Upon startup all I get is a black screen.
I need to shut the game down through the task manager where it shows as ''not responding''.

I've already tried disabling the opening cinematic.

Any tips?

Did you set ST.exe to run as administrator? Does changing settings in dxcfg.exe (for example, windowed mode) help?

Same situation. Black screen + "Internal error" message. Windows 7.

I'm getting a blackscreen that I cannot progress past now as well (Windows 10). Up until yesterday the blackscreen played music and I could press escape to get past it, but now I need to crtl+alt+del and restart my computer

[edit] changing it to set by application, but keeping it as the same resolution as desktop allows the press escape four times to get it past the blackscreen to work

This could be highly related, but there is NO "ST.exe" in my install folder. I checked, uninstalled, redownloaded, installed again, and it's missing yet again.

I also get an error when attempting to change most settings on the properties of the GOG desktop shortcut for Submarine Titans and it literally tells me it can't do blah blah because it can't find "ST.exe".

Won't even let me click on the "General" tab on the left without giving that error.

So not exactly surprised the game isn't running here when the main game .exe is totally missing in the install. What kind of messed up install file is this?

Pic attached showing missing file:

Check your antivirus' quarantine.

No, it's not that. It's empty.

This would also mean this is the first game in over a hundred I've downloaded off GOG over years where my antivirus has cared or done anything to the download. But it didn't.

There's something actually wrong with the install file they uploaded.

Same error for me. Black screen. I hear a sound, but cant do anything.

Im SO SICK of "GOG" releasing not-working bullshit like this. Ever since Windows 10 released like half of my GOG-games stopped working.

GOG was once the shop that specialized in OLD GAMES MADE COMPATIBLE WITH MODERN COMPUTERS! Nowadays they dont care and just seem to release the games in their original state.

Then you go to the forum and people tell you "Uhm try to edit this config or delete this .dll blablaba" I BECAME A CUSTOMER OF "GOG" BECAUSE I NO LONGER WANTED TO FIDDLE WITH FILES WHEN PLAYING OLD GAMES. I feel like Im back to square one, gone are the days when every purchase on "Good Old Games" just worked. Instead its back to .ini file edits and patches and blabla

Thanks I got it to work!

I reinstalled the game first.
Then in the DXconfig menu I put it on Windowed, 1920x1080 and screen set to fit.

Naaah. I have 200 games on GOG because ~4 years ago every game on GOG I bought just worked. Then I switched from Win7 to Win10 .

There will always be OSes, drivers, and hardware/software combinations which will force you to use workarounds, especially as certain old games used long-obsolete libraries and checks that don't work well with today's systems.

You just got lucky with your previous Win7 rig. Back when I had Win7, I had to use workarounds for multiple games I played, for some even on WinXP which I dragged all the way to 2014. PCs always had DIY elements, and always will. Personally, I don't mind that if I can play the games I want at the end of the road.

No my cousin is having the same issue and he put in a support ticket regarding this, so it's not only me.

Hello.
I'm on a Windows 10 64-bit laptop with a dedicated graphics card (GTX 1050 Ti). I had an issue with the game not starting (black screen) only when the appearance was set to "fullscreen" (in dxcfg.exe). It was running normally in windowed mode. I managed to solve it by changing the settings in the Nvidia control panel so that the game is handled by the embedded GPU and not the GTX. Fullscreen mode works like a charm now. Give it a try if you have a similar issue.