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.
Community AdminHi all,
Some steps which may help resolve this issue:
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!
