black screen with cursor on start up (Hunt 1896)

[Chris_De_Unicorn]

loading up the new 1896 update and no luck...

was really excited to check out the new update, unfortunately it's not loading. I've accepted the firewall pop-up and even disabled all my firewalls and anti-virus, no luck...
updated graphics drivers, no luck
verify game cache, no luck
restart PC, no luck
delete User folder, no luck

it boots up into a black screen with the cursor then for a second the cursor goes away only to pop back up then the game crashes after about 5 minutes of waiting, this is almost 2 hours of trouble shooting and looking at forums.

Windows 10
Asus 1070ti
16gig ram
i7 11700k

I do have a crycrash_error.log in the game files it reads...

"----- FAILED TO GET SCREENSHOT -----
Exception Code: 0xC0000005
Exception Addr: 0x0033:0x00007FFB0F44AAA3
Exception Module: nvwgf2umx
Exception Description: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION, Attempt to read from address 0x0000000000002B8E

***UPDATE*** What fixed mine was updating windows 10 to the latest version. Hope this helps!
The memory could not be "read"
Memory in use: 4098.3MB
Debug Status:
Out of Memory: 0
MainThread Id: 2848
RenderThread Id: 20172
[Crashed] Thread Id: 17028
[Crashed] ThreadName:

[Crashed] Call Stack: ["ThreadNameUnknown" [17028]]"

[Lord Winchester]

same here

[.†xcl]

Same

[:3 UwUnya]

same :(

[Anger Manager]

Make sure your pc is up to date, game files verified, and that everything that needs to get past your firewall can. I had to manually add EAC even though it was already in my firewall list.

[Arsenikum]

1070. same

[dovahkiin]

same

[NeveseR]

same

[Imaginos]

Same here

[Chris_De_Unicorn]

Anyone have any luck? I tried every step I can think of and that I've read online.
I'm going to post what I've tried just incase it helps someone else (But I'm still black screened)

You can change the resolution settings and even full screen, windowed etc in this directory...

SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Hunt Showdown\USER
in "game.cfg"
r_WindowType = 3

2 means windowed, 3 means full screen, 1 something else... not sure.
In that file you can also change the width and height of the screen so if it is a resolution issue there'd be your fix.

I've followed all the steps in this video by "MenakaTechWorld" to no success all the steps they listed in their video were...

Step 1) Restart PC, verify the game files
Step 2) If you are using any third-party antivirus allow the game exe to your antivirus program. Windows Security users allow the game exe file to controlled folder access and firewall
Step 3) delete Shaders folder
Step 4) Delete the USER folder (This will reset all of your in-game settings/In game settings will be lost)
Step 5) Run the game as an administrator from the game installation folder, try running the game in compatibility mode
Step 6) Perform a clean installation of graphics driver
Step 7) Run the game on dedicated graphics card
Step 8) Try -dx11/-d3d11/-dx12
Step 9) Roll back graphics driver
Step 10) Install Visual C++ Files
Step 11) Update your Windows
Step 12) Increase the Virtual Memory:
View Advanced system settings
Initial Size: 1.5 x Total Ram
Maximum Size: 3 X Total Ram
Step 13) Unplug external devices such as hotas, pedals, racing wheel, Razer Tartarus, disconnect all the additional USB adapter connected to PC, disconnect additional joystick/controllers connected. Disable Overlay, close all the overlay apps (Discord, GeForce Experience, Nvidia shadow play overlay, AMD overlay). Close all the overclocking application MSI Afterburner/Rivatuner, perform clean boot, remove the undervolt
Step 14) Uninstall the game, go to the game installation folder and delete the game folder, restart your PC, and reinstall the game to C Drive/if already installed to C drive, then install the game to another SSD

The only things I've not tried are
- update windows (I produce music so that's not happening until current projects are finished)
- run the game on dedicated graphics (hahahaha good joke)
- uninstall the game and reinstall on C drive.

my games drive is a HDD not SSD and it's not on the main C drive, I can't be bothered to try that tbh.

Any fixes or info let me know!

[JHarlequin]

I had this and I alt tabbed then selected back into hunt and it started showing me the headset choice. Don't know about second start yet, trying to get a group, but I should restart just to see if it keeps doing weird things.

[a throng of lobsters]

same here, windows 10

[Chris_De_Unicorn]

trying windows update will let you know if it works...

[𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵]

Originally posted by Chris_De_Unicorn:

trying windows update will let you know if it works...

your version of windows 10?

[.†xcl]

Guys! Solution is update Windows 10 to 22h2

[Zdenko Rosina]

Same issue, nothing helped so far