There were some new updates, so I went ahead and downloaded those, and restarted computer. Before I launched WFTO, I ran the game without launch options, and was met with a black screen after the splash screen for 15 minutes. Killed the game afterwards.

After that, I ran the game with the launch options “-force-d3d9”. The game proceeded as normal after the splash screen and I was able to get in game where I was actually playing, but digging behind the UI still persisted.

Then, I attempted to start the game with the launch options “-force-d3d11”, with the game going black screen after the splash screen. No response for 15 minutes, so I killed the game.

Oddly enough, every time I attempt to verify the game files, It will try to download a missing file, I believe, but it never does. When I go to verify the game files again, it will try to gather the missing files, again.

An extra note, updating the drives do weird things like stretched resolution or black screen upon starting computer. In that event, I had to start in safe mode and do a system restore. I hope I won’t have to do that, but I can try again if need be.

I realize I did not reply to this, but when I remove all launch options, I get black screen after the splash screen.

I have tried those steps prior to making my game work. Right now, I've had to set the launch options to -force-d3d9 to help a black screen problem. When I tried downloading the latest drivers my computer would do weird stuff like black screen, or strange resolution that are stretched.

I'm a buffoon. here is the out log.

output_log.txt

I thought my GPU was already updated to the latest driver, but I went ahead and went to the AMD website and messed my computer up by downloading the wrong driver. Then I tried it again and my computer black screened on me upon start up. So I had to go into safe mode and do a system restore. Attempted to update drives once more, got black screen upon boot up and had to system restore.

When I left clicked on my desktop to go to AMD Catalyst Control Center, I could not find  "Power" -> "Switchable Graphics".

I added "-force-d3d9" to the launch options to the game and it worked! Horray! Thank you so much! It said that was for advanced users only. Does…does this mean I’m an advanced user now?

Joking aside, you got it to work. Thank you.

Yes, I have service pack 1 installed. Here is a screen shot.

Yes, 100% certain. I only have optional updates left. I'm going to install the 22 optional Windows updates and see if that does anything.

Coincidentally that was the exact thread I was trying to work off from.

Yes, I had about 59 updates, got them all and restarted the computer. still black screen.

For some reason my system has not updated since last November. So I went ahead and updated the computer, restarted, and verified game files. Still black screen.

Went to download Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable Update 3 RC, but when I run it, it says I already have it installed. Which is odd, because I have every instance of Microsoft Visual C++ 2005-2017 installed, but not instances of 2015.

Uninstalled every instance of Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable.

Installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable from the War for the Overworld file ("_CommonRedist/vcredist/2015") Restarted computer.

Validated file integrity of WFTO. For some reason, one file keeps needing to be re-acquired. Launched game. Still black screen.

output_log.txt

Please help me.