Black out when Initializing?' causing weird delays

Alatriste

Hi there!

Having a bit of a head-scratcher with the "Black out when Initializing?" option. I'm trying to use it to hide those awkward scene transitions from players, but something weird is happening.

When I turn this option on, the game takes forever actually to show up on screen. I can hear the music playing just fine, and by the time the visuals finally decide to appear, the dialogue text is already fully displayed. But if I turn the option off, everything pops up right away as expected.

I even tried using Camera->Fade In to force the game to come out from black, but no luck there either.
I'm probably missing something here.

AC V. 1.81.4
Unity: 2022.3.25f1

ChrisIceBox

If you have the Scene window open at the time, do things look correct before they appear in the Game window?

Alatriste

Thanks for the reply!

Yeah, it's super strange. Everything else in the game is totally fine - the subtitles UI, text, 3D environment, all of it loads properly. It's just that with this option enabled, I'm getting what feels like a 20-second black screen before anything actually shows up on screen.

I even tried modifying my OnStart ActionList to just wait 1 second, but I'm still getting that same long delay. The AC debug window isn't showing anything unusual either.

It's like enabling "Black out when Initializing?" is somehow adding this massive delay that has nothing to do with the actual loading time. Very puzzling!

It also happens when I load a different scene.

https://i.imgur.com/BeNV5Z1.jpeg

ChrisIceBox

I'm afraid I can't reproduce this on my end - can you test this in the latest release, using a backup/duplicate project?

Alatriste

I'll try, but it might take me a few days. I'll update the thread. Thanks!