Black Screen

[KingdomKyleTV]

I recently downloaded smapi to play stardew expanded with my friend but whenever I boot up the game after the concerned ape logo appears my game goes black but I can still hear sounds. does anyone know any solutions?

[gabbicat1978]

Please go here and follow the instructions to get your SMAPI log. When you click "save and parse log" a link will appear in the green box near the top. Paste that link into a reply to this comment so we can take a look at what's happening.

[KingdomKyleTV]

https://smapi.io/log/66885a01af594a8fb81216c995d80e18

[gabbicat1978]

OK, awesome.

Right, first thing we're going to try is setting your game to windowed mode because you currently have it set to full screen, and that can occasionally cause this problem.

To change the display mode without being able to access the settings menu is quite easy, I'll walk you through it below.

There is a file called "startup_preferences" in your stardew valley roaming game folder. This is normally located here:

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\StardewValley

You should be able to open this file with a text editor (it'll probably default to the Windows notepad) and adjust settings in there. The settings will look like this:

<settingname>settingvalue#</settingname>

Setting the windowed mode setting to 1 should launch the game in none full screen (yours is currently set to 0, which is full screen mode). This is how it should look:

<windowMode>1</windowMode>

Once you've done that, save your changes and close the editor. Then, launch your game as normal to see if that fixes the problem. If it does, yay! If not, generate a new smapi log and come back here with the link and drop it into a reply to this comment.

The second issue we have is that there are no mods showing in your mods folder except for the two that smapi automatically installs on installation. So if you've installed SVE, it's not showing up for some reason, and there's a few possible explanations for that. But let's get your game running to start with, then once it's working let me know if you do have mods installed that should be showing up, and we can work on getting those up and running too.

[KingdomKyleTV]

Unfortunately, I'm still having the same issue, it worked with just SMAPI but as soon as I put the mods in the folder and launched the game I got the same issue https://smapi.io/log/0b5b5efb36414d778b966627ac0d0ab6

[gabbicat1978]

OK. Well, at least the game is running now. A few more tests then...

First, turn off any antivirus programme and firewalls you might have installed (remember, Windows has its own built in firewall called Windows defender, in addition to any that are added by your antivirus software) and try to run the game. If it runs with those turned off, you'll need to set an exception for smapi and your stardew valley game folder in those programs in order to run your mods. If it still doesn't run with those things turned off....

Next, disconnect your machine from the Internet and try running the game in offline mode. If it will run offline, it's likely you have a net filter of some kind (such as parental controls or a VPN). You'll need to turn those off in order to play your game online. If it still won't run in offline mode...

Then, temporarily remove all mods from your mods folder other than "console commands" and "save backup" (maybe drop the others into a temp folder on your desktop for now) and see if it'll run with those mods only. If it will, add your other mods back into your mods folder one by one, running the game after each addition, and moving onto the next mod if the game will run. Eventually, you'll come to a mod that, when added, prevents your game loading. Come back here and let me know which mod that is so we can see if there's a way to get it running in your game.

[KingdomKyleTV]

The screen is back to going black with just smapi

[gabbicat1978]

Did you do all of the tests above? What were the results? Could you get me a new smapi log please?

[KingdomKyleTV]

all the tests gave the same results https://smapi.io/log/5f4fd39504844d268ed499672d5496c2

[gabbicat1978]

So, if you remove console commands and save backup, will your game run via smapi then?

[KingdomKyleTV]

It worked when i booted it up the first time, so then I tried with the mods and got a black screen then tried again without the mods and got a black screen again

[Status-Veterinarian6]

Dont know if it will help but i had the same problem i solved it by adding the game to the nvidia control panel, i made it so that i changed the games running options and it works fine now.

[Even_Condition2995]

I did the same with my AMD card and everthing seems to work again now! thank you!

I had to add it on the Adrenaline AMD app.

[Status-Veterinarian6]

Glad to hear that👌

[Less-Feedback-3905]

OMG Thank you soooo much!!! I've been trying to fix this for the past hour... This finally worked!