Every time I start Two Worlds II Velvet Edition my monitor turns off (says no signal). I can hear the intro music playing, but my monitor turns off every time.

WTH? Anybody ever heard of this before? Starting a game and your monitor turns off? lol

The first time it happened I cussed and thought the HDMI USB wire must have come loose. I checked all wires, held down the power button until it turned off, restarted it... comes up fine and as soon as I start Two Worlds II the monitor turns off again. Unbelievable. How the heck can double clicking an icon on screen turn your monitor off?

maybe is the resolution

Maybe what is the resolution? If by in game resolution, well if that's the case I can't see in game to change it. If you mean my desktop resolution, I just tried changing that from 1080p to 1440p and then to a couple of others and the same thing happened.... as soon as I start the game, I hear the music and intro playing and my monitor turns off.

One thing I haven't tried is switching from my monitor to the laptop screen. Will try that now.

Sounds like an invalid resolution.

Well, so I switched from my monitor only to monitor and laptop both on at same time. Started game.... heard the music and intro turn on and the monitor turned off and screen on the laptop simply showed the desktop (albeit a clean desktop.... none of the icons show up. So I shut it all down again and then I set it up to go just to the laptop screen. This time the game came up, I went in settings and checked.... and it is set to run at 1920 x 1080... the same resolution I run everything at. Switched it back to go to my monitor.... and the same thing.... monitor turns off. I tried changing the refresh rate both lower and higher... same thing. Monitor turns off every time I start the game. I can't see very well... the whole purpose of this 34 inch monitor a foot from my face is so I can make out the letters and numbers on the screen. I can't play this (or any other game) on my laptop screen. Simply.. Can't. Be. Done.

Looks like I wasted my money with this purchase. Too bad I bought it years ago knowing at some point I would want to play it and am way past any eligible refund.

Unbelievable. A game that runs in 1920x1080 just like nearly every other game I play yet this one makes my monitor shut off. I swear to Christ that the one over riding and never changing reality that I have learned after all these decades on this rock is that shit only gets worse.... hardly ever better. And when things do get better... when we do take one step forward you can bet the farm that soon enough there will two or three or four steps backward.

ADDED: Just to clarify I am bed ridden, I haven't walked since August 2020. My laptop sits on a table in the corner with my monitor on one of those hospital bed trays that sits right in front of me. In order to see the screen to go into settings and check the resolution, I had to sit up on the side of the bed, reach for the table, pull it over right next to the bed and put my fact literally inches from the screen. Obviously I can't play the game like that. So no go on this monitor, no go on the game.

Can you provide system specs?

Well, I'm completely befuddled. I went ahead and moved the display back to monitor only, posted the above post and was going to uninstall the game and do a different one when my mother dropped in to visit. She's almost 87 years old and I'm bedridden and she's going along just fine. Anyway, so before I uninstall it I tell her what happened and decided I wanted to show her. "Hey mom watch, when I click this icon on my desktop it makes my monitor turn off."

And i double clicked and.... the game comes up just as normal as any other game would. Right there. No monitor turning off, just the game screen right where it's supposed to be.

I really don't get it. It's the same resolution on my desktop that it was before. It's the same in game resolution as it was before. Could simply switch from monitor to laptop screen and then back to monitor "fix" it?

Old games may have issues with two monitor setups, which yours is as well.

I guess you could change the system to use only your external monitor when running such problematic games. It is just a few mouse clicks in Windows. maybe there is even a keyboard shortcut.

Not quite your topic, but I had an PC that would sometimes power itself on.

When you're a young kid, you just watched a horror movie and went to bed and your PC suddenly turns itself on -- fun.

My PC was doing that initially when it was new. A quick look into the event log has revealed that it was happening because the PC was set to wake whenever it received network traffic. I was absolutely baffled by why does Windows 10 do that by default, but the problem went away after disabling it.

And as for the topic... Old games generally don't like multi-monitor setups so that is always the main suspect number 1.

Second is resolution. Some engines just refuse to cooperate when the resolution is above a certain value.

And lastly, some games also refuse to cooperate when you force an originally 4:3 game into a 16:9 aspect. But it usually results in graphical errors and not the monitor not showing anything.

Ditto.

If there's a external config program i'd run that and set the resolution/settings.

If not delete the config file and it should default to a low/basic/safe resolution.

If that fails, it might be possible to edit the config file manually. I had to do this once for Quadrilateral Cowboy where somehow the resolution was set to something like 2060x1600 and i couldn't get to the config file otherwise, but editing it to be 640x480 window let me adjust it after to an appropriate resolution.

It's not a very likely solution, but did you try out both exe files manually? (One is for DX9, the other one for DX10.)

If you can't enter the game, the only way to change graphic settings seems to be
via registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reality Pump\TwoWorlds2\Graphics