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Black Screen for Desktop App

Black Screen for Desktop App

 

Plan

Premium

Country

Canada

Device

Desktop

Operating System

Windows 2016 Server

 

My Question or Issue

Every time I download spotify and then open it all i get is a black screen!

i've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and restarting my computer. 

it also has stoppedplaying in the web player but will still play on my phone. 

 

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Hey @KP1991, welcome to the Community.

Could you try disabling Hardware Acceleration?
You can do that from the … dots menu top left corner.

 

If that doesn't help could you try following the steps from this Spotify Answer?

 

Hope it helps 🙂

Stop hardware accelerator,

Press ctrl + 0,

Hope it will work...,

 

Cheers...

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