Crysis - Black screen when I start it up

Every time I go to play Crysis it goes to a black screen. The game is running and I get sound and everything, but the screen is black. I am running 8800 GTS SLI and I have force alternate frame rendering on. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

when i open crysis the menu comes up and when i start a game, i am greated by a black screen and the loading music

My pc is very capable of running crysis, iv completed it twice so its not hardware related...

In task manager it says it is working but no matter how long i leave it it dosent come on properly.

my drivers are up to date and iv tryed reinstalation to no luck

can anyone help?

windows 32bit q6600 @2.4ghz 3gb ram 8800gts 512mb 600w psu

Thats with all the latest drivers installedCheveros

Do you have the latest patch?

Seems like a few people have this problem.. checked out the official forums to see what others have said?

Do you have a CRT monitor?:P I know they are old, but I always had problems like that in my CRT monitor (it's caused by the refresh ratio).

The movies could be corrupted or you might not have the right codecs, try to rename the intro movies to anything else and restart the game.

If it still doesn't work check your installation of Crysis, and do a clean install of your drivers, etc.

I had the same problem and this is how I fixed it:

What it was in the end was the files that it kept after I had removed and reinstalled the game. In vista, you go to C:/users/*you username*/documents/mygames/crysis. Now delete the entire crysis folder and then launch the game and it worked for me.

I reformatted my computer and kept that crysis folder, because I wanted to keep my save games, but it also keeps data about your computer and shader information about the game itself. So once i deleted it, it made a new one and everything worked fine.

Try something like this in XP and see if it works, just find the saved data and delete it. hope this helps!

Every time I go to play Crysis it goes to a black screen. The game is running and I get sound and everything, but the screen is black. I am running 8800 GTS SLI and I have force alternate frame rendering on. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

daniel52587

Happened to me before, fixed after i reinstalled though. Also encountered a bug were none of the enemy AI were spawned with weapons.. To be honest crysis has to be one of the buggiest games ive ever played.

I have the same problem too with Crysis and Crysis Warhead. Game works perfect untill my monitor turns off and goes to stand by mode but I can't wake him up anymore so I have to restart the computer. I tried almost everything: I changed refresh rate of my monitor and it helpet a little (previously monitor turned off directly after the game loaded, with refresh rate changed it works from 30 seconds to 5 minutes, but no more than that). I reinstalled drivers for several times but nothing help, I deleted the folder in my documents and it didn't help.

I have ATI HD 4850 and all other new games work perfect.

Every time I go to play Crysis it goes to a black screen...I am running 8800 GTS SLI

daniel52587

disable SLI mode and try again.

if problem persists, pull one card out of the motherboard and try again.

I have the same problem too with Crysis and Crysis Warhead. Game works perfect untill my monitor turns off and goes to stand by mode but I can't wake him up anymore so I have to restart the computer. I tried almost everything: I changed refresh rate of my monitor and it helpet a little (previously monitor turned off directly after the game loaded, with refresh rate changed it works from 30 seconds to 5 minutes, but no more than that). I reinstalled drivers for several times but nothing help, I deleted the folder in my documents and it didn't help.

I have ATI HD 4850 and all other new games work perfect.

try turnign the fan up sounds like the card is over heating and shutting offf

markec123

Mine is ok but it randomly turns my monitor to standby mode and i cant turn it back on again but if i have my speakers on i can still hear the music, i run on a crappy Nvidia Geforce 7500 LE, any suggestions?

the way i fixed my problem (blank screen but can hear sound on my pc game) was to set my global setting in nvidia control panal to default....started right up perfect after that.

hope that helps....been searching for days

hey guys, i previously had an ancient 15" crt monitor and finished crysis on that one. i have a 9800GT and a samsung 19" lcd now. i installed crysis to play it again and now...whenever i go to the gps jamming station i start getting the black screen but can still see the hud and hear the sounds. pls help me with this fix...i wrote to EA but they don't reply. i have the latest drivers and downloaded the patch 1.2...i played it perfectly be4 but don't know what the problem is now...HELP!

It could be incompatibility with 64bits, you should try downloading patch 1.2 and 1.2.1.

I had this problem aswell. To solve it I downloaded the binx64 file which can be found by googleing it. Download that and you will be able to run it no problem. 

http://steamcommunity.com/app/17330/discussions/0/882966056834602600/

you shouldve maybe used google first?