What windows do I need to play?

[forevi]

I have windows 8.1 and my question is, is windows 10 required to play dead by daylight from now ? After the intro, my screen is black and I can't do anything about it.

[Fork]

I'm on windows 7 and the same issue is happening to me. There's a stupidly simple solution for each individual game launch. Open your steam page and just click on anything rapidly and make sure not to get forced out of steam (i found out that clicking on anything makes the game launch normally). Continue doing it until you hear intro's sound and then click on game's screen (this action skips my intro). I hope you can find a permanent solution tho;)

[Dakota]

forums has some posts about it with a few different fixes you could try

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/308708/black-screen-after-intro/p4

[forevi]

Originally posted by SS Aristarhov Maxim:

I'm on windows 7 and the same issue is happening to me. There's a stupidly simple solution for each individual game launch. Open your steam page and just click on anything rapidly and make sure not to get forced out of steam (i found out that clicking on anything makes the game launch normally). Continue doing it until you hear intro's sound and then click on game's screen (this action skips my intro). I hope you can find a permanent solution tho;)

it doesn't work for me
unfortunately ;c
but thanks and i wish you fix this!!

[forevi]

Originally posted by 𝔇𝔞𝔨𝔬𝔱𝔞:

forums has some posts about it with a few different fixes you could try

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/308708/black-screen-after-intro/p4

I've read it twice and none of it works

[Coffee Cat]

Windows 10 has been out for a while now (2015?) so I would assume that yes, Windows 10 will be what's supported now and for a long time.

Maybe you could try using a VM if you can't upgrade.

[Mr_Purple]

I'm not THAT kind of a person but you really should consider an upgrade to at least Win 10, man

[forevi]

Originally posted by Mr_Purple:

I'm not THAT kind of a person but you really should consider an upgrade to at least Win 10, man

I am considering completely changing my computer in the coming years but currently I don't have a budget and I have to be satisfied with what I have.
I do not hide my current hardware is not the best but it was enough for me until recently. Well, unfortunately, it is not enough now
Once I had windows 10 on my hardware it did not work well and I went back to 8.1 and I'm not going to reinstall windows 10 on my current hardware

[MamiFK]

I tried this game on Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 but still same black screen problem i have

[Silent Sword]

if you check the steam store page for DBD you will see that it says windows 10 Minimum ❕❕
but windows is not all the reason for black screen can happen cuz of some other reasons like Graphic card or Ram (your pc hardware)
check this and see what this website says about you running the game or not :
https://www.pcgamebenchmark.com/
still there can be other reasons like driver update or windows update or perhaps you didnt install all the requirements apps for the game (this one is very unlikely cuz it is steam ^_^)
or maybe your pc is not in a healthy state like damage in some hardware and needs fix ❕
Also this might help too :
https://gamerinfo.net/game/dead-by-daylight/technical-issues/
in the end i strongly suggest you ask DBD official support for help as in here there are mostly other players ^_^
if you see error code :
https://support.deadbydaylight.com/hc/en-us/sections/6715736670612-Error-Codes
DBD support Official :
https://support.deadbydaylight.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=191426
EAC Guide :
https://www.easy.ac/en-us/support/game/issues/guide/

[Jadedragon]

Originally posted by forevi:

Originally posted by Mr_Purple:

I'm not THAT kind of a person but you really should consider an upgrade to at least Win 10, man

I am considering completely changing my computer in the coming years but currently I don't have a budget and I have to be satisfied with what I have.
I do not hide my current hardware is not the best but it was enough for me until recently. Well, unfortunately, it is not enough now
Once I had windows 10 on my hardware it did not work well and I went back to 8.1 and I'm not going to reinstall windows 10 on my current hardware

Its a little off topic but if you alredy saving up money for something that fits make sure its windows 11. Win 10 will eventually run out in few years but 11 will stay, also you should consider a pc over laptop, i know towers are expensive but there are cheap ones, they just can do more than a laptop in general and sometimes cost the same even. I made a huge mistake and bought a "Gaming" laptop. That thing worked 2 years and then windows broke completly, not possible to get it back until you would send it to Lenovo them self. (very smart)
I got myself a good tower pc, with high graphic card and proccessors, yadda yadda, all you need to have no issiues with gaming and i litteraly payed nearly the same price. Like only 200 bucks more or something like that, cant quite recall. Just saying, all though its off topic i like to share this expierience so people dont get scammed with "gaming" branded laptops. They just take massive graphic cards who are actually good but they cut them down to fit in a laptop.