Game not launching.

[Shoony]

It's been a bunch of days now, and whenever i launch the game from either Steam or the game's files, i always get stuck on a black screen that i can't exit, meaning that i have to hard restart my computer.

So far i've tried to re-download the game, verify the files, set the game as an exclusion in my firewall, updated my drivers.

I'm also not recieving any crashe reports.

Any fixes ? Thanks in advance.

[Lil C]-[ew C]-[ew is ☂д☂]

I can tell for sure the game directory won't start at all without Steam application running in the background so don't bother trying the game executable. Secondly there is a warning about if your video card driver may be outdated and suggest to either get a newer driver or play as it.
In my case I am running with outdated driver like 5 months but my gpu is handling fine so far.
Are you getting this warning before going to to the game cinematic entrance? If not then your files may be corrupted. In fact I admit when I've downloaded the game for the first time couple nights ago. The entire download got corrupted and had to be verified all over again. After that procedure, the game itself executed fine.

[Shoony]

I'm not getting any warnings and i did verify the game's cash multiple times.

[Thumper]

Rather then update you may have to roll-back your drivers. Depending on how old they are. My AMD had to be rolled back to 11.22 for DE to continue working. Anything newer it would crash.

[White Lion]

I also had this issue, but even worse. There was a time when it show black screen and there was a time when it did not show any black screen, but my mouse stutter when moving and everything was not responsive, as if some heavy background process was still consuming CPU usage.

I tried many things as well, including:
1. reinstalling
2. verify game integrity files in Steam
3. use administrator account when running the game
4. repairing Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable
5. restarting PC
6. disabling antivirus features
7. changing CPU affinity

But none of the above worked. But then finally I ran a command in command prompt to check corrupted Windows files:

sfc /scannow

Then it finally work. Just make sure that you run command prompt as administrator and the result of the above command is successful. It took around 10-15 minutes to complete. The game finally work after that for me. Perhaps you can try it.

[gamachala]

GEFORCE EXPERIENCE for drivers

[Shoony]

Well, i tried as much things i could do that was suggested above, game launched once and not again.
Ever since i re-installed the game some weeks ago, it only successfully launched a total of 3 times, including today.

[RJX3029]

Could try ddu to reinstall the driver and see if that fixes it. Get it totally uninstalled and the go for it.

[Jayombi]

I had this just myself coming back to Doom. Something about missing file privileges in red though came up for me. I made sure the drive was open to all on computer admin or not ..

Now it works.