# Opening the "blank" game template results in a black screen

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/opening-the-blank-game-template-results-in-a-black-screen/590992>\
**Category:** Rendering\
**Tags:** unreal-engine, UE5-0, lighting-problem, question\
**Created:** [June 26, 2022, 7:08pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/opening-the-blank-game-template-results-in-a-black-screen/590992 "2022-06-26T19:08:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![rootVIII](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@rootVIII](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/rootVIII)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 1:11am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/opening-the-blank-game-template-results-in-a-black-screen/590992/3 "2022-06-27T01:11:16Z")

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Thank you Millipede Man for taking the time to answer. I followed your suggested advice, but there were no levels available. Your advice did lead me to this post here [Missing level map - #4 by drummerof13](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/missing-level-map/330188/4) The odd thing is that I was about to start trying some of the suggestions from there but then it magically worked. I didn’t do a thing except for accidentally trying to open the project as a Blueprint project (I wanted c++). Now it opens with all of the assets that were previously not visible in the Project Settings browser.

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