Black screen after logo on startup

[Skoppter]

Any fixes for this?

[🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊]

This is normal and should only last a few seconds. Does it stay black and never load for you?

Did it ever work for you? Or did you just buy the game for the first time?

[Skoppter]

It goes black and then crashes. No error in event viewer either. I just got the game. I play everything from Modern warfare on max settings to Minecraft without errors so i'm a bit confused.

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Originally posted by Maximus Decimus Meridius:

It goes black and then crashes. No error in event viewer either. I just got the game. I play everything from Modern warfare on max settings to Minecraft without errors so i'm a bit confused.

Could you share your system specs? GPU, CPU, and how much system ram you have.

[Skoppter]

Sure,

MOBO: ASROCK X570 Taichi
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X ~4.3 GHZ
GPU: MSI RTX 2070 (Latest drivers)
RAM: 16GB Gskill 3200mhz (Properly Clocked in BIOS)
SSD: Sabrent Rocket NVM 4.0
PSU:1000W Corsair
OS: Windows 10 HOME (Latest Update)

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Originally posted by Maximus Decimus Meridius:

Sure,

MOBO: ASROCK X570 Taichi
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X ~4.3 GHZ
GPU: MSI RTX 2070 (Latest drivers)
RAM: 16GB Gskill 3200mhz (Properly Clocked in BIOS)
SSD: Sabrent Rocket NVM 4.0
PSU:1000W Corsair
OS: Windows 10 HOME (Latest Update)

Well that easily is well above what's needed to run this game. That's really weird. :(

The only thing I can think of suggesting is perhaps something was corrupted when you installed the game. Unlikely but possible. Perhaps try this: Go in steam client, right-click the game in your library and go to properties -> local files tab -> browse local files button -> when you see the folder for the game on your system, go up one folder above it. Then uninstall from the steam client and then use the explorer window to delete the game's folder to make sure all game files are gone then re-install it from steam. I'm on a similar system and sometimes I've had some steam gets get corrupted like this and a complete wipe of the game's folder and re-install has fixed it for me.

[simonhobnob]

Hmm, yeah should work.

Can you check your firewall on windows (or router if it's hardware based) and ensure satisfactory and steam are firewall allowed? Only thing I can think of is it's trying to connect to the epic servers and can't.

[Mr Titus R]

I've downloaded twice now, attempted to verify once, but after an hour, i closed it. Took FOREVER compared to many other games i've done this with. Gotten new graphics drivers, compatibility mode... still nothing. Downloading a 3rd time now just to rule out download errors.

All i get when i click on launch, is a 4-6 second delay before the large splash logo, then i get a black screen, which as i watch task manager on my second monitor, it is doing something.... then just stops trying anything, and shows 'Not Responding'... and then, that's it. No error messages of any type, just a repeated failure to launch.

My specs are well enough, i'm sure. i7-4900k, 16G ram, GTX 1060.... not the top by any means, but well capable enough. I hope something comes about on this particular thread.

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Originally posted by Mr Titus:

I've downloaded twice now, attempted to verify once, but after an hour, i closed it. Took FOREVER compared to many other games i've done this with. Gotten new graphics drivers, compatibility mode... still nothing. Downloading a 3rd time now just to rule out download errors.

All i get when i click on launch, is a 4-6 second delay before the large splash logo, then i get a black screen, which as i watch task manager on my second monitor, it is doing something.... then just stops trying anything, and shows 'Not Responding'... and then, that's it. No error messages of any type, just a repeated failure to launch.

My specs are well enough, i'm sure. i7-4900k, 16G ram, GTX 1060.... not the top by any means, but well capable enough. I hope something comes about on this particular thread.

A quick note I just thought of: Do you have any "Overlay" apps running? Like MSI Afterburner's on screen display. Or FRAPS. Or OBS recording the screen. If you have any of those, close all of em and try again.

[sansee]

Start the game directly. When starting with Steam it won't always give you the error message (or you can check the logs).

Like this:

C:\steamlibrary\steamapps\common\Satisfactory\FactoryGame.exe

Helped another one the other day and when he ran the game directly he found out the error was in directx.

[Skoppter]

Hey guys, I tried just about everything mentioned to no avail. I ended up entering the code and doing an SFC /scanning command and it fixed a corrupted file. After this it started working. I appreciate all the help though everyone.

[sansee]

Originally posted by Maximus Decimus Meridius:

Hey guys, I tried just about everything mentioned to no avail. I ended up entering the code and doing an SFC /scanning command and it fixed a corrupted file. After this it started working. I appreciate all the help though everyone.

Nice. Can I ask which file was corrupted? Was it a Windows sys file (library), and not related to the game?

[Skoppter]

Originally posted by sansee:

Originally posted by Maximus Decimus Meridius:

Hey guys, I tried just about everything mentioned to no avail. I ended up entering the code and doing an SFC /scanning command and it fixed a corrupted file. After this it started working. I appreciate all the help though everyone.

Nice. Can I ask which file was corrupted? Was it a Windows sys file (library), and not related to the game?

It appears to be a windows system file which is an odd occurrence especially on a relatively new OS install.

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For those wondering, the exact command is: SFC /scannow Not "SFC /scanning".

[sansee]

Originally posted by Maximus Decimus Meridius:

It appears to be a windows system file which is an odd occurrence especially on a relatively new OS install.

Well, in my experience anything can happen. I've had recent formatting (many times) and everything was working perfectly, except for one game due to directx/VS library that seems to need reinstall. I don't know, can be anything from a bit-flip in transit or Windows is eating itself...

Even Google and Sun estimated that there are at least 2-3 memory corruptions every months (and that was on high-end products), either due to radiation or other by other means. Shrinking the size will only make it worse.

[Mr Titus R]

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

Originally posted by Mr Titus:

I've downloaded twice now, attempted to verify once, but after an hour, i closed it. Took FOREVER compared to many other games i've done this with. Gotten new graphics drivers, compatibility mode... still nothing. Downloading a 3rd time now just to rule out download errors.

All i get when i click on launch, is a 4-6 second delay before the large splash logo, then i get a black screen, which as i watch task manager on my second monitor, it is doing something.... then just stops trying anything, and shows 'Not Responding'... and then, that's it. No error messages of any type, just a repeated failure to launch.

My specs are well enough, i'm sure. i7-4900k, 16G ram, GTX 1060.... not the top by any means, but well capable enough. I hope something comes about on this particular thread.

A quick note I just thought of: Do you have any "Overlay" apps running? Like MSI Afterburner's on screen display. Or FRAPS. Or OBS recording the screen. If you have any of those, close all of em and try again.

What eventually worked for me, was seeing that it was using the processor a little bit, and after waiting 15 minutes, it eventually started. I haven't run it again since, but i'll update if it keeps taking forever, or just a one time thing