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#2: Hit ESC or space bar after the game starts and you get a black screen until in the main menu.
#3: If #2 is the thing then do a proper shut down and restart of the device.
If you have a technical issue you need to provide relevant information, not just "I have this issue." and then get grumpy when someone points at the search function just as half-assed as you created your thread. You didn't even write when and where you get a black screen, what you've tried already or what's your OS.
You wouldn't believe the kind of a-holes there is where I live, so I unfortunately got used to awful messages to genuine questions I need answers to...
Again, sorry for the frustrated comment.
Got to reboot. Something in those ancient 'xact' libraries or something like that gets stuck in a bad state.
Prevents any of the many of the assets from playing, like the intros, voiceovers etc.
Usually accompanied by a lack of sound FX in the game.
Maybe if you are a registry guru you can do it without reboot, but for the rest of us...
Logout/login will not do it.
Sleep/suspend and wake it up won't do it.
'fake shutdown' won't do it.
Closing and restarting steam will not do it.
Reboot windows.
Unfortunately many people try a lot of things first (some of which require reboot) and attribute it not to the reboot but their reinstall of some driver or something.
Fast boot is a partial hibernation where the kernel state is saved to a file on your hard drive and loaded when the computer boots. However if you do this your computer doesn't fully reboot, I checked task manager and it told me my computer had been on for 25 days. I disabled fast boot, then rebooted the computer and now FA works again, no more broken video.
The root of the issue is twofold, first, SCFA is an old application, and isn't really aware of what happens with the audio devices - in it's day - even having one audio device wasn't always a given. These days, most machines may have several.
Second, the way in which devices can go into 'hibernation' when not being used, and how they are woken up, is something SCFA is entirely unaware of, and as such, SCFA will think it's talking to an audio device that may not only have gone to sleep, but may actually have been removed or replaced by another.
Either way - this solution should address most of the problem - but of course, others have to listen.
I have the notion that win10 restart uses the old-fashioned clean-startup method we used to take for granted with e.g. win7. Meaning that I can have fast (unclean) startup enabled, and "simply" restart when I want to be sure a change or update has taken effect. Is this correct?
(My win10 laptop isn't suitable for gaming but I am curious.)
I do upgrades (which usually involve a reboot) most Saturdays. My uptime says 1:13:58:ss, which suggests it did reset after the most recent update/restart.
https://www.ninjaone.com/script-hub/how-to-disable-fast-startup-in-windows/
I had no idea this was a thing because the option is hidden away. You have to go to the win10 power setting screen, click a link on the side of that, click a link on the side of that, and then click some blue text to unlock options so that you can change them and only then can you turn fast boot off. Again, I had no idea this existed until I had to troubleshoot supcom.