Cyberpunk 2077 CRASHES UPON HITTING PLAY (RELATED TO REDLauncher) - FIX

[Aviantx]

I spent about 3 hours with my friend tracking down the issue, i was having, where i would simply press play, it would appear cyberpunk was launching, but nothing would happen.

upon investigation, we discovered steam was trying - but failing to execute the REDlauncher to start the game (launching the games EXE in the bin folder still launched the game) but we were determined to find the cause.

it turns out you MUST have the Microsoft C++ 2019 versions (both x64 and x86) installed in order for the Redlauncher to work properly.

Here are the Downloads Direct from MS and their parent site: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/


Visual studio C++ 2019 - (x64 & x86):

https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/VC_redist.x64.exe


https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/VC_redist.x86.exe


Edit: Another Possible fix posted by ThisIsMachine that worked for him:

Uninstall redlauncher and reinstall from the program cyberpunk files. (program settings, local files, and the game file folder which contains the RedLauncher install/container


I HOPE to god this helps someone, because i did everything imaginable, verify game files, reboot, manually change file strings to try to get the RedLauncher to respond to steam commands, install other Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables for like 2015 version.... nothing worked until i tried the C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2019.

Again, i REALLY hope this helps someone out. because i wanted so badly to enjoy this game only to be blocked. - which was upsetting to say the least.

[StAlfonzo87]

My REDLauncher opened, but pressing play in there caused the crash. Disabling Nvidia overlay solved it for me.

[Aviantx]

Publicado originalmente por St Alphonzo:

My REDLauncher opened, but pressing play in there caused the crash. Disabling Nvidia overlay solved it for me.

want me to add this to the thread as another potential fix?

[Blood Arnie]

I have the same issue: crashes upon the start ("Oops! The game flatlined"), and I've tried the following so far:
- Updated NVIDIA drivers
- Verified integrity of game files;
- Downloaded and installed Visual Studio C++ 2019 for x64 and x86, like OP suggested;
- Disabled / re-enabled Steam overlay
- Removed REDlauncher, and re-installed it again.

The only thing that helped so far was setting BOTH the launcher and executable (in bin folder) to run as administrator, but that only allowed me to run the game maybe few times, and the executable has to be opened from the folder. It still crashes on start-up (maybe half the times), so idk if that would be a solution or not. Anyone has any other ideas on how to make it work ?

[󠀡󠀡]

None of these worked for me. The game plays fine but the RED Launcher keeps throwing out errors.

I use this launch option to skip out the launcher entirely: --launcher-skip

[ReignFyre]

Publicado originalmente por ❄:

None of these worked for me. The game plays fine but the RED Launcher keeps throwing out errors.

I use this launch option to skip out the launcher entirely: --launcher-skip

yes! .. I spent 4 hours updating/reinstalling drivers, verifying files and doing a "clean install" of the game, searching online, uninstalling/reinstalling REDLauncher, trying multiple other "fixes" or "work-arounds" until I finally checked the Error Logs and found the same problem: REDLauncher crashing was causing Cyberpunk not to launch. I didn't even know u could skip the launcher until I found the same advice on reddit: "--launcher-skip" saved the day

I'm sure this is not ideal for CDPR and we will not get drops (or whatever else is handled by the launcher), but at least we can play :)