Steam Fix "Stuck a Black Screen With SOE Logo"

This may continue to happen after every Client Hotfox, or every Game Update.
When Playing DC Universe Online On Steam and The LaunchPad will remain at the Black Screen with the SOE Logo. Here is a Fix for it.

Issue: LaunchPad remains at black soe logo screen.
Fix:
Step 1: http://www.soe.com/getthegame
Step 2: Click DCUO Game And Click Run and or click yes after.
Step 3: Set Install Path to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\DC Universe Online
Step 4: Install
Step 5: There will be a LaunchPad and it will do a 30k file check. No need to wait for the long install. Once done. close that LaunchPad and launch DCUO from steam.

Another Fix:

Step 1: Download the game from steam
Step 2: Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\DC Universe Online
Step 3: Open up Launchpad-user and copy and paste everything below
[Settings]
digestURL=http://manifest.patch.station.sony..../launchpad/lp4-live/live/lp-dcuo-live.sha.soe
appName=DC Universe Online
appIcon=DCUO.ico
id=dcuo
width=887
height=590

[Logging]
Address=

[CrashReporter]
Address=recap2.freerealms.net

Step 4: Open the Launchpad application and wait this may take 30 seconds

Note: This may only work for some and feel free to improve my fix.

Thanks Rashad

Your welcome

Super easy fix:
Step 1: Download the game from steam
Step 2: Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\DC Universe Online
Step 3: Delete the Launchpad-user
Step 4: Open the Launchpad application and wait this may take 30 seconds

Special Thanks to Evie Syrena for telling me this way

Note: This may only work for some and feel free to improve my fix

Thanks, my problem's been solved.

BUMB
for those who still having Launchpad issues on steam

I have trouble
Unable to download SocketError:Misc Error (10107 - 12.120.152.128 - http://dcuo.patch.station.sony.com/...zs/66/4d7/2f87050f7f6891b27ab556706d5515109f9

*Warning: Retrying UNINSTALLER.EXE
*Warning: Retrying UNREAL3/DCGAME/COOKEDPC/CHARACTER/GEARGROUP/BACK/DBACKBOOSTERGOLDRAIDMON.UPK
*Warning: Retrying UNREAL3/DCGAME/CONFIG/DEFAULTENGINE.INI
*Warning: Retrying UNINSTALLER.EXE
*Warning: Retrying UNREAL3/DCGAME/COOKEDPC/CHARACTER/GEARGROUP/BACK/DBACKBOOSTERGOLDRAIDMON.UPK
*Warning: Retrying UNREAL3/DCGAME/CONFIG/DEFAULTENGINE.INI
*Warning: Retrying UNREAL3/DCGAME/COOKEDPC/CHARACTER/GEARGROUP/FEET/DBOOTSBLACKMANTARAIDSTK.UPK
*Warning: Retrying UNINSTALLER.EXE
*Warning: Retrying UNREAL3/DCGAME/COOKEDPC/CHARACTER/GEARGROUP/BACK/DBACKBOOSTERGOLDRAIDMON.UPK
*Warning: Retrying UNREAL3/DCGAME/CONFIG/DEFAULTENGINE.INI
*Warning: Retrying UNREAL3/DCGAME/COOKEDPC/CHARACTER/GEARGROUP/FEET/DBOOTSBLACKMANTARAIDSTK.UPK
*Warning: Retrying UNINSTALLER.EXE
*Warning: Retrying UNREAL3/DCGAME/COOKEDPC/CHARACTER/GEARGROUP/BACK/DBACKBOOSTERGOLDRAIDMON.UPK
*Warning: Retrying UNREAL3/DCGAME/CONFIG/DEFAULTENGINE.INI

please help me... :'(

I looked it up and found that you need to manually delete every file of DCUO. To do this follow the steps below:

1). Go to computer
2). Then hard Disk Drives
3). Program Files(x86)
4). Look for Steam
5). Go to steamapps and then common
6). Look for DC Universe Online folder and delete it
7). Download it from Steam again and follow one of my fixes.

Note: Tell me if you have any problems and I'm guessing it didn't work because you got a bad download from Steam.

I do all of this and now i cant login

If you continue to have issues, please feel free to submit a support ticket so we can further assist you.

Oh my god! Dude you're freakin awesome thanks for the help i was really needed stuff like this !
Even Customer service couldn't fix my issue , and u did it thanks again.
Good job.

I was having this problem so I googled dcuo loader blacker and got this link, you sir Rashad saved my behind thank you good sir!

Nice to know that I'm helping people ^.^

Logged in to personally thank you Rashadjc, you sir are a life saviour! I had a LaunchPad connection issue and after attempting all of the 'recommended' fixes and all the tips from the moderators it still failed to launch and I was about to give up when a friend linked me to this post.

It worked and now I'm able to play. I'll be linking others who are also experiencing the issue to this post.

Thank you again Rashadjc

thnx for this info

^ Glad the info Rashadjc provided helped!
Rashadjc thanks again for the info.

Thanks Rashadjc you're a life saver

Ive done everything including this, Ive got 3 different version of DCUO downloaded now and I still cant play the game i used to play on Highest settings.

Yep. This isn't working for me, either. I wish it did.