Steam causing black screen on login? Potential fix until SE patches it

Lot of people are having login issues (myself included) and saw this on the Tech Support forum.

Wanting to post it here so people can get a temporary resolution

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Originally Posted by purplebun

A temporary fix for the issue until SE fix the Steam Overlay integration that is causing this

1. Launch the game through Steam
2. Log-in with your account details, but DO NOT press the Play button
3. While the launcher is on the screen where you can see the Play button, launch the Task Manager, and end the Steam process
4. After Steam has been forcibly closed, press Play
5. The game should work as normal

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Doesn't help launcher players (like myself) who can't log in. Anyone have a solution for us outside of spending hours redownloading the game?

Shut down all, full system shutdown, wait one full minute, restart.

Check your drivers, check your graphics settings.

Short of a full reinstall, I have found that a full cold restart sometimes works. It may not be the solution, but Id do this first as a precursor to other steps.

DO NOT worry about your net connection, this "might" be a system issue.

If you have gshade it could be that causing it.

The auto-update checker on it seems to be a bit weirder from what I've gathered and windows has been playing funny with it. It will resume normally after a minute.