
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YogiTea Aug 17, 2019 @ 1:19pm 
Originally posted by Nomis:
Originally posted by YogiTea:
Go to your steam app folder then NMS folder, then, binaries/setting folder. On my computer it is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS
In this folder, edit file TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML
Try to change some settings (exemple, quality to low) or turn things to false.
What worked for me is turn this one to false:
<Property name="ShowRequirementsWarnings" value="false" />
It worked ! Big thanks to you :)
So cool ! Glad I could help :)
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