Greetings, So, last night everything worked correctly. I opened my file this morning, which was saved in one of the "Mysterious Portal" places, and all the in-game world sprites are all black! I can hold my mouse over characters such as my hunting diggles and doors and see the display text, but the actual map and characters only show up as black. This even occurs in the loading menu, as you can see from the screenshot. Any ideas? I should be able to play from my autosave, thankfully, but I hate that I lost the progress I made. Thanks!
I have the same problem, seems its best just to avoid mysterious portals, after fighting through about 10 rooms of high levels on a level 4 character I loaded up the save and everything is black.
In my game, getting a blackscreen (happens sometimes when save-scumming after death in the mysterious portal dimension) was always fixed by using the portal exit for the level (which always takes me to a new mysterious portal level, but at least not black anymore). You may have to use the map to find your way to the exit portal, though.