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thunderdragon424
Seasoned Newcomer
2 months ago

Veilguard Crashing (Black screen) Cutscene

I have encountered a problem in the prologue of the game, where during the sequence to stop the Solas/Ancient Bridge Ritual, I am triggering a cutscene. However, instead of playing the cutscene, my screen goes black after the autosave. After a moment of black screen, I can hear ambient sound/music, but the game is effectively frozen and I have to stop the game in Steam.

I have updated my drivers, changed all my graphic settings to low, and have done the shader cache file workaround. This error has happened about seven times. The last time it happened, I got a DirectX error code message that I have not seen on the support boards yet (image attached). It is an "Invalid Call" error.

Based on the wording of the message, does it sound like the problem is a bug in the game? I was chatting with customer support and the guy on the other end of the chat said that this is an issue that other people have had, and that people are working on it. He also told me to post about this here so that the EA team and the community could see my report as well.

So that is what I am doing. Sounds like there might not be anything else I am able to do? If there are things I could try, do any of you have suggestions? I am not very tech savvy, so any and all help is appreciated!

  • No one else is experiencing this? I don't get a directx code error just the freeze and the black screen for the cutscene. If I reload the autosave which was created I can see the see the  cutscene but everyone is rendered horribly and afterwards the game goes into a completed bugged out arlathan map where if I try to enter the settings menu I freeze.

    Update: Don't now what worked in particular but I was able to get past this part. Things I did.

    Changed my graphics from low to the medium preset. 

    Disabled windowed optimizations for the game.  (System/Display/Graphics/App/Options then ticking dont use windowed optimizations)

    Disabled fulllscreen optimizations on exe (right click exe then go to Compability tab to find this option)

    Changed Scale from 125% to 100%. (Display settings)

    Something here allowed the scene to load properly and I am now roaming the light house.

     

     

    • thunderdragon424's avatar
      thunderdragon424
      Seasoned Newcomer

      I’m glad you were able to find a work around! I’ll have to try to see if that will work for my device or not.

    • asakti's avatar
      asakti
      Seasoned Novice

      Sadly none of these worked for me - but thanks for posting them. 

      Edit: if it helps anyone else I fixed my issues with a full uninstall and then reinstall.

  • I am experiencing this and just after the alliance meeting to go and stop final boss (after last Gambit). 

    I cannot finish this game because of this. Bioware you must do something! It's getting annoying!