Stuck on copyright screen

[|Nick]

When I start the game I'm stuck at the copyrightscreen.
It just stops loading.
My Hardware is good and shouldn't be a limiting factor.
The game wasn't installed previously on this PC though.
What could cause this?

[WorstedConch]

I have this issue too. Play the game regularly and now it wont load past the copyright screen

[Roy]

people still having this problem? just started for me.

[Sleepless Assyrian]

Yup. Won't load past the copyright screen for me either - they broke the game.

[Belazarius]

Same here and I saw a post on their forum but it needed to be upvoted to be looked at. Now it's magically gone.

[greenmac75]

this is happening to me today

[Fen'Harel]

No idea what is your issue, but in my case game opens the first screen after launcher and then crashes. It's moded, but all the mods work all right when the game decides to launch one of 40 tries. So it must be something on back end with how the game decides if it will open after first screen or not. We are few of the many with many different issues when it comes to "something-something the game crashes after first screen" (in your case it's frozen for an hour) but sadly I never heard anyone in CA acknowleding the issue with back end. Can't launch the game for two weeks now. Oh wait! It launched...once.

[Fivefingerheist]

I have the same issue. It does not crash but takes an immense amount of time to get past the copyright screen. Are you buy chance using AMD hardware?

[Fen'Harel]

Originally posted by Fivefingerheist:

I have the same issue. It does not crash but takes an immense amount of time to get past the copyright screen. Are you buy chance using AMD hardware?

Yes, I do.

Though: without mods it launches normally (but since it works with mods as well when it decides to launch then it can't be a mod conflict)
And only weird thing I noticed is that this one time it launched the performance was worse than before when I think about it.

[FinanceNerd]

same. wont load

[ougmo]

I have no mods. Did clean install on new drive. Issue still persists. Drivers up to date. Validated files, Run as admin yada yada

[Gorgeous_Joe]

Apparently this is something that the game has experienced in the past, and if you search for answers you will find any number of charlatans telling you how to fix it, the usual, update drivers, verify files, uninstall etc About as useful as tech support is when they tell you to switch it off and on again.
Don't expect any help from TW forums because it's been reported there and the response has been either nothing or delete your configuration files, what the duck is that going to do for you when can't even load the game?!?!?

Anyway, after a lot of trial and error and searching, here is the solution that worked for me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/1htankm/game_stuck_on_copyright_screen_pls_help/?rdt=35050

Seemed to work for others having read the post, so good luck all, doubt CA/TW will be helping you anytime soon.

Just an FYI this is an issue that goes back to WIN7 and maybe before, it's a conflict with your GPU and the App and not all systems have TDR in the REGEDIT, no idea why. Seems that the problem is somewhere between Windows, Graphic Devs and Game Devs. Hence why no one is willing to help you, because someone would have to take responsibility for the problem.
Bear in mind that setting your TDR could cause instability with other Apps or it might just work fine, but if it does you will become a master of REGEDIT having to switch it just to play TW:WH3

[Fen'Harel]

Originally posted by Gorgeous_Joe:

Apparently this is something that the game has experienced in the past, and if you search for answers you will find any number of charlatans telling you how to fix it, the usual, update drivers, verify files, uninstall etc About as useful as tech support is when they tell you to switch it off and on again.
Don't expect any help from TW forums because it's been reported there and the response has been either nothing or delete your configuration files, what the duck is that going to do for you when can't even load the game?!?!?

Anyway, after a lot of trial and error and searching, here is the solution that worked for me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/1htankm/game_stuck_on_copyright_screen_pls_help/?rdt=35050

Seemed to work for others having read the post, so good luck all, doubt CA/TW will be helping you anytime soon.

Haven't checked yet, will see what's it about but yeah, I too love all this "tech support" that has set of "go to - once in a 1000 cases correct answers"

[Fen'Harel]

Ok, I checked it out. Not tried yet, but seen what it's all about. Great if it works but it's editing registry key which is not something you just do without questioning and there is no mention what exactly you are doing with those edits. Any idea what is actualy done in the system by editing those specific registry keys?

[Gorgeous_Joe]

Originally posted by Fen'Harel:

Ok, I checked it out. Not tried yet, but seen what it's all about. Great if it works but it's editing registry key which is not something you just do without questioning and there is no mention what exactly you are doing with those edits. Any idea what is actualy done in the system by editing those specific registry keys?

Timeout Detection and Recovery, a feature in the Windows operating system that detects and recovers from issues with graphics cards. If you don't have it in your registry then following that guide will add it and the numerical settings allow you to set the time delay.

Explains it in more detail here:
https://docs.nvidia.com/gameworks/content/developertools/desktop/timeout_detection_recovery.htm

[Fen'Harel]

Originally posted by Gorgeous_Joe:

Originally posted by Fen'Harel:

Ok, I checked it out. Not tried yet, but seen what it's all about. Great if it works but it's editing registry key which is not something you just do without questioning and there is no mention what exactly you are doing with those edits. Any idea what is actualy done in the system by editing those specific registry keys?

Timeout Detection and Recovery, a feature in the Windows operating system that detects and recovers from issues with graphics cards. If you don't have it in your registry then following that guide will add it and the numerical settings allow you to set the time delay.

Explains it in more detail here:
https://docs.nvidia.com/gameworks/content/developertools/desktop/timeout_detection_recovery.htm

Awesome, thanks for providing solution and detailed explenation! :)