Thanks, everyone confirming that's it's working!
We did an update on our backend earlier in the week and should now be working for you!
Thanks again for your patience!
/Atic
What I did is:
1-Start EA desktop (with internet connection)
2-Then start from EA battlefield 1 and at the same time it is executed disconnect the ethernet cable (I have not tested if this works with Wifi)
3-Wait for the menu to load and then reconnect the network cable and update the game from the multiplayer tab.
The strange thing is that today when I started the game (this time normally without following the previous steps) the menu was displayed correctly.
Something that you should also check if you have a graphic controller like "GeforceExperience" check that it runs the game at the resolution of your monitor. In my case it was set to 1920x1080 but my monitor is 1360x768.
@IDrKarlI Understood - disconnecting *while BF1 is loading up* was the key detail.
Yes, it gives somewhat similar results as deleting the Twinkle folder except as you said: the icons and background *do* all work at first, but the icons will disappear while going through the menus (basically they initially load, but they won't reload afterwards). Also yes, entering and leaving any match reverts to black screen as predicted. I should note that even with this fix, the profile avatars on the friend list never loaded and still did not.
I do have Geforce Experience but it is - and was - correctly configured. I actually tried booting from Geforce before this discussion in case it somehow handed off to EA servers in a better fashion, but it appears to simply go through EA Desktop the same way as other methods.
The weird and sudden successes of my friends and the menu briefly fixing parts of itself for me a few days ago make me wonder if DICE / EA were attempting some sort of fix as nothing was updated or changed on my client or computer, but I haven't heard anything. No idea. @EA_Atic, do you know if anything was being attempted recently, or is the potential workaround still being hashed out?
@WarmasterNate 2 of my GamePass friends also do not have this issue. Their menus are displayed correctly. Just have formatted my whole PC again and updated all of the drivers. BF1 still exhibits black screen problem. Also there is no problem with BF4 GamePass version. Main menu is displayed correctly. Game is dandy. Only BF1 exhibits this.
This has been going on for 3 weeks. I don't understand what's keeping you so long mate. 3 weeks, can I get a refund for 3 weeks? I don't think so. @EA_Atic 3 weeks for a bugfix. 3 weeks.
DICE TeamYesterday playing the Game Pass / EA Desktop Beta version of Battlefield 1 the menus loaded up flawlessly. I didn't do anything except play some Battlefield 4 before that. It was just as in Origin Battlefield 1.
However today, it's back to black, sadly. It's more game breaking than it sounds. You can't see lots of things like quit, refresh server list... you have to KNOW where they are.
@EA_Atic Idk if someone has posted this yet. The issue seems to be connected to the game trying to open the Origin In-game overlay (see image). I don't have origin installed and play through gamepass.
I had the black background bug once a long time ago. It's a server side bug that EA needs to fix on their end. EA's servers are responsible for choosing the background image.
