Game suddenly crashes on start up

[Leavian]

I have 100+ hours in the game but suddenly after a bug where I entered a level and there was no sound I rebooted my pc to see if that fixed it.
Now every time I boot the game it loads the initial shader cache. Goes to a black screen with the loading icon. The icon rotates for a second and then the game crashes. I verified files, followed the suggested help and updated my drivers.
Still no luck.
Anyone else had this problem or know how to fix it?

[Freijan]

This happened to me as well two days ago. The oddest thing fixed it:
(Windows 11) System->Sound->Properties. Selecting my "Arctis 7 Game" headphones. Then setting the "Audio enhancements" to Off.

[MrPlowjoy]

Originally posted by Leavian:

I have 100+ hours in the game but suddenly after a bug where I entered a level and there was no sound I rebooted my pc to see if that fixed it.
Now every time I boot the game it loads the initial shader cache. Goes to a black screen with the loading icon. The icon rotates for a second and then the game crashes. I verified files, followed the suggested help and updated my drivers.
Still no luck.
Anyone else had this problem or know how to fix it?

My first suggestion would be to check if the game has a log file and review the contents of that. if it has and you see critical errors about shader decompression, then I suspect the following applies.

Secondly, check your Event Viewer for WHEA-Logger warnings and search specifically for "Internal Parity Error" and "Translation Lookaside Buffer" text in entries.

Games crashing during gameplay or during start up, especially around shader cache, potentially points to a faulty CPU and if I were a betting man...I'd bet you're on a 12th or 13th gen Intel CPU, on a 690 or 790 chipset motherboard.

Edit: I guess I was wrong, lol.

Good luck with the sound problem.

[Leavian]

I upgraded my desktop about 4 months back to a AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D using an MSI - MPG X570S Edge Max Wifi (MS-7D53) mobo.

I checked the console logs and it definitely looks like its a sound issue

<<Lua Error>>scripts/settings/options/sound_settings.lua:219: attempt to index local 'option' (a nil value)<</Lua Error>>

No idea what I can do to fix it.

[Leavian]

Tried plugging in my headphones and the game launches. Gonna experiment around with starting without and with the headphones now. And removing them while playing and see what happens

[Leavian]

Okay if i try booting the game without the headphones plugged in it just crashes every time. Even though the headphones aren't being used as the default sound device. Looks like I'm never unplugging my headphones.

[H@rlequin]

This happens to me if there is an update for my graphic card. If you haven't maybe check for that.