Game is running, can hear audio but no display

Zer0mniac

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Asking for a friend.

All his games would show a startup screen and when it reaches the main menus, the game shows a black screen. The monitor and pc are perfectly fine and are powered. He never messed with any setting/file/wire/etc. and the problem randomly occurred just today as of this post.
he never had this problem before.

when he opens a game (like PUBG), it won't show the menu but he can open the steam overlay and he can alt-tab out of the game but the game won't display an image.

we tested fortnite and the same result occurs.

any suggestions on what he can do?

EDIT 8/1/2018 : games work in windowed but not fullscreen
 
Does the game display after unplugging and replugging the video cable to the GPU? Have you tried different hdmi/dvi/dp cables? Are gpu drivers up to date and have you tested with previous drivers? Have you tried windowed and borderless to see if it occurs also?
 

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GTX 1060 6GB. We already checked if he had the latest drivers, and to be sure we uninstalled and re-installed the latest ones.

 


What happens when you unplug and replug the video cable into the gpu when this occurs?
 

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I'll let my friend know to try this and I'll get back to you what happens
 

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The result stays the same
 

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Tried reinstalling DirectX. the result remains the same.