For some unknown reason, to me that is, every time I start the game now the screen stays black but everything is running in the background. What's up with that. And, that is all the details that I have.

| Dell XPS 8700 | Intel i5-4440 3.10GHz | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 | 8GB DC / DDR3 1600Mhz | Windows 7 64Bit Home Edition |

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Did you have the game working to begin with and it just started doing this?

For me, the game worked fine for the first few days until I decided to install some Windows security updates.

After that I would just get a black screen and would have to kill it from task manager.

I did a system restore and the game's working again.

Did you recently update Windows?

I wasn't able to test to see which specific update caused the problem. System restore screws up often on my system so I didn't want to risk doing it multiple times to figure it out.

Yes, I did

Just in case you're more ambitious than me and want to figure out what specific update causes the problem, here are the ones that I installed.

KB3100773 - Internet Explorer update, unlikely to be the one

KB3097989
KB3097996 - These three are updates to the .Net Framework don't know if this could cause a problem with steam maybe?
KB3098781

KB3042058 - Has to do with encryption so I wouldn't think it's this
KB3080446 - Update for Windows Shell
KB3081320 - Something to do with address spoofing?
KB3092601 - Update for Windows Winsock
KB3093513 - Windows Shell update, has to do with a remote code execution vulnerability
KB3097877 - another remote code vulnerability
KB3097966 - Has to do with digital certificates and spoofing, probably not the one
KB3100213 - Windows Journal and remote code execution vulnerability
KB3101246 - Something to do with bit locker
KB3101722 - Update for NDIS? Don't know what that is
KB3101746 - Another generic remote code execution one

i encountered same problem, for me it was beacuse i had a steam download in progress, don't know why but if i was downloading something from steam when launching the game the screen stayed black... lol

I decided to try to figure it out myself.

I installed all of the security updates one at a time and found the one causing the issue.

It's KB3092601

I don't know who to take this information to. Bethesda support, or microsoft to see what the issue is and find a solution.

I don't know if that's the problem with you or others, but that's the update that messed things up for me.

I pretty much have to control>ALT>Delete and do a restart to fix the damn issue.