Return of the White Screen of Death

[sockknitterporg]

I have tried absolutely everything, I have tried the dll fixes, I have tried compatibility modes, I have tried running as administrator, I think I've restarted my laptop a dozen times. I need somebody to hold my hand now, I can't figure this out. Please help.

[AnandK96]

found this in a different thread, going to try these myself and see if they work

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

[AnandK96]

Originally posted by AnandK96:

found this in a different thread, going to try these myself and see if they work

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

yeah this didn't work for me :(

[sockknitterporg]

Tried that and it didn't work. I had a lovely person help me from a different thread, but in the end we never figured out what the problem was--I just scorched earth reinstalled windows from the ground up.

[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.

[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 AnandK96 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 Anandk96'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

[ShadowMax]

Unable to start the screen with White screen issue, tried the solutions mentioned :

- Changed the Compatibility Mode to Windows 95 in the exe
- Set to run as Administrator
- Did the "Settings.ini"

Still the same, I believe the graphic card is not compatible especially with Nvidia 3080 drivers.

My computer:
i5 8400K
RTX 3080
32 GB DDR4 RAM
2 TB m.2 SSD
Windows 10 Pro

Not sure on what to do from here.

[SaicoTek]

HELLO, It took me a hot minute to fix it and I thought I never would. Run it on your MAIN DRIVE, not a hard drive or whatever. Download it to your C drive or whatever windows is on. Any game on DX is like that

[ShadowMax]

Originally posted by SaicoTek:

HELLO, It took me a hot minute to fix it and I thought I never would. Run it on your MAIN DRIVE, not a hard drive or whatever. Download it to your C drive or whatever windows is on. Any game on DX is like that

It worked, thank you.

[bunyarg2]

If anyone's still struggling like i was, i just installed directx that was in the directx folder and it plays again!

[Kraz]

Can't get this to launch properly. Get the white screen of death - when set for Win95 compatibility I see the LucasArts intro, the CTD.

Tried reinstalling Directx from the folder as well, no luck. Anyone else still struggling with this?

DEll XPS 13 9360

[lvngbth]

Was working.. several months of Windows updates later, it no longer is.

I will try some of the suggestions here.

[lvngbth]

Using Windows Explorer to set compatibility to WIndows 95 and 'run as administrator' worked for me.

[lvngbth]

Argh, it did work and now it's not again.

I don't know who is to blame for this state of affairs, but they should be fired out of a cannon with only a saucepan on their head...

[Lil Stink Cheese]

Originally posted by lvngbth:

Argh, it did work and now it's not again.

I don't know who is to blame for this state of affairs, but they should be fired out of a cannon with only a saucepan on their head...

any luck/update? Tried all fixes above and i havent launched successfully once