White screen!

[Zack_Attack333]

AMD FX-6300 Six core processor
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
Windows 10 64 bit

I'm getting white screen on launch and then back to desktop. What do I do?

[Typhoon]

me 2 !!!

[Bermudaman]

pure io

[wontoniii]

Same page

[theazurekite1]

same thing happening here, tried uninstalling then reinstalling, but the same white screen happens.

[theazurekite1]

found this in a different thread, didn't help me, but it may help y'all.

1. Try deleting the "Settings.ini" file, if you use Windows 7 this file can be found in: C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Roaming\LucasArts\The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition\

2. Type this in your Windows Explorer path text input.
For Secret of Monkey Island:
%APPDATA%\LucasArts\The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition
For Monkey Island 2:
%APPDATA%\LucasArts\Monkey Island 2 Special Edition

3. Well if a settings document is not there, then you can create one. It's a text file, so create a text file with a name of "Settings.ini" and here's some sample content for it. (This is from mine installation of Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition) :
[localization]
language=0
[display]
windowed=0
shaders=1
resolution=1366x768
[audio]
music=100
voice=100
sfx=100
subtitles=1

[Shantak]

Following the above answer fixed it for me. In the settings.ini file the resolution was set to my native screen resolution of 2560x1600. The problem was gone after changing the resolution to 1366x768

[Maarten Vander Cruyssen]

This worked for me: Try setting compatibility mode to Windows 95 and set to run as Administrator in the exe file, and then launching again through steam.

[sguerrieri]

This worked for me too: setting the compatibility with Windows 95 and never seen the white screen at startup.

[RGB PC]

I downloaded the Monkey Island Collection during Steam's Holiday Sale 2020. When trying to open The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition I would immediately receive a white screen. I could see that my system was still responsive because I could ALT+TAB, but nothing was on the white screen and I could not interface with it.

I do not know exactly which step fixed the problem, but I completely the steps that theazurekite1 suggested as well as changing the Windows Compatibility Mode that Maarten Vander Cruyssen suggested and it FIXED THE PROBLEM. I suspect that changing the Windows Compatibility Setting to Windows 95 had the most effect, but I did create the .ini file as well (as mentioned in step 3 of theazurekite1 's directions). When I went to the %APPDATA%\LucasArts\The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition (from Step 2), I did not see a "Setting.ini" File, so I had to create my own. I just right clicked on the directory, selected Create New (like when you make a new directory) and selected Text Document. I called the document "settings.ini" and copy/pasted the contents from Step 3.

I hope this helps anyone else who happens to have this problem! Again, I think changing the Windows Compatibility Mode to Windows 95 definitely helped because that just makes sense. This is a very old game.

My computer:
i7 4930K
GTX 1660 Ti
16 GB DDR3 RAM
1 TB WD Black m.2 SSD
Windows 10

[Vortex]

Setting compatibility mode to Windows 95 worked for me

[tkdchris]

Worked for me, thank you.

[migs--]

Originally posted by Maarten Vander Cruyssen:

This worked for me: Try setting compatibility mode to Windows 95 and set to run as Administrator in the exe file, and then launching again through steam.

Worked for me too, thank you.

[BrassBender]

Originally posted by RGB PC:

I downloaded the Monkey Island Collection during Steam's Holiday Sale 2020. When trying to open The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition I would immediately receive a white screen. I could see that my system was still responsive because I could ALT+TAB, but nothing was on the white screen and I could not interface with it.

I do not know exactly which step fixed the problem, but I completely the steps that theazurekite1 suggested as well as changing the Windows Compatibility Mode that Maarten Vander Cruyssen suggested and it FIXED THE PROBLEM. I suspect that changing the Windows Compatibility Setting to Windows 95 had the most effect, but I did create the .ini file as well (as mentioned in step 3 of theazurekite1 's directions). When I went to the %APPDATA%\LucasArts\The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition (from Step 2), I did not see a "Setting.ini" File, so I had to create my own. I just right clicked on the directory, selected Create New (like when you make a new directory) and selected Text Document. I called the document "settings.ini" and copy/pasted the contents from Step 3.

I hope this helps anyone else who happens to have this problem! Again, I think changing the Windows Compatibility Mode to Windows 95 definitely helped because that just makes sense. This is a very old game.

My computer:
i7 4930K
GTX 1660 Ti
16 GB DDR3 RAM
1 TB WD Black m.2 SSD
Windows 10

Originally posted by theazurekite1:

found this in a different thread, didn't help me, but it may help y'all.

1. Try deleting the "Settings.ini" file, if you use Windows 7 this file can be found in: C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Roaming\LucasArts\The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition\

2. Type this in your Windows Explorer path text input.
For Secret of Monkey Island:
%APPDATA%\LucasArts\The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition
For Monkey Island 2:
%APPDATA%\LucasArts\Monkey Island 2 Special Edition

3. Well if a settings document is not there, then you can create one. It's a text file, so create a text file with a name of "Settings.ini" and here's some sample content for it. (This is from mine installation of Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition) :
[localization]
language=0
[display]
windowed=0
shaders=1
resolution=1366x768
[audio]
music=100
voice=100
sfx=100
subtitles=1

This worked for me on Monkey Island 2 Special Edition which on Windows 11 only appears to work in Windowed Mode

[LordTarenor]

Originally posted by theazurekite1:

found this in a different thread, didn't help me, but it may help y'all.

1. Try deleting the "Settings.ini" file, if you use Windows 7 this file can be found in: C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Roaming\LucasArts\The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition\

2. Type this in your Windows Explorer path text input.
For Secret of Monkey Island:
%APPDATA%\LucasArts\The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition
For Monkey Island 2:
%APPDATA%\LucasArts\Monkey Island 2 Special Edition

3. Well if a settings document is not there, then you can create one. It's a text file, so create a text file with a name of "Settings.ini" and here's some sample content for it. (This is from mine installation of Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition) :
[localization]
language=0
[display]
windowed=0
shaders=1
resolution=1366x768
[audio]
music=100
voice=100
sfx=100
subtitles=1

THANK YOU!

[Zensou]

Created the Settings.ini in "%APPDATA%\LucasArts\The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition", didn't work. Changed some settings in the ini, didn't work. Put the MISE.exe in Windows 95 Compatibility, and it works!

Also for me the game places the Settings.ini in "%PROGRAMDATA%\LucasArts\The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition" and not "%APPDATA%\LucasArts\The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition".