Black Screen... — Resident Evil 4 Empress Crackfix

If the crack is failing to initialize fullscreen exclusive mode, you get a black screen.

Yes, the CrackFix solves the black screen for roughly 95% of users. On my test rig (i7-12700K, RTX 3080, Win11 22H2), the black screen vanished. The game booted directly into the shader compilation screen. Resident Evil 4 EMPRESS CrackFIx black screen...

Performance after the fix:

The EMPRESS crack conflicts with the Steam overlay (even if you are running the game offline/no-steam). If the crack is failing to initialize fullscreen