Poly Bridge 2 crashes on startup; no error report

[andrew-g]

I just installed Poly Bridge 2 a couple of days ago, and have been playing it with no issue. Today, upon trying to start the game, it ran an update, then would immediately crash showing a Unity Crash handler window.

I've tried uninstalling & reinstalling the game, and the -force-d3d9 command as per the pinned article (with no success), and tried to recover my crash log from my user files but there is no such log file.

Can anyone help? Any suggestions?

[ice9]

It's odd that you got a game update, as the game hasn't been updated for several weeks.

Did anything change on your system since you were playing the game OK?

[nosods]

I got similar error today, just exit the game about 1 hour for dinner then reopen it, no update but it shows "unity 2018.4.30f1_c698a062d8e6" and a picture of a vw van with exclamation mark. couldn't to solved by reinstall nor -force-d3d9

[ice9]

It's possible something is the savedata is causing this. Can you try to rename this directory:

[user directory]\AppData\LocalLow\Dry Cactus\Poly Bridge 2

to

[user directory]\AppData\LocalLow\Dry Cactus\Poly Bridge 2 Backup

This will ensure PB2 will not be able to read any of the savedata that has been written so far and start fresh. If this does fix the problem, please zip up the "Poly Bridge 2 Backup" directory and send it to [e-mail].

We would really like to examine the savedata and see if we can locate the root problem.

[andrew-g]

Thanks for your help on the issue, Alan!

For an update for anyone having this issue -- I was able to review my Windows crash reports and found out that the faulty module was a .dll file related to my Nvidia driver. I recalled having recently updated my Nvidia driver(s) which included a new driver management tool.

I went back and uninstalled the driver update & Nvidia management tool, and tried Poly Bridge 2 again, and it worked! No troubles so far, so I'm hoping subsequent updates don't cause the issue to come back.