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chazbadtealeaf38
Newcomer
15 hours ago

Game Launching but Only to Black Screen After Latest Update

After the March 23rd 2026 update, my game will now launch (before the update, I got a failure to launch notification). It initially shows the loading screen but when it would normally go to the main ...
cc or mods removed
crashing
freezing
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Tangie0906
Seasoned Rookie
8 hours ago

I didn't experience the crashes but it's possible I didn't leave it on that screen long enough. I removed ALL my mods, deleted my mods folder so it would re-generate, and cleared my localthumbcache file. Then my game saves would load fine. Started putting files back in and ended up locating a script mod that I had updated already but it had been updated *again*. 

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