dinput8.dll
I put off playing till I was sure the mods I had were updated. SMF says Heritage UI has (y) version number, update fails (can’t connect to server?) but Nexus has it as version (x). But that’s another topic.
Anyway, I, too, once again had the black screen at startup and could only be killed with Task Manager. Removed the bugger and am hitmanning again. Well, that is, until after the mods I’m trying to use actually successfully deploy. Take out a few unessentials and try try try again.