I'm experiencing this issue too. I've gone through some extensive diagnostic steps and workarounds to no avail, and have even installed the game on two different computers (
my desktop and laptop) with the same result: Game launches to indefinite black screen.
These three lines in my Player.log file could be a clue as to why the game menu never loads or outputs any sound:
Code:
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at GameManager.get_SpeechVolume () [0x00000] in <00000000000000000000000000000000>:0
at MainMenuManager.Start () [0x00000] in <00000000000000000000000000000000>:0
I've attached my full Player.log file, which is located in the directory: "
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Iron Wolf Studio\Destroyer The U-Boat Hunter"
For anyone that has a working game, I'd be interested to see what the Player.log file looks like and what appears after the
Daedalic.Dbtool.Client.BannerSystem:Start() line item, as that's where my game appears to be getting stuck.
I think it's either the
NullReference section that is causing the main menu and the game itself to fail to load, or the start of the
BannerSystem that's causing the hang up.
Here are the diagnostic steps I've taken so far:
- Installed latest Windows Updates
- Installed latest NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready drivers
- Fully uninstalled and reinstalled the game
- Installed the experimental-public build
- Ran game files integrity verification check
- Launched the game executable as Administrator
- Cleared the NVIDIA cache folder
- Changed the scaling option in NVIDIA Control Panel from "Aspect ratio" to "No scaling"
- Ran the game with various command-line flags through Steam, i.e. -windowed, -window-mode exclusive, -screen-fullscreen 0, -force-d3d9, -force-d3d12
System specs—
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X @ 3.60GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
RAM: 16 GB RAM
OS: Windows 10 Pro 21H2 (19044)