Help! Black screen at start-up

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Yes I just made a post about it not updating. Well it turns out it just took forever. Anyways after I installed the update now the game goes to a black screen. It was already doing it before the update but at least then it would minidump when i closed it. Now it does absolutely nothing. My computer even goes quiet after I click play like its not even trying to load anything. I know my computer is good enough for the graphics since I was playing it a year ago just fine, but then it randomly started minidumping so I stopped. Is there any way to stop the cinematics in the beginning or turn the graphics down w/o starting the game? Maybe that might help. Thanks.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

[username]\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting\user.setting

Video options are near the top, search for showintromovies for those.

 

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Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

it might also be your firewall blocking sins from accessing the internet, in the same settings file set it to windowed mode, then you can see any popups from the firewall(if it doing so)

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks guys. Hopefully this works.