PSO2 refusing to star

[Phantasm Piper]

My copy of pso2 keeps resetting saying there are updates and then shuts itself off.... I don't know why it keeps doing it though it says it's up to date.

[SophieGOTHICC]

Apparently it's not even a GM cause they don't have staff under their profile? What is with this forum they have lmao. First the Zeke guy now a possible fake GM?

[Oni]

Using fanmade third party software to fix an unknown issue on a game that isn't even launched yet while it's servers are still down for maintenance. I mean what could possibly go wrong.

[ラグナ [Aracune]]

The tweaker is not bad and was even approved by Sega in the past. If they cant resolve their issues, you will see

[Oni]

I dunno, seems like there's a pattern of people who use the tweaker having the issue. lol
At any rate trying to troubleshoot stuff on your own during maintenance and before launch is probably a bad plan.

[Umbral Priestess]

Gnarland の投稿を引用：

Reading the forum it seems GMs say to not use tweaker :o.

They stated there working on a fix.

Incorrect, or rather inaccurate, it means they can't give you any advice or help because it's not managed by them, they don't care about tweaker being present as it's probably the main reason anyone was even playing this game when it released on PC.

[Philly2toes]

Umbral Priestess の投稿を引用：

Gnarland の投稿を引用：

Reading the forum it seems GMs say to not use tweaker :o.

They stated there working on a fix.

Incorrect, or rather inaccurate, it means they can't give you any advice or help because it's not managed by them, they don't care about tweaker being present as it's probably the main reason anyone was even playing this game when it released on PC.

people literally only used tweaker for english patch on jp Lol i wouldnt say its the main reason why people play now

[Umbral Priestess]

philly2toes の投稿を引用：

Umbral Priestess の投稿を引用：

Incorrect, or rather inaccurate, it means they can't give you any advice or help because it's not managed by them, they don't care about tweaker being present as it's probably the main reason anyone was even playing this game when it released on PC.

people literally only used tweaker for english patch on jp Lol i wouldnt say its the main reason why people play now

You may want to carefully read that post again.

Oh, right, i forgot, this is steam forums, so i have to use basic, simplistic posts.

That means when the game was released on PC for GLOBAL very few people could play the game because of the MS store issue, Sega is fully aware of tweaker and has been for a long time now, if they didn't want you to use it they would have denied it access by now.

and even when it was released on steam, the launcher it self also had and still has issues. so tweaker was still the better way to launch it.

[NoSpax]

I upgraded my PSO2 to NGS by ony the steam patching. the game starts normally, I can change settings and when I push the big fat, blue button I can go in-game. Servers are offline as expected, but the client itself runs fine.

What I think is one or more files are corrupted or straight missing from the client. We just need to figure out which ones.
I uploaded my pso2_bin folder just the exes, gameguard and the usual preinstalled pso2 files in to my google drive. You could download them and overwrite the ones you use.

Also check your manifests, gentlemans. it should say "state 4", not 1024 or any other number.

[VenomBlade]

I downloaded the whole game, tried to start, got an error about An update to the game file, so I verified the game files and it failed to validate like 14000 files and the whole 86gb download has restarted. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hell. Hopefully it works this time.

[CatCloud]

VanillaH の投稿を引用：

Dreamer Z the Grumpy Kitsune の投稿を引用：

the games under a 2 day maintenance its not gonna start... it will likely update a few times

again WRONG! people without this issue can launch the launcher and then the game and stare at server select screen. STOP TALKING ABOUT STUFF YOU HAVE 0 IDEA ABOUT

I can confirm, i can get to the Server list and it says "Offline"

anyway, i dont know what is causing this but i would just wait till the servers are properly online and try again instead of trying to solve this when the servers arent up to date, risk for corrupted files or even file conflict. worst case if this is already happening you might need to reinstall by the time everything is up to date.

Good luck.

[Kiragami]

Good to know a piece of 3rd-party software is capable of fixing an issue the devs aren't capable of fixing... So confident in Segas ability to run this game

[Eremiyah]

So far I haven't had this issue......

[CatCloud]

Kiragami の投稿を引用：

Good to know a piece of 3rd-party software is capable of fixing an issue the devs aren't capable of fixing... So confident in Segas ability to run this game

lol, pretty sure this is just a classic case of "user error" situation.

[Kiragami]

CatCloud の投稿を引用：

Kiragami の投稿を引用：

Good to know a piece of 3rd-party software is capable of fixing an issue the devs aren't capable of fixing... So confident in Segas ability to run this game

lol, pretty sure this is just a classic case of "user error" situation.

I mean what's there to screw up? Go on Steam > Download game > Press Play > Boom error
Idk I downloaded the entire game fresh (81.9GB) and it happened.

[NoSpax]

What I understood so far is:
- People upgrading from PSO2 can start the game
- People upgrading can't start due to "update"
- People upgrading which couldn't start due to "update" and fixed that with Tweaker (which downloads from Steam).
- People never even played PSO2 as a clean install DO have this problem.

Check your installs, the game should be 103.485.538.976 bytes big.
The manifest should look like this:

"AppState"
{
	"appid"		"1056640"
	"Universe"		"1"
	"LauncherPath"		"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\steam.exe"
	"name"		"Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis"
	"StateFlags"		"4"
	"installdir"		"PHANTASYSTARONLINE2_NA_STEAM"
	"LastUpdated"		"1623181790"
	"UpdateResult"		"0"
	"SizeOnDisk"		"103485538976"
	"buildid"		"6791542"
	"LastOwner"		"censored"
	"BytesToDownload"		"38555688336"
	"BytesDownloaded"		"38555688336"
	"BytesToStage"		"48350297828"
	"BytesStaged"		"48350297828"
	"AutoUpdateBehavior"		"0"
	"AllowOtherDownloadsWhileRunning"		"0"
	"ScheduledAutoUpdate"		"0"
	"InstalledDepots"
	{
		"1056641"
		{
			"manifest"		"6223389029851558629"
			"size"		"103485538976"
		}
	}
	"InstallScripts"
	{
		"1056641"		"pso2_bin\\installscript.vdf"
	}
	"SharedDepots"
	{
		"228990"		"228980"
	}
	"UserConfig"
	{
		"language"		"english"
	}
}