Windowed Mode - Black Screen Trouble

[pavioc16]

Hey guys. I have this weird problem that I don't have any evidence of any one else experiencing. I've searched all over various forums, but I can't see anyone even having the specific problem I have.

 

Here's the thing. When I run fullscreen mode, everything works fine. But I am a bit of a roleplayer, so I like writing diary entries for my characters. I got the Personal Notebook mod, but I didn't like alt+tabbing from fullscreen because it caused too many issues.

 

So I decided to try out windowed mode. And no matter what resolution I try, all I get when I turn on Skyrim is a blank, black screen. I can hear the intro music and everything. If I press enter twice (if I hadn't moved the mouse beforehand) it loads the game, and I can hear myself casting spells if I press the appropriate keys on my computer...

 

I'm running on Windows 7 with an AMD Radeon HD 6620G, Crossfire enabled. I have the steam version of Skyrim... here are things I've tried.

 

1. Skyrim running in compatibility mode for XP

2. SKSE running in compatibility mode.

3. Running everything as administrator.

3. Downloading Simple Borderless Window, which works completely fine, except windowed mode only shows black screen.

4. Running SWB as Administrator

5. Specifying everything specifically as trusted with my firewall

4. Disabling ENB (deleting .dll file and all files installed by the different profiles)

5. Using three different ENB profiles (Superb, Enhanced Shaders, Sharpshooters Extreme Graphics)

6. Editing the SkyrimPrefs.ini (which I backed up and returned to it's original form)

7. Restarting Computer

 

I'm somewhere between a noob and a not noob, so please try to be specific in any suggestions you have. This is mostly just an annoyance type problem... worse comes to worse, I'll just continue to run it in fullscreen mode.

 

Also, a weird thing I noticed... when Alt-Tabbing normally in Windows 7... it shows a see-through type thing when I switch windows... when I ALT-TAB from skyrim, it looks different... more basic.

[setsunae]

Hi there, I know this post is a bit old, but I have the exact same problem on Windows 10. Whenever I try to run Skyrim on windowed mode, all I get is a black screen, while I can still hear the music playing, my character moving, etc. Did you manage to find any solution yet?

[LatencyRemix]

Have you tried out this ?

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/36177/?

 

You could also try changing the resolution in the skyrim window to 800x600 or 1024x768 and have it run the window not in full screen to test things out

[diegozn]

I have fix the same problem by eddit the NVidia configs. My vsync mode was on FAST SYNC and i turn to Application Controled and solve the problem.