When loading a multiplayer race, the screen fades to black once the track is finished loading. This is normal.
Recently I’ve experienced an issue where the screen does not fade out of the black overlay, rendering me unable to see anything on screen. The audio still plays and responds to my inputs, I can hear the menu navigation sounds and the lobby “launch” sound when the race begins, so it isn’t a crash. I will also not enter the race, I’ve left it sitting there for a few minutes but can still hear the menu sounds.
This is normally accompanied by another issue where the menu is covered by a mess of cars that spawn in front of it.
It only occurs on occasion, but I’ve had cases where it’s happened numerous times in a row, which gets rather annoying.
Specs are as follows:
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i5 4690 @ 3.50GHz 43 °C
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H81M-DS2V (SOCKET 0) 48 °C
Graphics
Acer XB240H (1920x1080@144Hz)
Generic Non-PnP Monitor (1920x1080@60Hz)
Intel HD Graphics 4600 (Gigabyte)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti (Gigabyte) 58 °C
Storage
465GB Seagate ST3500312CS (SATA) 38 °C
931GB Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 (SATA) 41 °C
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp DVD-ROM SH-118BB
Audio
NVIDIA High Definition Audio