Infinite Black Screen after Capcom Logo

[SamPlaysVG]

I'm aware there's a lot of posts about black screens for this game. I've given a meaty chunk of them a try already, but I haven't had any luck with a solution, so I'm hoping someone else might know something that hasn't been said.

But the game won't boot beyond the Capcom logo. Enters an infinite black screen and just...doesn't proceed at all. I've already tried the following;

• Booting the game as an administrator.
  
• Reinstalling Steam.
  
• Disabling the Steam overlay.
  
• Disabling Nvidia Ansel.
  
• Verifying the game integrity.
  
• Uninstalling iCUE.
  
• Rebooting after uninstalling iCUE.
  
• Uninstalling Nvidia drivers and doing a clean installation.
  
• Reinstalling the game.
  
• Twice.
  
• Ensuring there's no SpecialK installed for the game.
  
• Disabling Steam Big Picture mode for the game, and then entirely.
  
• Disconnecting unnecessary USB devices, because why not.
  
• Moving the game to another HDD.
  
• Moving the game to my SSD (which briefly fixed it last night! But it's not working today...)
  
• Leaving the game at that black screen for an hour, which didn't do anything.

Does anyone know anything at all that can help here? Because right now, I'm sitting on a dead game that I'd really love to hop back in and play...but really cannot, even after hours of troubleshooting :(

Thanks in advance!

[Kaldaien]

The part about "ensuring there's no SpecialK installed" might be counter-productive :)

I'll try to assist you if you can provide logs that Special K generates. Refer to the troubleshooting section of the guide for this game.

[SamPlaysVG]

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

The part about "ensuring there's no SpecialK installed" might be counter-productive :)

I'll try to assist you if you can provide logs that Special K generates. Refer to the troubleshooting section of the guide for this game.

Aha, let's hope! There were suggestions that it sometimes caused launch problems, but removing it definitely didn't solve anything, haha.

Thanks for offering to help though! Logs are below;

dxgi - https://pastebin.com/2FymH77V
modules - https://pastebin.com/22ptPnmb
game_output - https://pastebin.com/j3AR3zv1

[Kaldaien]

Unfortunately I don't see anything immediately wrong here :-\

The only thing that sticks out is dsound.dll, my logs do not include that. But I don't see any third-party sound software in your logs.

[SamPlaysVG]

Yeah, I don't have any third-party audio software installed that I know of. Elgato Sound Capture, but that's about it.

Thanks anyway though, I appreciate the help and shall keep looking for a solution! :)

[Kapaya]

Hey, did you ever resolve this issue? I just grabbed a new GPU, the RTX 2060, and when I wanted to start playing MHW, it updated the game, and ever since I have this issue. Tried uninstalling iCUE but still doesn't work :/

[Unknown]

Got the same issue, checked drivers, restarted computer, deleted graphic settings to reset them to default, nothing

[Kiggles]

Looks lke the problem is installed mods - lots of vanity mods are OK, but rebalances, from drop rate to damage will probably causing the hang, and likely require an update if not outright removal.

Move the NativePC directory outside the MHW directory to see if you can get to title menu.

From there, readd your mods one by one and find your culprits.

[Kapaya]

Originally posted by Unknown:

Got the same issue, checked drivers, restarted computer, deleted graphic settings to reset them to default, nothing

Like the reply below you said, it turned out the issue for me was the mods. I did a clean install of all mods and it worked fine.

[[Ж] ATwelveYearOldGirl]

Originally posted by Kapaya:

Originally posted by Unknown:

Got the same issue, checked drivers, restarted computer, deleted graphic settings to reset them to default, nothing

Like the reply below you said, it turned out the issue for me was the mods. I did a clean install of all mods and it worked fine.

This was the same for me too, not sure which mod caused issues, but I'm going to research and start making a list of incompatible mods or something of the sort, thanks for this

[Jingleheimer]

Originally posted by Treat (Kiggles):

Looks lke the problem is installed mods - lots of vanity mods are OK, but rebalances, from drop rate to damage will probably causing the hang, and likely require an update if not outright removal.

Move the NativePC directory outside the MHW directory to see if you can get to title menu.

From there, readd your mods one by one and find your culprits.

This worked for me, thank you.

I though validating the game files would remove all the mods I had. Apparently not, it left that folder alone including my extremely out of date mods from the last time I played this game.

[HHYato]

Originally posted by Treat (Kiggles):

Looks lke the problem is installed mods - lots of vanity mods are OK, but rebalances, from drop rate to damage will probably causing the hang, and likely require an update if not outright removal.

Move the NativePC directory outside the MHW directory to see if you can get to title menu.

From there, readd your mods one by one and find your culprits.

thank u

[Jonglenaut]

maybe a bit late to this party, but for me it was also the mods causing this problem. I hadn't played this games for at least a year or what is it. I simply deleted exe. files and dll.'s in the root folder and had steam verify the integrity and replace them.

[Lurk]

Had this issue, I renamed nativePC, then i made a fresh nativePC folder, reinstalled my mods and the game worked perfectly

[CLIPS]

I have the same issue but I do not use MODS. Cannot get the game to work

[Gutterhoor]

I also cannot get my game to work. I have no mods installed... Anyone find a fix?