I see there are other posts about getting a black screen on loading of a saved game, but I feel this is a bit different.
On game launch, I get the Crate logo and then it fades to black. After a couple seconds I get the shovel mouse pointer and then hear what I assume is a wagon.
I have checked my drivers and they are up-to-date. I have checked integrity and I have even uninstalled completely and moved to a new drive with the same effect.
I was able to play for 9 hours yesterday, but am unable to even launch the game today.
I’m having this exact same issue also. The game was working fine for me yesterday, but today I’m getting the black screen with the mouse cursor and the wagon sounds.
So I just tried renaming the Farthest Frontier folder in My Games in My Docs and the game loaded. I did a little experimenting and by deleting all the saves but my latest it would also load.
I thought I had tried this, but it appears as if I still had a save file. After deleting all save files the game launched. Sadly I have to start over now.
I do, I as actuially able to move the save files out of the save folder, then once FF had launched I put them back in the save folder and was able to load them.