Black screen after starting a game

[ThreeStep]

Hello

My game used to work fine until few days ago, but now whenever I launch it I just get a black screen and nothing else. I have reinstalled it, restarted computer, reinstalled in a different folder, deleted AppData files - no results.

I even tried to run it in Windows Vista compatibility mode (I'm on Windows 7) but did not get any results.

[SMG Studio]

Oh sorry for no reply. This is a weird bug. And computer is set to EN as we've had some issues with other languages or Sth Africa due to the use of , instead of . in numbers.

[ThreeStep]

Computer is in EN, no problems there. Turns out something was wrong with my save, and since steam kept everything synchronized with cloud - the problem repeated itself on any computer I tried.

Once I deleted my save file and turned off steam synchronization I was able to launch the game again. Not sure what happened there, but I'm happy that it works now

[SMG Studio]

Originally posted by ThreeStep:

Computer is in EN, no problems there. Turns out something was wrong with my save, and since steam kept everything synchronized with cloud - the problem repeated itself on any computer I tried.

Once I deleted my save file and turned off steam synchronization I was able to launch the game again. Not sure what happened there, but I'm happy that it works now

ohh interesting and thanks for fixing. We should maybe add an error check for bad save.

[Eleihun]

Originally posted by ThreeStep:

Computer is in EN, no problems there. Turns out something was wrong with my save, and since steam kept everything synchronized with cloud - the problem repeated itself on any computer I tried.

Once I deleted my save file and turned off steam synchronization I was able to launch the game again. Not sure what happened there, but I'm happy that it works now

Hi,
I seem to have the same issue, black screen on load. Can you tell me where the save files are to delete as I can't seem to find them. Thanks.

[Zakonelli]

Where are the game save files I need help with the black screen issue. I bought game with a few friends and now we can't play because of this :(

[ThreeStep]

Originally posted by Eleihun:

Hi,
I seem to have the same issue, black screen on load. Can you tell me where the save files are to delete as I can't seem to find them. Thanks.

Originally posted by 🍍Zakonelli🍍:

Where are the game save files I need help with the black screen issue. I bought game with a few friends and now we can't play because of this :(

Sorry for the late reply, just saw these. This sort of info can be found on pc gaming wiki here - https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Death_Squared

For Windows they are located at %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\SMG Studio\Death Squared\Saves

[Eleihun]

Thanks dude. Appreciate the reply. I didn't know about pcgamingwiki, so that will be useful. Unfortunately it didn't solve my problem. Still just getting a black screen and background music on load and have to esc 3 times to exit. Will have to shelve it again for now. Thanks again :)

[Zakonelli]

Originally posted by ThreeStep:

Originally posted by Eleihun:

Hi,
I seem to have the same issue, black screen on load. Can you tell me where the save files are to delete as I can't seem to find them. Thanks.

Originally posted by 🍍Zakonelli🍍:

Where are the game save files I need help with the black screen issue. I bought game with a few friends and now we can't play because of this :(

Sorry for the late reply, just saw these. This sort of info can be found on pc gaming wiki here - https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Death_Squared

For Windows they are located at %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\SMG Studio\Death Squared\Saves

Thankyouuuuuuuuuuuuuuu It fixed my game and also that link is useful thanks for that I'll use that in future :). Me and my friends appreciate!

[ThreeStep]

Originally posted by Eleihun:

Thanks dude. Appreciate the reply. I didn't know about pcgamingwiki, so that will be useful. Unfortunately it didn't solve my problem. Still just getting a black screen and background music on load and have to esc 3 times to exit. Will have to shelve it again for now. Thanks again :)

Did you turn off steam cloud sync for the game? If not then it redownloaded the broken save file from steam cloud. I had that happen to myself the first time as well.
Check the folder with saves again, if the save is restored then it must've been re-downloaded. If it's empty then I have no idea, must be something else.

[SMG Studio]

We're jumping back into DS this week and next to resolve this and do some other fixes. Sorry all