Project Editor Black Screen

Godot Version

Version 4.6

Question

I would like to learn Godot, I just installed it for the first time and while the project selection works fine, the editor is just a black screen. It does work on Compatibility mode, but not Forward+ or Mobile, they have black screens. I have read on the forum that this is an drivers error, but had no luck fresh reinstalling them.

My Specs are:

Nvidia 4060 10GB (Laptop)

Intel Core i7 14700HX

RAM 16GB

Thank you

What OS are you using?

Also, you sure yout laptop GPU has 10 gigs of dedicated memory? According to Nvidia, that GPU is only available with 8 gigs.
On a laptop, you might have those dedicated 8 gigs but unless it’s a very expensive machine, It probably is 2 gigs of DDR VRAM and up to 8 gigs shared from your system RAM, which is how my AMD laptop GPU is setup. Makes a major difference in what you can do, as every bit of GPU RAM usage over 2 gigs eats into the system RAM, e.g 8 gigs on the GPU means you have 8 gigs left for OS and the rest of the game, which on Windows would see you probably stutter into virtual memory swapping hell.

That said, your problem smells like graphic driver issues on whatever OS you are using.
Cheers!

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Windows 11

Thank you for the detailed response. I have no idea how to resolve the graphics card issues if it is not a hardware issue.