Launches to BLACK SCREEN with cursor and music.

I have the same issue.

Your method actually worked for me. Tabbed out and then clicked back in - clicked the screen like mad and it popped up. Not ideal but I wanna play the game!

wait more then 2 seconds, it takes a minute or so to get to the menu, its not a bug. i think its connecting during that time (and probebly cant connect).

I had the same issue. Opened Origin ingame via Shift+F1 and that seemed to get it going. Could've been from tabbing in and out though. 

Hi all,

Some steps which may help resolve this issue:

• Turn off Video Overlays (such as Origin In-Game, Precision X, MSI Afterburner, Fraps)
• Turn off Bing Desktop, Spotify
• Turn off second monitor
• Turn off SLI
• Switch to Windowed Mode (Press Alt+Enter, or switch to OptionFullscreen 0 via Preferences.pnp in SimCity\SimCityUserData\Preferences)
• Reinstall GPU Drivers

Let me know how you get on and if any of the steps resolved this.

Thanks,

Nils

Your solution did not work for me, but this did.

It does have to do with the graphics settings. I bought a newer, better card and I got the black screen. Spent most of a day trying to fix it. Finally, I uninstalled the game. I scanned my computer for leftover traces of it in the registry. I mean I REALLY wanted it gone. I then found that the SimCity folder was still there in My Documents. I deleted that hoping it would delete my graphics profile. It did. When I reinstalled the game, it complained that my card was not good enough to run it. Still, the game worked. I set it to the max on everything, saved it, exited just to double-check, and started the game again. I works beautifully. 

So, in summary, dletewherever it is keeping a file telling it about your graphics card. 

I had to delete my SimCity folder in Documents.

Worked for me ta!