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When I got to KSP today, I double-clicked on it, and it launched... and didn't show up on my screen. The icon appeared on the taskbar, and the music kicked in after a minute, signalling that it had finished loading... but it was not showing up on screen. I restarted my PC a few times, I re-launched KSP a few times, I tried clicking on the taskbar icon and moving it, I un-installed and then re-installed KSP, I updated my driver, I tried opening it again, I tried everything I could think of.

When I launch the game, the window does not show up, but it does load and then play the main menu music. It's there on my taskbar. It acts like it's there on my screen, as when I right click it and select "move," my cursor appears in the middle of the screen, like the game is there, but is just invisible. I checked the log, to no avail. KSP is acting normally. It's just not showing up on-screen.

I highly doubt mods have anything to do with this, as my game launched fine yesterday, and I haven't installed any new mods since then.

Has anyone else experienced anything else like this? If so, did you find a solution?

EDIT:

I reaslied that, even though the window didn't follow my cursor when I right-clicked the icon in the taskbar and selected "move," pressing the left arrow key made the window snap back into view again.

Problem solved? Not really...

Now, my KSP window is black. Not that my entire screen is black... just the interior of the game window. The tab at the top is still there, but the rest of the game window is black. The game does load, and the music starts playing, and when I clicked at parts of the screen where buttons would normally be, they did stuff. But the window was black.

Also, it still launches off-screen.

EDIT 2:

In case it's of any value, the steam icon that pops up in the bottom-right corner of the game window whenever you start a Steam game does still appear. It seems as though the black screen + spawning off-screen is happening only to the game itself, and not any additions like that steam popup.

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Hmm. I am telling this a lot to a lot of people, but im ussualy not helpful that much. However, this time I might be. Let me ask you a question, how many screens do you use? Beacuse, on my computer, sometimes some programs do the exact same thing, and then when I switch my TV (second screen) to AV I can see the window. Now, to my understanding, it should be impossible for ANY game to load on a different screen, except if somehow your PC decided that it just won't start the window on the main screen.

I highly doubt this is your issuse, but you can at least try to completely disconnect your other screens, it might do the trick.

If this didn't help, then, at least I tried.

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Note: I reaslied that, even though the window didn't follow my cursor when I right-clicked the icon in the taskbar and selected "move," pressing the left arrow key made the window snap back into view again.

Problem solved? Not really...

Now, my KSP window is black. Not that my entire screen is black... just the interior of the game window. The tab at the top is still there, but the rest of the game window is black. The game does load, and the music starts playing, and when I clicked at parts of the screen where buttons would normally be, they did stuff. But the window was black.

Also, it still launches off-screen.

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14 hours ago, CastleKSide said:

 wish I could help more, but you have already tried everything I would suggest,, reinstalling restarting etc.

Possibly reinstall steam? Or move the game folder out from steam and start it separately? 

Did that already... :( *sigh*

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Nevermind guys, I managed to fix it by turning down my PC's screen resolution, loading KSP (Successfully!) and setting the KSP settings back to my original PC screen resolution (1650 x 1050, IIRC), the bumping my screen's resolution back up to 1650 x 1050!

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