Resolution?: Brief black screen on startup/tab-in.

[PAPVAFS11]

I recently picked up a new monitor at 1920x1080. This is my first monitor in this range, and everything is working out so far. My one problem is with Fallout 4. It's not severe, but it's a little alarming.

 

Whenever I start Fallout 4 up, my monitor goes black for a short period as if it's changing resolution. This also happens when I tab back into the game. What's confusing is that it doesn't actually change the resolution; when I shut the game down, or tab out, there's no black screen. It switches to my desktop like any other fullscreen game. So far, Fallout 4 is the only game I've experienced this with, and only on my new monitor.

 

I've tried to fix it by clearing all of my settings, but it keeps coming back no matter what I change, wipe, or set to default. There's no trouble when the game is running in windowed mode, borderless or not, but I really don't like the performance hit associated with windowed mode. Fallout 4 is already a major hog for my rig, and I don't want to make it any worse.

 

This isn't the worst of issues. All it really costs me is a little bit of time and a little bit of momentary performance. But, as I said, it definitely doesn't look like intended behavior, and it's making me nervous that this is putting unnecessary stress on my monitor or my machine.

[HeyYou]

Are you running the game at your monitors native resolution? I don't think it will automagically figure it out, you'll have to tell it.

[PAPVAFS11]

Believe me, that was the first thing I checked. I've let the launcher set my resolution, triple-checked the INI files to make sure it was correct, and done everything I can think of. None of it's worked.

 

I can post my INI files, if that would help, but given that this kept happening even on launcher-generated INIs, I couldn't even imagine what's going wrong.

Edited March 19, 2020 by PAPVAFS11

[JimmyRJump]

I have that with every game. My monitor is a Samsung TV and it has the screen go black for a second or two at every startup of a game. During that time, the monitor shows its resolution setting top left corner as if I had changed screen size, which isn't so. The TV/monitor is always set at 1080p and so are my games. Just like with you, I don't have it when I quit the game. I can't alt/tab because I don't play windowed. In your case, check if the 'Windowed Mode' is ticked in the game's settings and untick it if so.

 

I'm used to it so it doesn't really bother me.