hellkat9940 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 (edited) Had my character go to sleep, and the screen never faded back in after it faded to black. I have a permanent black screen. I still move around, can open menus, fire my gun, etc, but my screen is stuck in a solid shade of black. I had this happen earlier when I was entering Vault 111, I think every time the game fades out it permanently goes black for some reason. The effect persists through saves, and a few seconds before loading it, it turned the 3D object on the loading screen solid black. Loading up a save with this effect makes the blackness permanent, even loading other saves, until I close out of Fallout 4. Any ideas on how to fix this? I don't want to go the entire game without sleeping, and I'm sure that I'll run into a fade to black effect somewhere along the line and be unable to progress. Edited July 7, 2016 by hellkat9940 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve40 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Loading up a save with this effect makes the blackness permanent, even loading other saves, until I close out of Fallout 3.This is the forum for Fallout 4 ;P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellkat9940 Posted July 7, 2016 Author Share Posted July 7, 2016 (edited) I meant Fallout 4, as can be seen by my mention of Vault 111. :tongue: Validating the files didn't fix it and turning off all the mods didn't fix it, so there's some replacement doohickey in a folder somewhere that's doing this strangeness. The black screen plague seems to be confined entirely to that particular character. Making a new character has removed the problem entirely. Edited July 7, 2016 by hellkat9940 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve40 Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 http://www.creationkit.com/fallout4/index.php?title=FadeOutGame_-_Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellkat9940 Posted July 8, 2016 Author Share Posted July 8, 2016 Yup, that looks like the function that was misbehaving. If it happens again what would I need to do in the console to correct it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellkat9940 Posted August 9, 2016 Author Share Posted August 9, 2016 ...and this has popped up once again. Does anybody know if there's a console command I can run to fix this? As I'm not sure what exactly is causing this, and I can't just keep making new characters every time I run into this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtreidesOne Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 Did you have any luck? I've just had the same thing happen on Xbox One. It's bizarre, since between the autosave that works and the manual save that doesn't, I didn't change anything. I moved a few lights in my settlement and placed a bed, and then woke up blind. My friend on PS4 (no mods of course) has had this issue happen to him, but it fixed itself when he moved to another cell and saved there. It's even worse since I'm on survival mode and so the working saves I have left are autosaves only. So any time I create a new save, one of the working ones disappears. So I only have a limited time to fix this before I've lost this Level 104 character for good. :( On Xbox one there appears to be no way to backup saves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellkat9940 Posted August 12, 2016 Author Share Posted August 12, 2016 (edited) Nope. No solution. And it's not just on sleep, either. I fast traveled out of Sanctuary and fast traveled back. Black screen. Used the COC console command to get back. Black screen. Went into the little basement bunker in Sanctuary, then came back out. Black screen. Loading an exterior cell, period, any way that is not from a save seems to trigger the bug. Are you using any mods? If you are, can you list them? As you probably have fewer than me. If we have any in common it might help to narrow this down. And I think what I did last time was revert to an older version of the game where I didn't have the issue. Edited August 12, 2016 by hellkat9940 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zimulation Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 (edited) I too am having this same bug, down to the variety of causes and it not being an issue with out characters. I'll come back here if I find a solution, but any help would be appreciated. edit: Figured it out. In console, enter set timescale to 6. The glitch happens when something has set your timescale to 0, and then you do something else that checks that timescale (such as sleeping or fast traveling.) For me, a quest mod had activated and I ignored it. You do have to go back to a save before the black screen started, I think. Maybe doing this and then COC'ing somewhere would fix it, but I'm not sure. Edited September 24, 2016 by zimulation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma1025 Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 If it's the timescale thing, I wrote a fix for it if you wanna give it a try. https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/3717695-sleepingtimescale-set-to-0-pitch-black-help-please/?p=33742910 If it's an imagespace effect getting stuck, I've got a batch file you can run that clear all vanilla IMODs http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/9852? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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