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addaxesol
Seasoned Novice
8 days ago
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Black screen and crashed Win 11 Home

Sure, got a cheap computer but everything else works just fine?! Specs: ASUS TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS WIFI II AMD Ryzen 5 5500 ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4060 EVO OC Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3200MHz 16GB ...
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    addaxesol
    7 days ago

    Now it's finally solved!

    Been playing for some hours tonight without any further problems. After a while I didn't even recall I played in windowed mode, especially since I enabled the "Automatically hide the taskbar" function in Windows.

    Since I didn't want to risk it again – having to repair Windows again, I gathered all information on tweaking the client settings file, playing windowed. Then I put it all together (and double checking it) assisted by ChatGPT, creating a .bat file to automatically create the path and set up the client settings file for me. 

    If someone else want to use it, or have a look out of curiosity, it's all here for view and/or download: (Google Drive). There's also a README to help you along using this fix, as well as if one would like to change the .bat file in some way.

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addaxesol
Seasoned Novice
8 days ago

Okay. Well, what really puzzles me, and is a real pain in the behind, is that Windows won't go back to normal after I quit the game (restart the computer). If only a reboot would get rid of the black screen I'd tweak and test much more freely. As it is now, I dread it ...

But I guess creating the client setting file is a good way to start. At least that would perhaps make me able to reach into the game and try tweaking the settings further from there. Though, I don't really know it's contents, part from those suggested to be turned from true to false.

If I could get hold of the rest, would that function to rip from any, or do I need specifications specific for my hardware setup?

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addaxesol
Seasoned Novice
8 days ago

I found this I think I'd might try to use this for a first try on a manually created client settings file ...?

[Renderer]
AllowD3D9=True
AllowD3D11=False
FullScreen=false
WindowX=100
WindowY=100
Height=768
Width=1024
NativeHeight=1080
NativeWidth=1920
RefreshRate=60
VerticalSyncState=false

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