This post is kind of like my last troubleshooting attempt before I resort to buying and testing with different PC components. As someone who is new to PC gaming, I barely have any idea of what I'm doing here, so I won't be offended if you have to make a type of 'Hey idiot, have you tried pushing the power button?' type of response. If this seems to be the problem, please tell me. I just recently noticed that my GPU box says it needs a 600W PSU, whereas the one I'm using is 500W. My task manager lists Doom as 'not responding' and its power consumption is at 'very high'.Īfter all the testing I've done, the only thing I could think of being the problem that I haven't checked yet. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Doom in a few different places, no change I have to force restart for it to work again. My PC occasionally crashes on startup- the screen doesn't move, my mouse and keyboard give no response. I've tried a few commands under the 'set launch options' section under steam like r_rennderAPI 0 and few others. I've tried launching Doom on every pre-set graphics profile (standard, streaming, gaming) and it changes nothing. When Doom is running on my monitor, all resolution of everything seems to go down a notch, even though my monitor is 1440p. When the Doom window opens, my taskbar at the bottom changes sizes before the window covers it. As far as I'm aware, I can't run Doom from Vulkan at the moment, because the game won't launch. I believe Doom is currently running on DirectX. I need to open task manager to actually close the Doom tab Running on adrenalin 20.2.2 (most current version) Some things to note about my PC currently: I'm by no means savvy with PC/graphics settings, but my friends who I would consider to be knowledgeable have not been able to recommend a working solution. I've been trying to troubleshoot this issue for a while now, and not once has it worked correctly. According to Bethesda, the black screen issue is being caused due to your Anti-Virus quarantining the DOOM Eternal executable. I can hear the music when I boot it and even hear the menu and other sound effects - When I choose a level/difficulty from. Im guessing if I fix this problem on gzdoom, Brutal DOOM will work as well (in fact, it seems like it is working). When I run it from Steam or from the desktop shortcut, it opens up a black window, covering the screen. When I boot up Brutal DOOM it boots to a black screen - Ive noticed when I boot gzdoom it does the same. And this can usually be fixed by switching between the windowed and full-screen mode.

I've heard of other people dealing with issues relating to Doom, but none are the same as what I'm dealing with. A black screen is usually caused by some temporary graphics settings issue. Every other game on Steam works completely fine for me, however Doom simply doesn't launch correctly.

Doom black screen on startup