Game Launches with White Screen

[Clothmanz]

So I went to open the game a bit ago, and it crashed right before getting to the title screen. I thought whatever and reset the game. When it launched back up, the screen was entirely white and only the sound was playing. Does anyone know what causes this or how i can fix it? I've tried reinstalling the game and resetting my computer but nothing works.

[drojf]

Did the game ever launch successfully before? I was thinking it might by a corrupted global save file.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, on the unmodded version of the game, Steam Cloud will restore your saves even after you delete them. So you have to disable Steam Cloud for Umineko before deleting any files.

> I've tried reinstalling the game and resetting my computer but nothing works.

Try completely deleting your game folder (i'm not sure that uninstalling removes your save files).

It's located somewhere like: c:\program files\Steam\steamapps\common\Umineko . Specifically, the 'saves' folder has your saves.

i'm not too confident that this will fix it, as I've never seen that issue before...

[Oyasumi]

Had the same problem with ch.1, but with a black screen

[Oyasumi]

In higurashi ch.1

[Oyasumi]

Not umineko ch.1

[drojf]

Would suggest you contact 07th-mod on their discord server about this issue, I'm assuming you have the mod installed.

If you don't have the mod installed but still have this issue, you may want to try re-installing the game (make sure the game folder is fully deleted before re-installing).

[CardinalS1]

Anyone found a fix for this? i have had the exact same issue

[drojf]

I forgot to mention, on the unmodded version of the game, Steam Cloud will restore your saves even after you delete them. So you have to disable Steam Cloud for Umineko before deleting the files.

You can turn it back on later if you get it working.

[drojf]

On discord, CardinalSin05 reported that disabling Steam Cloud, then deleting saves fixed the problem.

If you want to keep your saves, you could also try:

1. Backup your (corrupted) saves to some other folder
2. Disable Steam Cloud
3. Delete your saves (the `saves` folder, and also the `mysav` folder if it exists)
4. Boot the game and launch Episode 1
5. Create a save in slot 1
6. Quit the game
7. In the save folder, overwrite the `save1.dat` file with the backed up save from earlier of your choice.
9. Re-launch the game and try loading the save
8. If everything is OK, re-enable Steam Cloud, and choose to upload your local saves to Cloud if it asks you.