Empire Total War wont launch / crashes on startup

[louie]

Basically, I've been playing ETW with darthmod on and it's been working fine. Then one day, i try to start up DME and it works untill i start a campaign. so to fix it i deleted DME but it just made it worse because now empire (Even though it's vanilla now) won't start when i press play on steam or double click on the desktop icon.

I been trying to fix it for a while now and I've verified integrity of files an uncountable amount of times, done a fresh reinstall, deleted my empire folder in C:\users\username\appdata\roaming, ran it as an administrator, ran it in compatibility mode, ran steam itself as an administrator and deleted my preferences and user script files to no avail.

And to make things worth, i experienced the exact same problem with Napoleon Total War. (I uninstalled Napoleon and downloaded Empire as an alternative)

Can anyone please help?

[Gavsterman]

been having the same issue with both ETW and NTW. really a shame because they are my 2 favorite TW games

[EinherjarKind]

Try stop anti-virus. If you are starting ETW on non-English system, disable foreign-language front-end process. ETW without mod system (empire_script reading) can be started on my Windows10.

[louie]

Originally posted by EinherjarKind:

Try stop anti-virus. If you are starting ETW on non-English system, disable foreign-language front-end process. ETW without mod system (empire_script reading) can be started on my Windows10.

Hi, i've tried that to no avail aswell. I've given up at this point lol so dont worry bout finding any other fix.

[EinherjarKind]

Originally posted by louie:

Originally posted by EinherjarKind:

Hi, i've tried that to no avail aswell. I've given up at this point lol so dont worry bout finding any other fix.

My last suggestion is to apply 4GB patch. Under the setting without modding, If application errors indicate access violation in crushdumps, a memory-related problem during start-up are one of possible causes. Eliminate resident applications (startup programs and applications inserting some codes into all application programs) as possible as you can.

[louie]

Originally posted by EinherjarKind:

Originally posted by louie:

My last suggestion is to apply 4GB patch. Under the setting without modding, If application errors indicate access violation in crushdumps, a memory-related problem during start-up are one of possible causes. Eliminate resident applications (startup programs and applications inserting some codes into all application programs) as possible as you can.

I'll try it out. I'm not expecting anything to work though.

[EinherjarKind]

Originally posted by louie:

I'll try it out. I'm not expecting anything to work though.

I just came up with an idea to stop Steam overlay in Steam App.

[Alwyn]

How annoying! If you've deleted the main game folder and C:\users\username\appdata\roaming\The Creative Assembly\Empire, you've already carried out a complete reinstall, there shouldn't be anything of your previous install left.

You've already tried several things listed here, https://support.sega.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4407164255377-My-Total-War-game-on-STEAM-does-not-launch-and-or-crashes, I'm simply posting the link in case there's anything that you haven't tried. Good luck!

[louie]

Originally posted by Alwyn:

How annoying! If you've deleted the main game folder and C:\users\username\appdata\roaming\The Creative Assembly\Empire, you've already carried out a complete reinstall, there shouldn't be anything of your previous install left.

You've already tried several things listed here, https://support.sega.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4407164255377-My-Total-War-game-on-STEAM-does-not-launch-and-or-crashes, I'm simply posting the link in case there's anything that you haven't tried. Good luck!

Thanks. Unfortunatly nothing working. I just bought rome II and it's working fine as a alternative lol so i'm satisfied with my total war cravings

[louie]

Originally posted by EinherjarKind:

Originally posted by louie:

I'll try it out. I'm not expecting anything to work though.

I just came up with an idea to stop Steam overlay in Steam App.

I'll try too.

[OZFugazi]

as replied a couple posts down..

https://steamcommunity.com/app/10500/discussions/0/6164890302173839316/

gl. you will get it.

all the best.

[Vacuum]

Originally posted by louie:

Basically, I've been playing ETW with darthmod on and it's been working fine. Then one day, i try to start up DME and it works untill i start a campaign. so to fix it i deleted DME but it just made it worse because now empire (Even though it's vanilla now) won't start when i press play on steam or double click on the desktop icon.

I been trying to fix it for a while now and I've verified integrity of files an uncountable amount of times, done a fresh reinstall, deleted my empire folder in C:\users\username\appdata\roaming, ran it as an administrator, ran it in compatibility mode, ran steam itself as an administrator and deleted my preferences and user script files to no avail.

And to make things worth, i experienced the exact same problem with Napoleon Total War. (I uninstalled Napoleon and downloaded Empire as an alternative)

Can anyone please help?

Hi,

unsure if you found the fix to this if not it should be this:

on your C drive search for 'The Creative Assembly'. (Windows doesn't show this folder as standard so the search must be done)

in that folder you have 'Empire'
in that folder you will see 'script'
Delete Script.

run game and that should solve your issue.

This will send the game back to vanilla

[Sanguine]

Originally posted by louie:

Originally posted by EinherjarKind:

I just came up with an idea to stop Steam overlay in Steam App.

I'll try too.

hey did you fix it, i can't launch it too

[Pota6k]

Originally posted by Vacuum:

Originally posted by louie:

Basically, I've been playing ETW with darthmod on and it's been working fine. Then one day, i try to start up DME and it works untill i start a campaign. so to fix it i deleted DME but it just made it worse because now empire (Even though it's vanilla now) won't start when i press play on steam or double click on the desktop icon.

I been trying to fix it for a while now and I've verified integrity of files an uncountable amount of times, done a fresh reinstall, deleted my empire folder in C:\users\username\appdata\roaming, ran it as an administrator, ran it in compatibility mode, ran steam itself as an administrator and deleted my preferences and user script files to no avail.

And to make things worth, i experienced the exact same problem with Napoleon Total War. (I uninstalled Napoleon and downloaded Empire as an alternative)

Can anyone please help?

Hi,

unsure if you found the fix to this if not it should be this:

on your C drive search for 'The Creative Assembly'. (Windows doesn't show this folder as standard so the search must be done)

in that folder you have 'Empire'
in that folder you will see 'script'
Delete Script.

run game and that should solve your issue.

This will send the game back to vanilla

thank you so much

[louie]

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Originally posted by Vacuum:

Originally posted by louie:

Basically, I've been playing ETW with darthmod on and it's been working fine. Then one day, i try to start up DME and it works untill i start a campaign. so to fix it i deleted DME but it just made it worse because now empire (Even though it's vanilla now) won't start when i press play on steam or double click on the desktop icon.

I been trying to fix it for a while now and I've verified integrity of files an uncountable amount of times, done a fresh reinstall, deleted my empire folder in C:\users\username\appdata\roaming, ran it as an administrator, ran it in compatibility mode, ran steam itself as an administrator and deleted my preferences and user script files to no avail.

And to make things worth, i experienced the exact same problem with Napoleon Total War. (I uninstalled Napoleon and downloaded Empire as an alternative)

Can anyone please help?

Hi,

unsure if you found the fix to this if not it should be this:

on your C drive search for 'The Creative Assembly'. (Windows doesn't show this folder as standard so the search must be done)

in that folder you have 'Empire'
in that folder you will see 'script'
Delete Script.

run game and that should solve your issue.

This will send the game back to vanilla

I'll try this now and see if it works - by the way, would the same work for Napoleon? Thanks.

[louie]

Originally posted by Vacuum:

Originally posted by louie:

Basically, I've been playing ETW with darthmod on and it's been working fine. Then one day, i try to start up DME and it works untill i start a campaign. so to fix it i deleted DME but it just made it worse because now empire (Even though it's vanilla now) won't start when i press play on steam or double click on the desktop icon.

I been trying to fix it for a while now and I've verified integrity of files an uncountable amount of times, done a fresh reinstall, deleted my empire folder in C:\users\username\appdata\roaming, ran it as an administrator, ran it in compatibility mode, ran steam itself as an administrator and deleted my preferences and user script files to no avail.

And to make things worth, i experienced the exact same problem with Napoleon Total War. (I uninstalled Napoleon and downloaded Empire as an alternative)

Can anyone please help?

Hi,

unsure if you found the fix to this if not it should be this:

on your C drive search for 'The Creative Assembly'. (Windows doesn't show this folder as standard so the search must be done)

in that folder you have 'Empire'
in that folder you will see 'script'
Delete Script.

run game and that should solve your issue.

This will send the game back to vanilla

Hi - sadly, it didnt work. I've done some more digging and i think now the reason is because i use windows 11 OS, which empire apparently doesnt support. Thanks for your suggestion, though.