Black Screen on loading world

Comments: 14

• 01 Jun, '22
  Craig

  I can see some stuff like the outline of the coffin and a half a loading circle and its saying Connection issues for me

• 02 Jun, '22
  Richard Mckenzie

  I have the same issue. Just a black screen with the ver. number in lower right. I have to use task manager to close the program and it shows my GPU at 100% and memory at 100%. I have an 8gig RX590 and 32gig 3200 RAM.

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  02 Jun, '22
  DireXDoom Merged

  when i try to load to my server after it finishes loading it goes black and i only see cursor nothing happen esc does nothing turned console command to disconnect/reconnect from server , changed graphics settings but that also did nothing. recreated 5 servers.

• 04 Jun, '22
  Edrom

  Same issue here. Log file is showing "No coffin, no custom spawn location and no nether spawn locations found for user #####,#? I don't know where to spawn!"

• 05 Jun, '22
  Steve

  I have the same issue. I am running my own server in solo mode. Black screen with mouse cursor and version on bottom right. Had to kill the process to get out of it. I have Win 11, Nvidia GeForce 1080, 16GB RAM.
  
  Drivers are all up to date.

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  05 Jun, '22
  Crowe Merged

  BRANCH: live
  
  REPORT:
  When did the issue start?
  Ever since the dedicated server app was released.
  
  Were you able to play the game before?
  No, not using the dedicated server.
  
  What happens? Please give as many details as possible.
  My game goes through the connection process, loading 10/10, I see a brief "click to continue" and then I just get a black screen with a fancy cursor and a build/version number in the lower right.
  
  Have you modified your game files or installed any mods?
  No.
  
  Can the devs reproduce the issue? How?
  I have no idea. Depends on their skills.
  
  Have you tried any solutions?
  -Verify files
  Yes. Uninstalled/reinstalled as well.
  -Please try restarting your PC
  I shut down my PC every night so it's getting frequent reboots. This has never worked.
  
  For server issues, is the server Official / Public non-official / Private?
  Private. I'm running the dedicated server from a second PC. Neither my wife's nor my main PC can connect.
  
  DISCORD ID:
  C

• 06 Jun, '22
  carolmFC Admin

  "Screen Goes Black after loading private server" (suggested by DireXDoom on 2022-06-02), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 06 Jun, '22
  carolmFC Admin

  "Joining dedicated server (local network) shows black screen with cursor icon" (suggested by Crowe on 2022-06-05), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 11 Jun, '22
  Gae-Bulga

  BRANCH: None
  
  REPORT:
  When did the issue start? Were you able to play the game before?
  Tried to play today for the first time.
  
  What happens?
  Created Character on lokal server, hosted/ joined my game. I briefly see a message "(Right?)click to continue" but the screen goes black and i only see my cursor, the version number (bottom right) and hear sound. Thats it.
  
  Have you modified your game files or installed any mods?
  No.
  
  Can the devs reproduce the issue? How?
  Unknown.
  
  Have you tried any solutions?
  - Verified game files
  - Restarted PC
  - Updated video drivers
  - Checked for Windows updates
  - Ran game as Administrator, disabled fullscreen optimization
  - Tried windowed fullscreen and exclusive fullscreen
  - Changed graphic settings High -> Low, 3440x1440 -> 1920x1080
  
  System:
  Win 10
  AMD 3700X
  32GB RAM
  RTX 2070

• 16 Jun, '22
  MadCat

  I have the same problem with the black screen and only have the build number at the bottom, I haven't been able to play the game yet through many updates, I'm trying to host a local server for PVE.
  
  So far what I've tried
  - Verified game files
  - Restarted PC
  - Updated video drivers
  - Checked for Windows updates
  - Tried windowed fullscreen and exclusive fullscreen
  - Changed graphic settings High -> Low
  
  I've also found out that Unity games need to know on what Monitor they are supposed to run on, otherwise they get an IndexOutOfBounds exception and the outcome is a black screen. I couldn't find logs about my problem but I thought I might be helpful to share this detail.
  
  System:
  Windows 10
  Intel i9-9900K
  Nvidia RTX 2080 TI
  32GB RAM
  
  I hope this gets solved soon.
  
  EDIT: I dug deeper and found some interesting logs:
  
  Forcing GfxDevice: Null
  GfxDevice: creating device client; threaded=0
  NullGfxDevice:
  Version: NULL 1.0 [1.0]
  Renderer: Null Device
  Vendor: Unity Technologies

• 09 Jul, '22
  J. Smith

  Fixed my black screen issues.- on login / connection to my dedicated server.
  When connecting to dedicated server it was showing click to continue/ create character sorta at same time... but would fade to black right away.
  then had to kill v rising process to end it.
  So.
  
  I had to clear out my progress... deleted save files.
  
  so when i connected again i had to create my player from scratch.. and all progress was lost.
  
  kind of a bummer... since i have like 50 + hours in game.
  
  o well.
  
  I will make regular backups from now on just in case.

• 16 Sep, '22
  Bestarossa

  Hi, I've found a potential workaround to this issue that preserves player progress:
  
  1. Create a new private server with a different name to the original
  2. Start the new server & progress to the point the character becomes controllable
  3. Exit & go to the 'Continue' screen from the main menu, you should now see listings for your old server & the new server
  4. Select your old server & click the 'Go to Directory' button, do the same thing for the new server so you have both saves open in file explorer & close the game
  5. Open the AutoSave_0 folder for the new server (or whatever the most recent AutoSave is if you have more than one)
  6. Open a recent AutoSave folder in your old server & use the files within to overwrite the data in the new servers folder (Note: the black screen error seems to corrupt the 'WorldData.save' file, so ensure that file is roughly the same size as the one its overwriting (~2049KB in my case), if it isn't check an earlier autosave)
  7. Load up the new server.

• 12 Mar
  Krab Merged

  Loading into any server results in a black screen, only the HUD is visible.
  A solution was found, that being changing the anti-aliasing mode, putting it here so if others have this same issue this might help.

• 13 Mar
  ImPopoto Admin

  "Black screen" (suggested by Krab on 2023-03-12), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.