# Update broke game?

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-broke-game/41219>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [June 20, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-broke-game/41219 "2018-06-20T01:09:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![eowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@eowyn](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/eowyn)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-broke-game/41219/1 "2018-06-20T01:09:40Z")

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**Platform, device version and operating system**  
PC (Steam), Windows 7

**Screenshot or image**

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/4/f/4ff5587182af47ffdc43b7d3b43d67a081139349.jpg)

**What you were expecting to happen, and what actually happened**  
I tried to do literally anything, game acted like it was going to load and then gave me a single color screen (black when checking messages, more bluish for pvp or looking at my kingdoms, I even saw a sort of blurry red once).

**How often does this happen? When did it begin happening?**  
Began happening immediately after update (was working fine minutes before). Happens every single time I try to go beyond the kingdom map.

**Steps to make it happen again**  
Start game. See kingdom map. Click on something that would take me away from map (I.e. kingdom then explore, messages, guild, pvp). See blank screen.

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**Author:** ![Cyrup](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/cyrup/32/50181_2.png) [@Cyrup](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Cyrup)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 6:15am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-broke-game/41219/2 "2018-06-20T06:15:57Z")

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Hi Eowyn

I’ve updated this article for you with a Step 6

Please try Step 6, failing that, all other steps that are applicable to you in this article:

> **[Steam and PC performance issues](https://gemsofwar.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203517845)**
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> Follow the steps in this guide to help correct performance, crashing or hardware issues with Gems of War on the PC when playing the game through steam.
> Note: Please ensure Gems of War of war is clo...

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**Author:** ![eowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@eowyn](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/eowyn)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-broke-game/41219/3 "2018-06-20T22:24:20Z")

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I have it working now. Thank you very much! Don’t know why/how the update messed with things, but changing settings around has gotten me back to normal.

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**Author:** ![Cyrup](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/cyrup/32/50181_2.png) [@Cyrup](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Cyrup)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 5:54am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-broke-game/41219/4 "2018-06-21T05:54:09Z")

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Fantastic! 😍