The splash screen (game cover art) displays for about a second, but then disappears and a black screen shows for about 3 seconds until the game launches. The splash screen should be displayed as soon as possible during startup (which is already happening) and be shown until the game itself has started.
The boot loader displays the splash screen initially, but the kernel initialization resets the video mode and/or blanks the screen while it boots. Instead it should either leave the splash screen alone, or redisplay it for the duration of the startup.