Micro-BIOS: Hi there.

I had an issue where the game started, but there was no main menu showing, just the face with the animation around it. After a bit of googling around, it seemed it was a fairly common problem, but there was no talk about it on GOG. It seems to happen if the current screen resolution is not one of the supported by the game.

I finally could fix it this way:

Open the file C:\Users\[your_name]\AppData\Local\HellbladeGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNotEditor\GameUserSettings.ini on the Notepad. If the game was never played, it should be empty (btw, the AppData folder is usually hidden).

Add to it the following lines:

[ScalabilityGroups]
sg.ViewDistanceQuality=0
sg.AntiAliasingQuality=0
sg.ShadowQuality=0
sg.PostProcessQuality=0
sg.TextureQuality=0
sg.EffectQuality=0
sg.FoilageQuality=0

Save and close the file. Launch the game, and the menu should appear now. Go to the graphics configuration screen and set the values to your desire.

Hope it helps someone.