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fuzzy-lavender
Random black screens when playing
Hello, I am currently facing an issue where at random moments during gameplay, my screen just goes completely black for a second or two before continuing on, it seems like while its black that my game freezes.
This issue only has shown up in tmodloader and I have searched everywhere for a fix but cannot for the life of me see any, it 100% is not a specs problem as I have a:
i7-12700K
RTX 3080ti
32GB RAM
Please can someone point me in the right direction as I seriously don't know what to do and its causing serious frustration.
12 Replies
fuzzy-lavenderOP•2y ago
My currently enabled mods:
fuzzy-lavenderOP•2y ago
I would also like to point out that I had the cmd prompt open on my other monitor during this to see if anything popped up when this problem occured but nothing did
you can post client.log from a game session where the issue happened
fuzzy-lavenderOP•2y ago
Here's the client.log file
hm, not really sure what is going on. I'm seeing some errors from calamity about an error when editing calamity related ui elements. I don't know what those are, but you might be accidentally clicking on them?
There is a lot of messages about the game resizing the window, but I assume that is you going in and out of fullscreen mode
fuzzy-lavenderOP•2y ago
I dont believe so, iv had this problem occur even when I was standing still
yea, was trying to see if changing the window would fix it
The last time it happened I was mining stone underground near a boulder and it killed me because of it
but the frequency of when it appears is pretty random but frequently enough to be really annoying to deal with
hm, yeah, this is new to me. Haven't seen this sort of error behavior before unfortunately
fuzzy-lavenderOP•2y ago
Ye I thought so, its hard to even find people having this issue when googling about it, iv only seen 1 post on reddit talking about this same issue from a while ago
ill give DDU a run and see if its something with a graphics driver, not entirely sure it will fix it but its worth a shot
yeah, in the FAQ are instructions for running in Vulkan or opengl, might change something if you want to try
fuzzy-lavenderOP•2y ago
Do you know what section they are under?
wait nvm i found it
just ran it for around 10 mins after the DDU and it was okay, will be able to fully verify if that fixed the problem tomorrow in case any similar issues show up in the future
So I think I have fixed the problem, turns out it wasnt even game related but it was caused by a setting on my monitor, it was a "smart HDR" setting, even tho I had HDR off it was set to desktop and that was causing my whole monitor to randomly black out, didnt happen in any game until tmodloader so took me a while to figure it out but its fixed now
interesting, thanks for letting me know, should be useful in case this comes up again