Scum Black Screen

[IceBox326]

This is My Laptop Account I bought Scum A while ago to enjoy on my secondary account...Was running awesome for quite a while until just recently I believe Last Update I can no Longer load game no sound just black screen No Error messages No nothing just black screen and i can sit there with it up over a hour nothing happens to load I have tried Screen res adjustments I have a ssd My Book plugged into laptop to run game to free disk space as this worked before when i had problems with overloading disk space on laptop before my laptop meets all required specs except for RAM i have 12GB Game asks for 16...But As STated Above Ran just fine before I have tried to load in Compatibilty mode [Nothing] I have tried vulkan mode And directx mode still nothing...I Dnt Understand why it worked just fine before and now it does NOT....Very weird to me....processor is I7. Anyways any help or thoughts maybe some input would help Thanks....

[Deathwhisper]

Hello :),

It gets more difficult with the 12 GB RAM, because that means you are below the minimum requirements and unfortunately there is no guarantee that a workaround will work.

As a first step, I would recommend the Basic Troubleshooting to see if that helps.

For more advanced troubleshooting, however, we would need to know your complete system properties.

[xKiCkx]

Hey there OP, as Deathwhisper said you will need more ram, but aside from that, can you please post your whole system specification?

[IceBox326]

why would i need more ram if it worked before?.......

[IceBox326]

intel core i7-4700mq cpu @ 2.40 Ghz 2.40GHz
12 gb ram
x64 bit operating system

[IceBox326]

Like i Stated above i played on this laptop THIS Very game for A Whole Year Why All of a sudden would that change...

[IceBox326]

I can Load And Play Other games too that they say this laptop CANT do...Cause of system requirements. so i dont think its a hardware issue unless they totally changed the game last update...

[Deathwhisper]

I'm not saying it's impossible, but there's no guarantee that it will work because 12 GB of RAM isn't enough to handle the data traffic.

Which GPU are you using?

[IceBox326]

you will prolly just say gpu is too old or doesnt support so whats the point.... when it played just fine before all these last updates lol

[Deathwhisper]

Originally posted by IceBox326:

you will prolly just say gpu is too old or doesnt support so whats the point.... when it played just fine before all these last updates lol

Look, we don't mean that in a bad or derogatory way, we're just trying to help you, but we also have to point out that the cause could well lie here.

In order to help you better and to be able to estimate whether something can be done or whether we can give advice, we need to know all of your hardware. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to give you any advice about what we could possibly try.

[IceBox326]

display adapters- Intel (R) HD 4600
and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M

[IceBox326]

also why does game give option for start up using a desktop icon when indeed the desktop icon isnt linked to steam because it wont load my profile doing it that way is the ONLY error message i get Everytime i start it from steam no error message but just black screen, and in task manager says scum isnt responding i can load games newer then this one??

[IceBox326]

Ive seen where people say this game loads alot of content on startup i get that.... thats why i used a external drive for the added disk space what appears to be happening now is something changed with either Anti cheat service (not knowing what my computer is to not allow game to load) OR something not sure what changed on startup...

[daw593server]

Icebox326,

I tested SCUM on an ancient I5 Lenovo Thinkpad with on-board Intel graphics (it had an SSD) a while ago and SCUM ran, albeit after a loooong startup delay and at around 2 FPS. Based on this, I don't think your GTX 770M graphics card is to blame. The ThinkPad did have 16GB of RAM though.

Memory is definitely an issue. Everyone on my admin team (and the server owner) has at least 16MB of RAM; those that have exactly 16MB have to be mindful of running other high-memory use programs in the background.

Are you running other programs simultaneously with SCUM? For example, Chrome grabs about 2GB of RAM and can require a lot more depending on what you are doing. Running programs in the background, or an update to one of these programs, could push a borderline RAM situation into the red, which could explain why SCUM ran previously. Try opening SCUM without other programs running (Steam only requires around 400-500MB, so it should be OK).

As Deathwhisperer said, be sure to run through the basic troubleshooting she directed you to.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Sarah

[daw593server]

Icebox326,

One other thing. Were you running SCUM from your external SSD before (when it opened)?

Sarah

[IceBox326]

yes external to save disk space as this is a laptop