Skyrim Black Box Sound Fix
Nolan Guyz
As in the title, when I load a save game I want to play, I see the loading animation, and then just black screen, with music and the sound effects of the location where the save would have loaded, i.e. water etc
I have been told on discord that it cannot be the fault of any of these three mods, and my repeat of the process would suggest they are correct. However the fact is it is happening, so could maybe have been introduced at some point by some script trigger in game, but not discovered until the reload, I don't know. Anyway, this was the lead up to it, and I stand to lose about 6 hours worth of experience and quests if I cant get it back. So any help would be most useful, thank you very much. Is there such a thing as people taking a save file and diving in and seeing if there are any reasons for it, if so I'd be very interested in that! :facepalm:
* starting a new game: new game is loaded, but then it stops on a black screen with ambient sounds - only chance to get out is by shutting down the game via CTRL+LALT+DEL => user logout; TASK MANAGER doesn't work
I play the game with Alternate Start - Live a new life and all mods, that are required for Basic S.T.E.P. to run. As far as I know, anyway. Could be that during the long installation process, I missed out on one of them.
(what about returning to base game for a while and then switching back to STEP? Or would that ruin my character, if I did it that way? I'd have mods installed, but only those that do not conflict with S.T.E.P. to minimise the possibility of having to delete mods. At the moment, I really just want to play)
Ive had similar issues with updating LOOT or using it to manage multiple games. As long as you don't mind losing any LOOT settings (load plugin x after plugin y, etc.) you can try deleting your: users/*your name*/appdata/local/LOOT folder. Then run LOOT again (launched as an executable from MO), I'd be willing to bet your plugins appear properly.
hey . so I've been having this problem as well..
hear the sounds . but see nothing.
sooooo i was just random. while attempting to start a new game - while i was stuck in the black screen *withsounds* i opened my console and typed "showracemenu"
and it worked. it brought me to the start of where i needed to be - the Prison
i hope this works for you all that are suffering from the same problem
I am playing Dragonborn DLC. I am currently going through one of the black books quests and even though I am not fighting my health bar keeps going down. I can heal back up to full again but it keeps disappearing. If I do not heal I will die in about 30 seconds.
I have no disease or nothing is visible anyway, no clue as to what's wrong. I can leave the black book quest or fast travel to a different location or rest for 24 hours but still the health disappears.
I had the same problem! I went into the "Sallow Regent" black book (and another one immediately after) to reset skills and change the power for sallow reagent. Struggled with trying to fix it for about an hour because my last clean save was 13 levels before. BOTTOM LINE:
I vaguely recall this happening to me (it was during the first black book quest, I think). I had enough health that it didn't really affect me, although the sound made by the spell was a bit annoying.
This also happened to me. It seems to be a glitch related to one of the quests where, when visiting Apocrypha, you take damage whenever you stray off the lighted path. (Sorry, forget the Quest name, I played this a couple months ago). For some reason, the game doesn't recognize that you're no longer in Apocrypha and continues to drain your health, making that annoying crackling noise that sounds like a burning fire.
Turns out it was the PCI-e slot my GPU was plugged into. I swapped it from my top PCI-e Gen3 slot to my bottom PCI-e Gen2 slot and the issues are GONE. However, there is a small noticeable decline in performance due to it being a previous gen so this is not ideal.
I am having the same issue. After looking at posts with other people that have the same question, I am seeing them having the same difficulties as us. I don't think its a physical issue however, I am no expert.
@NinjaP15 Really appreciate all the detail and info man! Unfortunately I have already tried these steps to no avail, and the problem still persists. Yesterday night my computer had a COMPLETE crash where it would not boot up and the "VGA" light on my motherboard was on (indicating GPU problem).
I eventually managed to get it to boot randomly after repeatedly turning it on and off, and it seemed that taking out one of my RAM sticks and reinstalling it pretty consistently made it boot up again. I disabled XMP thinking that could be the issue, but I started having even more frequent crashes today. It might be some bad RAM I have, but nothing really guarantees that.
I have a different problem. My AMD 5450 just quit on me, black screen, and I had to pull the plug on my PC. I saw that I had an HDMI port on the motherboard, so I took out the graphics card and rebooted. Now, I can't uninstall the AMD drivers and I am constantly nagged to update them. I did try to put the card back in, but it is dead and I have no way to access the screen when it is black.
I did! In my other reply I marked as the answer, I put my GPU in the other PCIe slot and that TEMPORARILY fixed the issue as the problems started to come back after a few days, however this confirmed it was a PSU issue. After replacing my power supply it immediately fixed EVERYTHING. I haven't had a single issue since.
This post help me get to the bottom of it and centrally locate the issue (The PSU). I had a two prong PSU cord not fully in the GPU all the way. I was about to go out and buy a new PSU too. Make sure to check your power supply cord connections to the GPU. After I plugged the two prong in all the way, haven't had a issue yet.
I would try the solution you offered but i am no pc guy and I was just wandering if after uninstalling and installing the GPU more than 2 times would not resolve the problem? I mean the prong connection issue.
_Many_ times. As I have changed ssd/mobo/psu/ram etc, I always do a clean install after changing a main component. Believe me, I have tried SO many different things to make it work, that reinstalling Windows has happened dozens of times. Even different versions of windows, virtual machine, all that one can briefly imagine to test. The problem just persists.
The black screens turned into blue screens. I am going to reinstall windows from scratch. Starting with Linux and all the jazz. I will write more updates on Tuesday-Wednesday.
Thank you all for taking part in this horror journey!
If you've disabled your machine's main graphics chip, your screen will instantly go black. This situation occurs because the hardware sending visual data to your screen is inactive. Regardless, the problem is purely a software issue and is entirely reversible by merely resetting the CMOS that controls the BIOS
If the issue is similar to the problem that I discussed earlier in this thread, it has led me to test so many bios (UEFI) settings. Including power saving systems and other PCI-E-related settings. I am confident that with the skills I possess, this cannot be resolved through BIOS settings. If it can, then there is no such settings in my BIOS. And I had this problem even with two different motherboards.
No way! Having exact same problem. Random black screen (audio still plays), on reboot GPU is disabled in device manager. I've tried completely uninstalling drivers with DDU, booting into safemode to reinstall ect with no luck. Installing the drivers for a new monitor got me going for about 8 hours of uptime before the next black screen (previously they would happen 10-30 minutes into running a game).
I've had my computer untouched since about a year and yesturday it suddenly started doing the same exact thing. I'm not touching the hardware as I'm no expert, but it's just plain wierd as it suddenly just started giving me black screens (and the fans on the gpu turn off) out of the blue. I can be after an hour or after 10 minutes of using the pc.
Okay I reseated the GPU, unplugged and then replugged the power cables and so far have not had any futher issues! I would reccomend those experiencing similar issues do the same, it looks like it was a hardware problem after all.
The only solution that helped me was to switch off Freesync. I was able to reproduce the error very well. With every new game, the black screen with sound came back - until I deactivated AMD Freesync in the Adrenalin Driver (Home, Game, Game Settings, Freesync off). It is an annoying problem, as the setting s for Freesync can be found everywhere. Below Gaming -> Display, Global Performance Settings, in the game itself under Graphic Options .... and finally also on the display itself.
Well, I'm still facing the same issues more or less, it does still crash. A couple of years since I got the 5700 XT on release. What a frikkin **bleep**show this card's been. I remember way back in the early 2000, long before AMD bought ATI. I was already facing crashes all over the place, the old 9550 was a classic crashcard. I wouldn't buy any AMD products no more and wouldn't recommend anyone else doing so neither, trying to get support from these guys is futil as well.
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