Hello! I am a new user of Godot, but when I downloaded, extracted, and opened the file for it, it was completely black. Yes, I did try using this: Godot 4 black screen in editor cant access anything tried everything (PC)
It might’ve worked, however, when I opened Notepad to edit the file with that code, the text was both encoded and 132 million characters long. I did eventually get to the end, but when I pasted it at the end, nothing happened. I will try to save it, but it might not work. Please reply to this post for more details.
UPDATE: I did successfully save it, however, when I tried opening it, a message popped up saying “This app can’t run on your PC”. I will try downloading it again now, just in case. I will keep you guys updated!
You have corrupted the exe file. You will need to download a new copy as merely saving it in notepad can destroy the binary data inside. This quote was referring to a project file name project.godot of which I’m guessing you weren’t able to create a project, thus no project file.
Maybe your GPU does not support vulkan as Godot would like and following these directions would help but you need an earlier stage to be opengl compatible.
If you are familiar with the command prompt you can open your freshly downloaded .exe with the options --rendering-driver opengl3. If not, make a shortcut to the .exe nearby, then edit it’s properties and paste --rendering-driver opengl3 to the end of it’s “Target” field.
upgrading to the experimental 4.4 dev 3 should do the same rendering device fix automatically, so as a last resort maybe download that newest version.
The computer seems capable, maybe graphics drivers need to be updated? Not sure how to do that on a Intel integrated graphics card though. Do you get black screens on other published games? Godot or otherwise.
Yeah, I do, specifically in Blender. Technically its not a game, but… you know… it still does it. It did happen after I updated my graphics driver before it happened, but Blender also did update at the same time, so I doubt it is the real problem. Though it did happen to Godot too, obviously, so it still is a possibility.
I would strongly bet it’s a graphics driver problem, sorry I can’t say I’ve dealt with Intel integrated graphics personally in a long time. I’ve also not been on Windows in a long time.
Try updating the drivers again; You could make a bootable linux USB to safely try a different OS, that can confirm it’s not a hardware issue at least, but I wouldn’t know what to do from there (other than stick with linux lol)
Ironically, I use an AMD Adrenalin Edition graphics driver, though it works fine, somehow.
I just remembered why, the computer has an AMD Ryzen graphics card…
Ah, I was only seeing Intel editions for 15-ee. Still an integrated graphics card, none of the other 360x models have a dedicated graphics card; AMD nor Intel. Go team AMD though!
Still I am of little help sadly. Maybe your AMD adrenalin has more controls to flip through?
For trying a different OS:
If you have a unused USB thumbdrive to spend with at least 8GB of space you can try another OS. Download a debian live image (KDE is the most windows-like) and install it onto your USB with rufus. For this laptop it seems you must press the escape key to get it’s boot menu and select your formatted USB.
For now, I’ll just leave it, since it looks like there is nothing else to do. Thanks for the help though! I’ll try using an earlier version for now, if that works.
EDIT: it did not, in fact, work.
