I can't launch the game.

[$waggyGho$t]

it doesn't work when i press the play button, I press it and nothing happens. What i can do ?

[SenilBiffen]

You are logged in on origin?

[$waggyGho$t]

Yes, i was. I tried to reinstall the Origin and now it working. Thank you for help bro.

[desreveR]

I still can't run it.
First it crashed during the first note of music, and Origin shut down, too.
Then I was unable to launch the game at all until I manually started Origin again, clicked on the game and tried to run it from the desktop shortcut. Only then, and not in any other way I got a popup telling me there was no save data for the game in the cloud (no ♥♥♥♥, Sherlock).
First I tried the cloud alternative, which crashed the game even earlier with the screen flickering to black and back and I had to do the same long procedure to get the alternative to choose to upload local save files.
Now it crashes like it did the first time, only this time I don't seem to be able to find any way to troubleshoot the damned thing.
♥♥♥♥ EA, ♥♥♥♥ Origin and ♥♥♥♥ Denuvo or whatever DRM(s) they're using!

Edit: Seeing that some have been experiencing crashes when using their VPN I turned mine off, and now I get three seconds of the first note of music before it crashes, and the music itself has stutters. First a short one less then a second in, then a nearly ten seconds long stutter before the note continues for a second before it all crashes back to the desktop.
The only real difference from before is that Origin seems to stay without crashing.

[layo]

I can't launch the game either. Once after rebooting, I succeeded to watch the first few seconds from intro, then bang, crashed again.

[Brooklyn Zoo]

my game keeps crashing too. sometimes on the very first loading screen and sometimes when entering a picture.

[kabumba]

Same problem here. When I start the game Origin pops out and says "Unravel seems not to be installed".

I guess the problem is, that I allready owned the game on Origin, de-installed it and installed afterwards the steam-versions (don't ask, why I bought the steam-version, when I allready have the origin-version).

However, Unravel Two wirks fine, and I owned it on origin before, too!.

(Sry for my bad english)

[Dale 💗]

Same, crashes whilst loading. You hear the first not then a black screen before it happens.

[miszczpz]

Same for me, game crashes after like 3-5 seconds of intro music (with black screen)

Edit:
I found the solution that worked for me:

For most, it has been a problem with the K-Lite Codec Pack.

Try updating or uninstalling.the Codec Pack

[NoirFlameKitsune]

am having the same issues i bought the bundle unravel 2 works wonderfully but for some reason unravel wont work i tried repairing, uninstalling reinstalling, clearing cashe, validating files, and rebooting. EA gave me one option then told me to talk to steam but steam wont talk to me cause its a 3 party company so am very confused if any of you have any ideas am open for suggestions

[KiwiLee10]

Hi Guys,

I had the same issue with Unravel starting up ok but being stuck at the loading screen indefinitely (black screen, pulsing white dot).

I've been at it trying to find a solution for 3 days now. And I FOUND A SOLUTION working for me:

I installed the latest Windows Media Feature Pack (x64_1903_V1) of May 2019. Rebooted my PC and was able to immediately play Unravel on Steam via Origin. You can download media pack here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/mediafeaturepack

Steps I've tried before this (which didn't work) but may be worth giving a try:

- Updating all hardware drivers
- Updated Windows
- Installing newest Radeon Software Adrenalin driver 20.5.1
- Back-installing Radeon Software Adrenalin driver to version 20.4.2. (currently active)
- Uninstalling / installing newest version of Origin
- Uninstalling / installing Unravel (via Steam)
- Cleaned Origin Cache
- Starting Origin as well as Unravel.exe in compatibility mode (not active, didn't make a difference)
- Starting Origin as well as Unravel.exe as administrator (still active)
- Updated + repaired the game (didn't make a difference)
- Installing K-Lite Codec Pack (Uninstalled later, Unravel still running with above mentioned working solution)
- Installed newest Java software
- Tried a clean boot (no difference)
- Updated/installed newest Visual C++ Redistributable Packages

I hope this helps people fixing and playing Unravel.

[layo]

Thanks, K-Lite Codec Pack helped me.

[desreveR]

I bought it again after getting hold of another computer and tried to get it to run, and it went quite well.
For 2 more seconds than on my main pc before Denuvo crapped itself and Origin had to go change its diapers and took the game with it.

[Crochet_Hades]

K-lite helped me too. Thank you

[crux]

Thanks for the k-lite tip. I helped.

[Montago]

Run the game from Origin..