Why is my game a black screen on startup?

[afterdark]

I swear this game is nothing but problems. After wasting an entire night fixing Visual Studio it finally launches with the nerve to be nothign but a frozen black screen. there is no fix in nvidia control panel you can not set which graphic processor it uses.

[Dodece]

Open file explorer, Steam, steamapps, Common, Skyrim Special Edition. Then run the following files as administrator in this particular order. SkyrimSE.exe, and SkyrimSElauncher.exe. This is a fix I used for the black screen of death on the previous version of the game. Which started to have this exact same problem after I upgraded to windows 10.

Please respond to this post if my fix works for you, because I have no way of knowing whether it works or not on the special edition as I am having no issues with the special edition.

[✠ Sigmar ✠]

I second that: The game is not the problem, Windows 10 is. And when I started from the exe directly, there was no black screen problem anymore.

[afterdark]

im in windows 7. and get this ... the fix to the black screen of death is.....waiting a few min? WTF . bethesda is a joke.

[opjose]

Black screens = Driver problem, lack of resources, sub-minimum spec video card, or resolution that computer cannot handle when rendering 3D.

If you have "exactly this problem" always start by going to

Steam / Help / System information

which lists what the games see in terms of hardware, and cut and past the result into a new thread asking for help.

[Quevik]

Black screen usually means your monitor is off.

[afterdark]

Originally posted by opjose:

Black screens = Driver problem, lack of resources, sub-minimum spec video card, or resolution that computer cannot handle when rendering 3D.

If you have "exactly this problem" always start by going to

Steam / Help / System information

which lists what the games see in terms of hardware, and cut and past the result into a new thread asking for help.

lol

[afterdark]

Originally posted by Quevik:

Black screen usually means your monitor is off.

lol

[cheshirm]

pinned thread top of this forum called "The Unofficial Bug / Crash + Resolution Thread"
http://steamcommunity.com/app/489830/discussions/0/312265473877856791/
full of troubleshooting tips.

[afterdark]

Originally posted by cheshirm:

pinned thread top of this forum called "The Unofficial Bug / Crash + Resolution Thread"
http://steamcommunity.com/app/489830/discussions/0/312265473877856791/
full of troubleshooting tips.

thank you for being honest. i think im giving up on this "Special" edition though.