Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is a really cool new game from Ubisoft and we’ve seen that already in our previous walkthrough of the game, but unfortunately not everybody can experience the game entirely: some players encounter problems like black screen or stuttering, which can get quite annoying. In this article, I am going to share with you a few possible solution for your Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands problems.

First of all, before attempting anything, make sure that all your drivers (and most important the graphic card drivers) are up to date and also that your computer meets the minimum system requirements for Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. If everything is OK but you still have problems, it’s time to start fixing!

How to fix Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands black screen?

Open regedit, search for “AlternateVerticalSyncThreshold”. Unless you have multiple Ubi games installed, it should immediately give you PoP’s registry key. It should look something like Software->Ubisoft->Prince of Persia – The Forgotten Sands->1.000000000->Engine

Right-click the folder called 1.000000000 and rename it to 1.0.

How to fix Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands stuttering or performance issues?

First of all, try toning the game a bit lower: it won’t look that good, but at least you’ll be able to play it.

Alternately, for those with multi core processors, change processor affinity to one or zero – this should do the trick for you!

Did these solutions help you fix your PoP: The Forgotten Sands problems?

78 COMMENTS

  1. TO FIX THE BLACK SCREEN !!!!!!!

    -right click “Prince of persia.exe”
    -properties
    -compability

    choose windows98 – ME mode and run in 640×480 mode.

    it worked fine for me.

    But i didnt like this prince… It’s not like the old ones. Like im playing “Super Sonic” or “Mario3D”

    • That was awsum black screen FIXED!! But my game now stucks at the loading screen. that blue loading screen with a cresent moon. It jus keep loading and never loads. Any help in this??

  2. thx 4 yigit’s solution it works with me but there are some places does’nt appear it leads me to fall down and die shall this one have a solution ??? please ansewr ,,,,

  3. in the stage bath after hanging in the golden bar the door is not opening……how i can get through the door…..guyz plz help…..

  4. Same problem as Taha it hangs in the loading screen. it shows that the game is loading but game never begins.Any help……..

    • this was the same problem of which i came through…But no need to worry..
      First of all check any errors on Ur local disk i.e., on Ur C drive…
      >run>cmd>chkdsk..
      reboot ur system ans its over

  5. Hey,the folder name was already 1.0 and when i changed the affinity, the game dosent loads up. But i know something which fixed one of my prob,i.e lagging of the game.u can turn on triple buffering in the graphics card control panel.

  6. How to fix Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands black screen?
    when i click on the game a black screen comes and goes , the game dose not start.

  7. I have the same problem. When I click on “Prince of Persia.exe” the file opens and a black screen appears, the game does not start. Please help me.

  8. I got a problem during opening a gate in the prison area, the gate won’t open even if I stepped on it. The game stacked-up there. Anyone knew a solution to this problem?

  9. The black screen prob can be fixed through the compatibility option as told above & the loading screen prob was fixed when I re-installed the game. (try minimizing & maximizing too[for both the problems])

  10. Hello There Friends I have the solution for the blackscreen Bug when you start your game and the annoying blackscreen appears press the *enter* key you will see a glowing cursor and after 5 or 8 seconds the game will start hope the trick worked for you cause it worked for me

  11. guys with black screen problem 2 solution

    1)when the black screen comes press Ctrl+ALT+Delete than the game will minimize run it by clicking it and after 10-20 second black screen will go

    2)those of u who already have 1.0 in regedit set the number to 1.000000000 it will go

    Can u help me my game does not load and my requirement are above minimum PLZ HELP

  12. i am using windows 7..
    after clicking the shortcut on desktop,it is displaing a black screen and immidiately displaying prince of persia.exe stopped working
    wat should i do??

  13. IT IS DISPLAYING PROBLEM DETAILS AS FOLLOWS:

    Problem signature:
    Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
    Application Name: Prince of Persia.exe
    Application Version: 1.0.0.0
    Application Timestamp: 4bef2f23
    Fault Module Name: Prince of Persia.exe
    Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.0
    Fault Module Timestamp: 4bef2f23
    Exception Code: c0000005
    Exception Offset: 00a304b8
    OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
    Locale ID: 16393
    Additional Information 1: 0a9e
    Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
    Additional Information 3: 0a9e
    Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

  14. the programme is starting and a blinking cursor is apperaing…nothing is happening next…it keeps on blinking thats it..game is not starting…any 1 plz help

  15. its displaying the problem details as follows:

    Problem signature:
    Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
    Application Name: Prince of Persia.exe
    Application Version: 1.0.0.0
    Application Timestamp: 4bef2f23
    Fault Module Name: Prince of Persia.exe
    Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.0
    Fault Module Timestamp: 4bef2f23
    Exception Code: c0000005
    Exception Offset: 00a304b8
    OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
    Locale ID: 16393
    Additional Information 1: 0a9e
    Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
    Additional Information 3: 0a9e
    Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

  16. hey do u believe it…i have installed the game again and this time the game is starting

    after selecting the difficulty level easy…the game is starting

    as the game starts the prince is falling down…it is displaying loading…..and again the prince is falling down.again its loading and the prince is falling down…….the same thing is being repeated

    can any1 help me?

  17. hey guyz my game didn’t start i made the changes but after 2-3 seconds it appears dat “prince of persia the forgotten sands is not working”

    plzz help me mine win 7

  18. help how to fix the black screen and i got stuck up at loading when i choose easy or normal it takes loading foreveR!!! help!!!! somebody T_T i need to play this game

  19. hi there I have also POP TFS but the same problem accuring due to launch the game black screen Will accure My PC requirement is windows7, Ram-3GB, 1GB graphic card Nvidia Gforce, AMD Athlon,Hard disk 320GB & the 2.00GHZ is thise the problem of GHZ Please give me favourable rrrreply…. Please I am crazy about the pop series game.

  20. hii frnds plz help , i got stuck in the area where i have to activate a pillar and while doing so when i jump to the pillar to go to the other side , a slight movement of prince and the castle vanishes and i am stuck in mid air, really annoying , graphics problem, if u do have any solutions plz plz help. thnx in advance

  21. hey.
    i got this game from my friend, when i open the .exe file black screen appears and cursors starts loading an suddenly shows princeofpersia.exe has stopped working error message. can anybody help please…..

    • Dude I opened the game with 98 &me it opens perfectly but on loading it shows close the program and sometimes it opens and suddenly shows again close the program what to do plz plz plz help

  22. hey!! everyone ,i have also the same problem the game crashes on startup. but soon ill find a solution i think tomorrow cause my brother had this game a year ago and it was running fine on his laptop,so tomorrow i will ask him he would definitely solve it and i will tell you the method after that ,cause he is a computer enginner and and he can solve any problem ,he solved many problems of game like this and many other,so wish me luck so i would succed

  23. app crash error . exe haa stopped working .anybody plz give me the solution . first i play this game with swift shader . but now exe stopped working

  24. I have the same problem guys.A black screen occurs and after some blinking the black screen goes off and there it says that prince of Persia has stopped working.And when we view problem deatail it says APPCRASH. I’ve tried everything that you guys have told me to do.and I have full system requirements.please please can anyone help me to slove this black screen problem.thank you!

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