I downloaded the update but sadly only thing that changed was the cursor which I'm assuming was something that you changed with the update :/.
I tried messing with my graphics drivers and updating them in case it was something with that because I looked up common reasons why a game may give you a black screen but still play noise and stuff and most of it was saying that is probably the cause but still starts the same way, another post mentioned that the resolution I have could be the issue I've got 1366 x 768 and unfortunately I cant go any higher and I did see you said to fix text and stuff bleeding out of the textboxes to change resolution so maybe it's that?
In any case sorry for getting back to you late