Cities Skylines Black Screen Cursor Steam Overlay Trips Out

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Updated 3/12/2015

The Paradox Faq has been updated and includes a fix for the black start up screen issue and more.

Cities Skylines Poor FPS Performance Fix

If you are a laptop user and you are getting low frame rates and experiencing poor performance, you should make sure that your game is being run using the dedicated GPU instead of integrated GPU.

You can change settings using control panel of your GPU (Nvidia/AMD).

And if you are desktop user, you need to make sure that your GPU drivers are up to date. Some users have also reported that changing the compatibility mode for Cities Skylines fixes the issue.

Cities Skylines Green Screen and Other Graphical Issues

Multiple users have reported that they are experiencing green screen especially on MAC. If that's the case or you have similar graphics related anomalies, you can try out this fix.

Cities Skylines Black Screen Fix

Black Screen with music in background usually means that there is a resolution problem. In order to fix it, you need to use the following line in the command parameters space via Steam: -screen-height 400 -screen-width 800 Now the whole path will look something like this. C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\STEAM\STEAMAPPS\COMMON\Cities Skylines\Cities.exe" -screen-height 400 -screen-width 800 If that doesn't solve the problem, you should try fix #1. You can also try running the game in windowed mode.

Cities Skylines Unable to Start/Load City

There have been reports that some players aren't able to start or load a city. If that's the case, try running the game as admin. If you haven't progress far, you can try starting a new game.

Cities Skylines Missing Executable File Error

64-bit OS is the requirement to run the game and that's not a problem, you should try verifying your game files so that the missing file can be downloaded.

Cities Skylines Crashes with Unknown Error

The error most probably is due to unsupported OS. You need to have a 64-bit OS to run the game. If you don't, it's time to upgrade.

Cities Skylines Borderless Windowed Mode

If you want a borderless window, you need to set the following parameter in the launch options via Steam:

-popupwindow

Cities Skylines Game Crashes on MAC

If you are a MAC user and your game is crashing, you need to disable Steam Overlay.

Cities Skylines Game Does Not Start on MAC

There are a few things you can try. First, try disabling Steam Overlay. If that doesn't work, you should make sure that you are not using any screen capture applications.

Cities Skylines – New Game Button is Greyed Out

OSX: To fix the issue, you need to create a folder as /Users/user/.config/Colossal Order. If it doesn't work, you need to set .config file to read and write instead of just read.

For Windows: New game and load game being grayed out should happen only if gamesettings.cgs (this file is in C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Colossal Order\Cities_Skyline) is empty, and if the game isn't allowed to write there. So check if you have this folder (copypaste to address bar as AppData is a hidden folder): C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Colossal Order. See that they are not read-only.

Cities Skylines cities.exe stopped working

In Steam, go to the 'Library' tab. Right click on the game and select 'Properties' from the end of the drop down list. Click on 'Set Launch Options' and And the following into the box: -force-d3d9 and then click 'OK' This will mean that your video card will use DirectX9 rather than 11.

Update

/u/TotalyMoo has updated the Faq with known issues and solutions.

Cities Skylines Black Screen Cursor Steam Overlay Trips Out

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/2yqggj/potential_fixes_for_your_game_issues/

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