I can help you on that! The mc is meant to get more exp than others, read his Gift discription. And I got beat a lot too before I searched for a fix and... Well, you will feel dumb like I did. Go to options and change the difficult to 50%, then you can beat any enemy. And the black screen is because of your video card or outdated driver, it's not the game. I know because I got the same problem on my old potato laptop on other games last year.