I updated to the newest version of Kodi, 17.3 . I also updated my Graphics card from AMD HD7850 to Nvidea GTX 1070. Whenever I start Kodi, I get a black screen and nothing else. I have to start Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) to end Kodi from running. When I restart it again immediately after, It comes up and runs normally without any problems. So far this occurs more than 95% of the time when I first start Kodi the first time. I didn’t have this problem with Kodi 17.2 or earlier versions.
My conclusion is that something is preventing Kodi 17.3 from starting up normally. When I restart it again immediately after, it possible the original startup component is already in memory and allows Kodi to start up normally. Then again I could be completely off. Come to think of it, Maybe Kodi is having problems connecting with my backend – Nextpvr during startup causing the black screen. Then when restarted immediately after, Kodi is able to connect to my backend.