I've tried everything but...

[c20c09]

I cannot play this game. I've tried for so long. First, after the prologue, I had a black screen. Solved this by downloading a save from someone who passed that point.

Played past level 1 where you rescue miller. White screen after the mission ends and you get your stats. Upon exiting the game and trying again, after I select continue, it's just another black screen immediately. No loading bars or anything. Just completely almost black screen. I've already scoured the forums and google and have tried everything. Here's a list:

1. Changed the framerate obect from automatic to "variable" in the config files
2. Deleted the MGSv_Config file
3. Made sure my drivers are up to date.
4. Made sure Geforce Experience is up to date
5. Uninstalled Geforce Experience
6. Changed Nvidia settings to quality over performance.
7. Changed Power Management Mode to Prefer Maximum Performance.
8. Changed all graphics settings in game to their lowest.
9. Disabled AV while playing
10. Ran as an administrator
11. closed all other windows/programs before starting up.
12. Playing through the first level after all this has been done.
13. Also made sure DirectX is up to date. as well as Windows Media.

I think that's all I've tried and I might've tried more. I have no mods. I'm running in fullscreen/windowless.
I have a Nvidia Geforce 1660 Super.
For what it's worth I also have 32 GB of Ram and a Intel i-5 9600K

I know this is an old game but I'm at the end of my rope here. I might try asking for my money back if I can't get this to play whatsoever.

[c20c09]

Also forgot to say any help is very much appreciated.

[NarkoTri1er]

Do you hear any sound from the game at all? I'm intereste if game runs perfectly normal, but the only visual experience you have is black screen.

[Chinasky™ 危機]

Buy a new PC.

[Chinasky™ 危機]

Search the problem on Youtube.

[DR. JOHN DEJAVU 1984]

Originally posted by Professor Chinasky:

Buy a new PC.

Haha

[Used_to_Could_Again]

I have a GT740. I’m actually surprised how well it runs in this PC. I’m sorry to hear about your issues.

[DR. JOHN DEJAVU 1984]

Originally posted by c20c09:

I cannot play this game. I've tried for so long. First, after the prologue, I had a black screen. Solved this by downloading a save from someone who passed that point.

Played past level 1 where you rescue miller. White screen after the mission ends and you get your stats. Upon exiting the game and trying again, after I select continue, it's just another black screen immediately. No loading bars or anything. Just completely almost black screen. I've already scoured the forums and google and have tried everything. Here's a list:

1. Changed the framerate obect from automatic to "variable" in the config files
2. Deleted the MGSv_Config file
3. Made sure my drivers are up to date.
4. Made sure Geforce Experience is up to date
5. Uninstalled Geforce Experience
6. Changed Nvidia settings to quality over performance.
7. Changed Power Management Mode to Prefer Maximum Performance.
8. Changed all graphics settings in game to their lowest.
9. Disabled AV while playing
10. Ran as an administrator
11. closed all other windows/programs before starting up.
12. Playing through the first level after all this has been done.
13. Also made sure DirectX is up to date. as well as Windows Media.

I think that's all I've tried and I might've tried more. I have no mods. I'm running in fullscreen/windowless.
I have a Nvidia Geforce 1660 Super.
For what it's worth I also have 32 GB of Ram and a Intel i-5 9600K

I know this is an old game but I'm at the end of my rope here. I might try asking for my money back if I can't get this to play whatsoever.

Okay, your problem isn't your computer or game.
You've been doing maintenance to your game that has worsened its state.

So here's what you need to do to fix this:

Go to your Steam Library, Right click Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain > Click on Properties > Go to the Local files tab > Click on verify integrity of game files.


This will then verify your game files and look for any discrepancies, once finished and at 100%, it will reinstall the normal game files over the corrupt ones.

You made a HUGE mistake downloading someone else's save file and deleting the MGSV_config file.

These are CRUX to your game and online portions of it-- so just hope that the basic instructions I told you fix it all.

[c20c09]

I've got them backed up so it's not a huge deal. I've also verified the integrity a few times. Always comes up fine.... I'll use the backups though, but then I'm stuck to my original problem of the black screen after the prologue..

[Critex]

whats your specs? maybe its an currupted harddrive or a problem with your ram.

[c20c09]

Originally posted by Critex:

whats your specs? maybe its an currupted harddrive or a problem with your ram.

I have a Nvidia Geforce 1660 Super.
For what it's worth I also have 32 GB of Ram and a Intel i-5 9600K

I'm running an SFC /scannow but I highly doubt my SSD is corrupted... I've ran SFC before but not super recently so I'll let you know how that goes. For now I'm pretty much starting at square one aside from the graphics settings being set to low which shouldn't affect anything anyway.. Thank you for the hint though. Again I'll let ya know how it goes.

[c20c09]

No integrity violations were found in the SFC... Still same problem. Blank screen when trying to continue. :/

[LSD]

There's no chance it's your HDD, and even if it was, all SFC does is validate your core Windows files. You need to use chkdsk to analyse the drive itself.

If you've validated your Steam MGS 5 game files (right click in library, then properties, then validate), then the absolute most likely issue is your GPU. Googling also turns up a whole host of issues with Nvidia GPUs and MGS5.

Suggestions are to disable all the stupid junk that modern GPUs are laden with. You said you tried GeForce Experience, though it's a bich to fully remove: try disabling "Nvidia share" and shadowplay, and all the other stuff.

[c20c09]

Originally posted by LSD:

There's no chance it's your HDD, and even if it was, all SFC does is validate your core Windows files. You need to use chkdsk to analyse the drive itself.

If you've validated your Steam MGS 5 game files (right click in library, then properties, then validate), then the absolute most likely issue is your GPU. Googling also turns up a whole host of issues with Nvidia GPUs and MGS5.

Suggestions are to disable all the stupid junk that modern GPUs are laden with. You said you tried GeForce Experience, though it's a bich to fully remove: try disabling "Nvidia share" and shadowplay, and all the other stuff.

Ah, right you are LSD. I was thinking the same but I didn't even know about Nvidia share or shadowplay. I'll give it a check when I can and report back.

[Rabid Urko]

https://windowsreport.com/metal-gear-solid-5-windows-10/ Might be number 2 ?
List of other fixes too.

Number 20 talks of a white screen issue.

[Rabid Urko]

Originally posted by HighRoller:

Originally posted by Professor Chinasky:

Buy a new PC.

Nominated as best answer of this year!

Best boring sarcastic run of the mill answer.