Fix for black screen on start

Guide to fix black screen on start, were the game has a black screen and is unresponsive.
Should also fix black screen on Alt + Tab

This guide covers users who use MSI Afterburner with Riva Tuner installed.

Will update if other solutions become available.

Disable Crysis 3 in RivaTuner

• Open MSI Afterburner and click on the settings button.
   
   
  
• (1) Goto the 'On-screen Display' tab
  
  (2) click the 'More' button.
   
   
  
• (1) Click the 'Add' button and navigate to your Crysis 3 executable (Crysis3.exe), located in 'Steam\steamapps\common\Crysis 3\Bin32'.
  
  (2) Select the game in the list.
  
  (3) Select 'None' under 'Application detection level'
  
   
   
  
• You can now close the window and play the game ^_^

[Menkay]

I don't know if someone can help me when I try to run crysis 2 maximum edition I can't install visual cc+ and after "installation" it gives an error: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect

[DAŞDÜŞEBÜLÜ]

oyunun bazı konuşmarı eksik mesale giriş konuşması yok baş oyuncunun bu sorunu çözelim

[Papazhoom]

nice

[S W I F T • L I G H T I N G]

Thanks dude, its worked for me.

[El.grigore]

This worked! Nice one and thanks for that.

[Lucifer_]

disabling origin overlay worked no need to mess with rtss

[bernie]

I had a blacksreen with green cursor without sound right from the start. Had to disable "Origin In Game" overlay under settings at the Origin app and it fixed it. Running afterburner with nVidia SLI cards.

[DEATHCORE]

how to find all of this in radeon 20.4.1

[Lüscha]

thanks very much, that really did it for me :D

[Staalby]

This worked!