Reproducible, frequent black screens | Blendo Games | Page 1

frank wyvern May 5, 2025, 7:09 PM

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The screen goes completely black whenever looking at the handle to exit the tutorial pod thing. Looking away makes it turn back. (In at least some cases, the targeting-cursor dot is still visible while everything else is black.)

Likewise, the screen blacks out when looking at the pipe you're supposed to crouch under during the tutorial. Probably in many other places too. I gave up here.

While in this blacked out state, all text renders as filled boxes, including the escape menu text (shown) and any dialogue that was playing at the time.

Running on a Windows 10 Home, Boot Camp, Radeon 48 Vega, latest drivers.

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Long time Blendo fan, since the Gravity Bone / Atom Zombie Smasher days. Hoping for the best. 🙂

vital heath May 5, 2025, 9:26 PM

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same thing here, read the steam forums and apparently it's an amd video card issue

hearty saddle May 5, 2025, 10:12 PM

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Hi - sorry for the inconvenience. Yes, as mentioned by others, we believe this is an AMD driver issue.

We currently have a fix that is being tested, and if all goes well, the fix should be available soon.

frank wyvern May 6, 2025, 3:51 AM

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Fantastic! Happy to hear it 🙂

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Thanks to both of you for the info!

hearty saddle May 7, 2025, 4:25 AM

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Hi all - we believe this issue is fixed in the 5/6/2025 Hotfix02 update

frank wyvern May 7, 2025, 4:20 PM

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I'm still seeing the same issue on the latest steam build, unfortunately.

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Are there any helpful experiments I could try?

hearty saddle May 7, 2025, 4:40 PM

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frank wyvern I'm still seeing the same issue on the latest steam build, unfortunately.

Sorry for the inconvenience -- can you please tell us the exact video card name displayed in your Video options menu?

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(Either a screenshot or text is fine)

frank wyvern May 7, 2025, 5:21 PM

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covert forge May 7, 2025, 7:42 PM

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Hmm, ok. I guess we need to add “Pro Vega” cards to the list of AMD cards which need the workaround. There’s a lot more AMD cards with the issue than we initially thought. Seems like anything 2019/earlier could have the issue. The newer ones don’t have the problem

frank wyvern May 7, 2025, 9:12 PM

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if only i'd bought a year later 🙂

hearty saddle Jul 20, 2025, 7:36 PM

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This should be fixed as of the latest update 👍

If not, the fix can be manually applied via:
https://blendogames.com/skindeep/support.htm#amd

frank wyvern Jul 25, 2025, 6:02 AM

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sorry i forgot to update the thread - this was fixed for me as of... early june, I think? been playing it on and off with my 4yo, who greatly enjoys telling me how to rescue the cats. 🙂

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thanks for the fix! and for making the game!

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