Black Background Screen Issue on Revit Startup

[sophijosephine2]

Hi everyone,

Plain Black Background screen issue on Revit startup. When I launched it this morning, the screen just stayed black, and Revit was stuck on the plain screen for at least a minute without doing anything. I tried force closing and relaunching a few times, but the same issue happened with both 2021 and 2022 versions. I eventually had to reboot the machine to get it working.

This has happened a few times over the years though not very often, maybe once or twice a year. Any ideas on what might be causing the black background screen on startup or how to prevent this?

[jay_colcombe]

I have seen the following suggestion a few time with solved responses with similar black screen issues.

Try the following

1. Close Revit
2. go to the following folder C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Revit 20XX\AddIns\SteelConnections (Replace 20XX with the version u r using example 2022 , 2023....)
3. Look for the following file Autodesk.SteelConnectionsUI.addin 
4. rename it to Autodesk.SteelConnectionsUI.addin.OLD 

Restart Revit