Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I'm having some issues playing RPG Maker games

If this isn't the right place, please move it wherever it needs to be.

I got the RPG Maker humble bundle when it was going on, and just recently I decided to play some of the games that came with it. But I've been having some odd problems.

First, yesterday I tried playing Skyborn. When I first launched it, the game launched in Big Picture mode (I never use Big Picture), but the game wasn't visible. I closed out of Big Picture and the game was windowed and playable. So I played it for a bit.

Then today, I tried to start it up and it caused my monitor to lose signal from my computer. I got the "DVI No Signal" message. Then it came back on, but the game was minimized in the taskbar and wouldn't come up. I had no choice but to close it. So I tried again, and this time I got a black screen (but the no signal message didn't come up) and then I was back on my desktop and the game was stuck minimized again.

So I tried another RPG Maker game - To The Moon. This also had the black screen > minimized effect.

So then I restarted my computer.

Then Skyborn came up on the first try, but was fullscreen and I had to alt+enter to get it into a window. No big picture this time. I played for a little bit.

But now, a few hours later, I try and launch it and I'm back to getting the black screen > minimized effect.

I believe Skyborn uses RGSS2, but I don't know what To The Moon uses. Also none of my non-RPG Maker games have this problem and my own VX Ace-made game does not have this problem.

So what's the deal?

I would assume that their downloads had been damaged, try if the problem gets solved when deinstalling and reinstalling them.


I know I had no problems when I tested skyborn several weeks ago, and all other possible causes would also effect other programs, not only them.

I verified the game caches and they both came up with no problems.

I wonder if it could be your screen resolution? Black screen, flickering between image and no image, are problems I come across when my resolution is not something that can be easily used by a game, or if my graphics card can't handle the resolution.


I'd try


1 - seeing if you have the latest graphics drivers for your card installed


2 - try changing your resolution to other settings

1. Graphics drivers are definitely up to date.

2. B-But then everything would look bad :(