Black blank screen on load - music in the background

[BRK]

I've followed the instructions in the 'Known Issues' thread as well as this one - https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/black-screen-with-music-on-launch.1591103/

Still nothing. Stellaris loads from the launcher, I see the fat cursor with music playing in the background, and nothing else. When I hit Escape, I hear menu effect sounds. Really frustrating, any suggestions? I have plain vanilla, no DLC and no mods.

 

[AndrewT]

Has it ever worked on this computer? Or never yet?

Right-click on stellaris.exe, properties, compatibility. Tick "disable fullscreen optimizations" untick every other box in that dialog, Apply, and exit.
Then in the launcher Game Settings menu, select the fullScreen display mode, Vsync off, refresh rate 60.


If that doesn't help:
DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log , exceptions.log

 

[BRK]

Right-click on stellaris.exe, properties, compatibility. Tick "disable fullscreen optimizations" untick every other box in that dialog, Apply, and exit.
Then in the launcher Game Settings menu, select the fullScreen display mode, Vsync off, refresh rate 60.

Oh my god, thanks a ton, Andrew - disabling fullscreen optimizations did the trick for me!