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Ibtissims's avatar
6 years ago

Sims 4 : Black Screen at startup but still music and the mouse

Hi,

I decided to ask for help here because I feel like I'm the only one with this problem.

This is the first tim I start the game and I just see a black screen but I ear the music and the mouse change too, just like the game is working.

I tried to change the resolution on the options, I tried to update the graphics card but still the same

Please help me (I bought the game yesterday)

14 Replies

  • kreatora's avatar
    kreatora
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago
    @Ibtissims

    Theoretically, you have two graphics card Intel (R) HD Graphics and AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000, but it looks like your computer uses only an Intel card.
    In your game folder, there is a text document called Config. It says which card your game uses. Could you post it here?
    The Intel(R) graphics controllers do no use dedicated memory on their own, they use shared memory that is taken from the RAM memory installed on your computer and you definitely have too little RAM memory for the game and for the card.
    But even if this memory was supposed to be just for the game, you don't have enough of it. Fortunately, RAM cubes are not expensive and are likely to be added to your computer. You currently have less than 4 GB RAM memory - you need twice as much.
    It is quite a different thing that the drivers for both your cards are very old. You need to download and install drivers for the Intel card
    https://downloadcenter.intel.com/
    and for Radeon card
    https://www.amd.com/en/support
    There are also problems with your Windows system but today it is enough if you check if your Windows is up to date and install new card drivers. We'll see if it helps.
    https://support.microsoft.com/help/4027667/windows-10-update
  • I don't understand I checked the graphics cards and they are all up to date, what I forgot to specify is that I played a long time at the sims on the same computer then I lost the game so I bought a new one and now it doesn't work anymore
  • I found this in the game's file (the file is unsupported so I took a screenshot)

  • kreatora's avatar
    kreatora
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @Ibtissims

    At the moment, only one - your Intel card - your computer uses. And it is a weak card.  If you ever had a Radeon card then it stopped working. Your computer should have 6GB RAM instead of 4 GB and AMD Athlon processor with Radeon Mobility 5600 graphics. But it hasn't. Did you give it in for repair? If not - you should give it to be repaired in the service.

    These are data from your computer
    Intel Driver Date/Size: 26/11/2012
    So you can see that these drivers are not the latest.

    For now:

    Try launch the game in windowed mode, if you will able to open the game lower the graphics settings in the game option