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Anonymous
13 years ago

Launches to BLACK SCREEN with cursor and music.

Got stuck in spectator mode on my city so I tried to restart. Since doing so I have been completely unable to launch the game. Clicking play on the launcher brings me to a blank black screen with the ...
Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
13 years ago
I have this but I press esc or tab out and in the window then click the mouse inside the game window and it loads
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Anonymous
13 years ago

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!

  • Merjin's avatar
    Merjin
    13 years ago

    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).

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      13 years ago

      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. 

      • EA_Nils's avatar
        EA_Nils
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        13 years ago

        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

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