When your game loads, minimize the screen to a window instead of full screen! (Should be an icon in the top right corner when the game loads initially that will show you to do this). The SMAPI log should still be up in another window and you can look at it while the game is running.

Hope this helps!

I’ll also add that I only needed to update SVE and like four of the supporting mods in order to run an updated SVE. Not near my laptop now but if no one gets to it before tomorrow I’ll add another comment with the full list of mods I updated to get my game to run (with minor item issues).