I've spent a bit of time trying to browse other forums looking for issues that might relate to the black screen issues found here. I focused primarily on Nvidia issues, as that seems to be where the issue is commonly coming from.

I have come across two that stand out the most.

1. Link Basically, it has to do with a secondary screen, and nvidia messing around with screen resolutions. Which sound reminiscent to some of the issues you guys were having with the screen resolution jumping, trying to find one that works.

Copy paste, of the initial post of the thread.



The disable secondary screen option is in the Nvidia Control panel, Manage 3D settings/Multi-Display.

This thread isn't very long, but it sounds reminiscent of issues being found here.

2. Link It's only a single post thread, however it has to do with Nvidia's Stereoscopic 3d driver. It reminded me of this thread, where a besieger was trying to use a 3rd party stereoscopic program, and the game didn't work with that program running.

Here's a quick step by step guide on turning off the 3d Driver:
    start button / all programs / nvidia corporation / 3d vision / disable 3d vision

    You can do it from the nvidia control panel by going down to

    Stereocsopic 3d
    - set up stereoscopic 3d

    then unchecking the 'enable stereoscopic 3d' box

Alternatively, you might have installed 3d Vision on accident.

And what about found about being able to turn it off/removing it.



If anyone is having this black screen issue, if they are able to test out these methods to see if that solves the issue, that would be greatly appreciated.

output_log.txt (8.64 KB)System Specs:

Operating System - Windows 7 Professional 64-bi
CPU - Core i7
Ram - Zeppelin 8 GB
Graphics Card - Nvidia GTX 470
Platform (Steam or Humble) - Steam

Direct X 11
All drivers update

i Try all step in instruction

When i start game - black screen -> BSOS -> reboot

Yes, i have this file! Config.txt (219 B)

I'm sorry but this might be quite a slow process. There are just so many different variables that could be contributing to these issues.

For example I had a support response from someone who was experiencing an immediate crash upon start up, it turns out that he had downloaded some fonts to use in photoshop and one of those was causing Unity to crash for some reason.

I will be going through this issue again tomorrow evening with one of the Devs, we had a new idea about diagnosing this.


EDIT: As soon as I have new information I will update this thread.

For me, the game works great on Windows, but I have this black screen issue on Lignux (the screen is black but I can hear the music).

My system specs:

Debian GNU/Linux
AMD Phenom II X4 965
8 GB Ram
ATI HD 5500
Humble

I also use the Radeon free driver. I've tried the Fglrx, but I don't even have direct rendering with it. Also, I don't have a config.txt file, although I've copied one, it didn't work.

I've tried all the solutions said on this thread and a few more: Changing my resolution and opening the game (I've tried it with all resolutions) and opening the game on a window created with Xephyr, which gave me also a black screen with music.

So this night I kept the game opened for a long time and, suddenly, it drew one frame. I waited for about two minutes, and it drew a new one. So being quite patient I was able to mess with the options (by the way, when I click on something, it doesn't work immediately, I have to keep clicking, waiting for it to read my input), and I tried to set it on windowed mode and later change the resolution. It didn't change anything, it keeps working so slow.

I don't know if it's the problem everyone is having or just me, but anyway I hope my experience can help someway.

The thing that fixed it for me was changing my desktop resolution to something else then changing it back, unplugging my second monitor then I was able to get past the black screen. 

Is there anything specific that you are doing when it crashes or is it just random?

This seems like a hardware or driver issue.