[Nvidia determined] Black screen -> crash on very first start up of the game

Wicked Bug Reporting
1

I just bought the game and launched it for the first time but the game shows a black screen and crash after about 30 sec - 1 min with no error message.

I tried:

  • Verifying integrity of game files
  • Reinstalling
  • Restarting PC
  • Starting with -dx11 launch option
  • Disabling overlay
  • Closing a bunch of background application

No crash log was generated
(I checked both “%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Moon Studios\NoRestForTheWicked\backtrace\crashpad\reports” and “C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/Temp/Moon Studios/NoRestForTheWicked/Crashes”)
Here is the player.log and player-prev.log

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  • Were you able to reproduce the bug?
    • Yes, by launching the game.
  • Where did it occur?
    • The very first time I bought and launch the game.
  • Has it been reported before?
    • No, I have seen many crash report but can’t find any report of crash on the first launch.
2

is this by any chance happening after or at the moon logo in the intro screen?

4

Not at the logo screen. It’s just black screen, then crash. The sound wasn’t even there.

5

Hello.

This is an issue with the latest NVIDIA Driver 610.47 (Reddit - Please wait for verification).

This hotfix should fix it (Reddit - Please wait for verification).

Give it a try and let me know how it goes. And thanks for purchasing NRFTW! I hope you have a great time playing.

6

And well this also happens because you probably have Smooth Motion enabled on your global NVIDIA Driver settings. Disabling that on the NVIDIA App (Graphics > Global configuration > Smooth Motion) should also fix it.

Thanks.

7

I haven’t try disabling smooth motion but the hotfix works! Thanks for the support!

9

After updating my NVIDIA driver, No Rest for the Wicked crashes or shows a white screen on startup.

System information:

  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU

  • Driver: 32.0.16.1047

  • CPU: Intel i7-14650HX

  • RAM: 32 GB

  • Resolution: 2560x1440

  • Graphics API: Direct3D11

  • Game Build Id: 29466

  • Engine Version: Unity_6000.1.15f1_upd1017

What happens:
The game sometimes reaches Steam login / IntroSequence.WaitForIntroSequence, but often crashes shortly after initialization or stays on a white screen.

Crash stack repeatedly includes:
dxgi → CreateDXGIFactory2 → DXGIReportAdapterConfiguration → NvPresent64 → NVP_Init_Vulkan → UnityPlayer

I also noticed Steam/NVIDIA related modules in the process, including:
gameoverlayrenderer64.dll, NVUnityPlugin.DLL, NvPresent64.dll, and nvspcap64.dll.

I have uploaded the requested files here:

The folder includes:

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11

Thanks for the help. I tried disabling Discord/Steam/NVIDIA overlays and also switched to NVIDIA GPU only / dGPU mode, but the game still crashes or shows a white screen on startup.

The crash stack still includes dxgi → NvPresent64 → NVP_Init_Vulkan → UnityPlayer, so it still looks like a Unity/NVIDIA driver compatibility issue.

12

Hello. It’s a known issue.

Please, refer to this [Nvidia determined] Black screen -> crash on very first start up of the game - #5 by cascaseno

Thanks!