You click “Play” on Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction . The audio starts. You hear the iconic Ubisoft logo chime, or perhaps the metallic clanking of the main menu music. But your monitor remains a void of blackness. You can move your mouse, you can Alt+F4, but the game refuses to show you anything.
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Now gear up, agent. The black screen is gone. It’s time to interrogate some targets. You click “Play” on Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell:
Introduction: The Frustration of a Black Screen But your monitor remains a void of blackness
However, by forcing Windowed Mode, managing your refresh rate, and potentially using a D3D9 wrapper, you can absolutely get Sam Fisher sneaking (or brutally executing) through the Third Echelon HQ on your modern machine.
You are not alone. Since its release in 2010, Splinter Cell: Conviction has been plagued by a notorious "Black Screen on Launch" or "Black Screen after Cutscene" error. While the game is a masterpiece of stealth-action, it is notoriously finicky on modern hardware (Windows 10/11) and multi-monitor setups.