Looking at the community page there are definitely other people with the same or similar issues. No unique solutions though. Just the things I’ve already tried (which I list in a different comment).

This is so depressing.

Monitor is plugged into graphics card.

For those playing at home I have uninstalled, reinstalled, verified integrity of files, tried all combinations of running steam and dishonored as admin, there are no events in the event viewer, I have disabled onboard graphics, I tried running it off of a different hard drive, I tried starting it in windowed mode, I’ve tried compatibility modes for win 7 and 8, I’ve updated my graphics card driver, and there are no windows updates to apply.

I’m basically out of options over here. Looks like I don’t get to play this game.

I will check out that event viewer. I had verified the game files though yes.