Almost all games black screen on start up

[antonchipurrh]

So pretty much every game I've tried to play recently just black screens on startup and I have to ctrl alt del to sign out if I wanna end the program. A few games still work and this only started like 2 days ago so I've got no clue what's going on.

I've tried looking at multiple threads here and none of them have had a solution that worked for me.

[The Giving One]

1. Give some examples of some games that do this and where you see this happen.

2. Post your complete system specs. Go to "help" in the top of Steam, then "System information". Right click, "select all" and "copy" then "paste" all that here.

More information may be requested to try to help you with the problem.

[antonchipurrh]

Almost all of my games are not working. BL2 and Xenoverse 2 are like the only two that still work.

Seriously I know people do the whole "did you try turning it on and off, reinstalling, updating windows, updating your drivers, verifying game cache, reverifying directx, etc". I've tried all this ♥♥♥♥ and some of these games worked for a day, and then next day wham they're all black screens again. I might also add that these games worked just dandy (some for years) and then suddenly all of them are broken.

Specs:

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x5e
CPU Stepping: 0x3
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 4008 Mhz
8 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported

Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 24.21.13.9882
DirectX Driver Version: 24.21.13.9882
Driver Date: 7 30 2018
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x13c2
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 3840 x 2160
Desktop Resolution: 3840 x 2160
Primary Display Size: 62.99" x 35.43" (72.24" diag)
160.0cm x 90.0cm (183.5cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 4095 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (Realtek High Definiti

Memory:
RAM: 16305 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: Undetermined
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 1075277 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 224783 Mb
OS Install Date: Dec 31 1969
Game Controller: XInput Controller #1 detected
VR Headset: None detected

[かぐや]

I'm guessing corrupted GPU drivers.
I suggest to do full GPU driver reinstall. Get "Display Driver Uninstaller" to wipe all GPU driver traces. Then reinstall nvidia drivers after that.

Almost same problem was here before, but almost all games crashed instantly during startup. This solution did fix the problem.