Black Screen upon Startup

[6667eb8422819OverwatchPro]

After attempting to install various texture mods, The game (steam version) gives me a black screen, with no main menu or anything, upon starting up. The texture mods I installed all worked together fine, before the most recent patch, which fixed the game not launching at all. If anyone knows any way to fix this or get around it, it would be greatly appreciated.

[6667eb8422b84Olfred]

steam patched the game?

[6667eb8422da2OverwatchPro]

Well, yes and no, the steam version experienced various problems, so there was a "patch" that users had to manually install.

[6667eb8422f0fOlfred]

Try installing the SS2Tool.
If you already did that before the patch, do it again now.

[6667eb8423026OverwatchPro]

I tried installing the SS2Tool, but it wouldn't let me select the folder where the shock2 application was in. I did try verifying the steam cache files, and that was able to get me the developer intro animations upon startup, but still no main menu.

[6667eb8423103Olfred]

Did you install it in Program Files?

[6667eb84231eaOverwatchPro]

Well, I tried to, as the program files holds the steam file tree, containing shock2.exe.

[6667eb8423306Olfred]

With steam you have an option to install games into a seperate folder.
SS2 shouldn't be installed into the program files folder.
Check the Technical FAQ for further information.

[6667eb84234e5voodoo47]

incorrect install of mods, most probably. wipe out your install clean and start anew, see the steam FAQ.

[6667eb84235dbTricky]

Maybe SS2Tool needs to become available in Steam Workshop on the long run.

[6667eb8423aa9Marvin]

Maybe SS2Tool needs to become available in Steam Workshop on the long run.

Yeah, if you want to shoot yourself in the foot that is:
http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/workshoplegalagreement

[6667eb8423ba3Tricky]

That's.. evil. I had no idea.