Game boots to black screen with only sound

[AJawesomesauce]

This problem just started today I'm already about 17 hours into the game now itll only boot a black screen with music/sound I can hear menus being selected and get to a level even but there are no visuals. Ive already tried-
1.Rebooting Steam
2.Run as Admin
3.Reboot PC
4.Restart Server service

[Young Erusean Officer]

What's your GPU?

[AJawesomesauce]

GeForce 940mx, all my other games run on this and they still work fine.

[Young Erusean Officer]

See if V-sync is turned on outside the game.

[󠀡󠀡󠀡⁧⁧the.jester]

If you are using windows 10 you could try disabling full screen optimizations.

If it's only just started happening when it was works, something must have changed. Did you install any updates? driver? windows october update?

[AJawesomesauce]

Originally posted by Huemaster:

See if V-sync is turned on outside the game.

Tried turning it on and off with Nvidia Control Panel, didnt make any difference.

[AJawesomesauce]

Originally posted by the.jester:

If you are using windows 10 you could try disabling full screen optimizations.

If it's only just started happening when it was works, something must have changed. Did you install any updates? driver? windows october update?

I updated my Nvidia drivers

[AJawesomesauce]

Update-I re-installed the game also, did not fix the the problem

[AJawesomesauce]

Also disabling full screen optimizations did nothing. I tried running on Integrated graphics and it worked, this is of course slightly annoying since the game doesnt look as good. So for some reason the game just suddenly doesnt wanna run on my 940 mx :/

[Young Erusean Officer]

Check this article and try everything:
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1216-JMTZ-0860

[AJawesomesauce]

Originally posted by Huemaster:

Check this article and try everything:
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1216-JMTZ-0860

None of that stuff worked

[Young Erusean Officer]

Are you sure if you followed the steps correctly?

If so go to your VC4 steam folder and make a shortcut of the exe:

Right Click on the Shortcut and select " Properties "

In the " Target " line, after the quotation marks ( " ) append the end with " -windowed " e.g.

game.exe" -windowed

[Sugoi]

My guess would be that this is caused by the game outputting at some combination of resolution and refresh that your monitor doesn't support.

You might want to back up your saves somewhere else, delete them and the system save, and restart the game. This should default to 1080/60 windowed fullscreen, which your monitor hopefully can handle just fine.

[Young Erusean Officer]

Yeah that's likely his problem for some reason or another his resolution changed.

[AJawesomesauce]

Originally posted by Sugoi:

My guess would be that this is caused by the game outputting at some combination of resolution and refresh that your monitor doesn't support.

You might want to back up your saves somewhere else, delete them and the system save, and restart the game. This should default to 1080/60 windowed fullscreen, which your monitor hopefully can handle just fine.

Where do I find the save files? If thats the case it seems odd that it would work on the integrated graphics and not my 940mx

[Sugoi]

Originally posted by AJawesomesauce:

Where do I find the save files? If thats the case it seems odd that it would work on the integrated graphics and not my 940mx

Sorry for not replying sooner. c:\users\<user>\documents\SEGA\VC4