Can't launch the game

[Northern Blaze]

Ever since this update came out, I keep crashing every time I get to the main menu. It'll be black, but I can hear the music. I can't alt + F4 and task manager won't work. I have to do a hard shut down. Anyone know a solution?

Yes, I've verified integrity and my drivers are up to date

[oOOOoeAaaAAaAAaaAAAhHHHhhHhee...]

Sounds a lot like the issue I have been having. I'm still in the process of investigating a fix/workaround but I think some of the suggestions people have made here so far could help:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1458140/discussions/0/6352962881245428217/

[oOOOoeAaaAAaAAaaAAAhHHHhhHhee...]

Mine generally runs the game for a bit but crashes on an unresponsive black screen with music. Complete Display output failure.

I haven't had time for a lengthy session yet, so the suggestions may or may not have fixed it already. Ill update the thread once I have.

[animal_PLANET]

When this happens. Do you have the ability to alt-ctrl-del in order to sign out to sign back in again? Or is system completely locked up?

[Northern Blaze]

Originally posted by animal_PLANET:

When this happens. Do you have the ability to alt-ctrl-del in order to sign out to sign back in again? Or is system completely locked up?

Nope! System completely locks up

[Northern Blaze]

Originally posted by oOOOoeAaaAAaAAaaAAAhHHHhhHhee...:

Mine generally runs the game for a bit but crashes on an unresponsive black screen with music. Complete Display output failure.

I haven't had time for a lengthy session yet, so the suggestions may or may not have fixed it already. Ill update the thread once I have.

Yeah, sounds like my issue, except I just flat out can't even get to the MENU

[Northern Blaze]

Originally posted by oOOOoeAaaAAaAAaaAAAhHHHhhHhee...:

Sounds a lot like the issue I have been having. I'm still in the process of investigating a fix/workaround but I think some of the suggestions people have made here so far could help:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1458140/discussions/0/6352962881245428217/

I think I found the issue! Do you have voicemod installed by any chance?

[CowboyKing06]

Originally posted by oOOOoeAaaAAaAAaaAAAhHHHhhHhee...:

Mine generally runs the game for a bit but crashes on an unresponsive black screen with music. Complete Display output failure.

I haven't had time for a lengthy session yet, so the suggestions may or may not have fixed it already. Ill update the thread once I have.

Sounds like a windows issue, a couple friends of mine are having an issue since the previous Windows update where their tower won't connect to their monitor.

[cainboy]

Also running into problems, game fails to start up and closes itself down. I actually got it going, and in the tutorial as i was getting sucked into the red thing, it actually crashed/reset my computer lol.

i'm not hyper tech savvy, so advice that's not hyper technical would be great.
i'll try running it on the not recommended direct x 11, and some other things. i just wanted to play a bit before sleep, but i'm just too tired to think straight.
oh well.

[BlackWater]

Originally posted by zen:

Get a professional to look at it. It could be many things.

i may have to go that route, more and more games, which used to work perfectly fine, are causing my PC to shutdown, and a few I can replicate the issue at the same spot in said games, already cleaned out dust, but suspect a failing GPU, This game though is working fine and not giving me any bs, unlike my other fav games. If my swapping out the GPU doesnt send this Fng bs packing I'll be doimng the same.

[cainboy]

Originally posted by BlackWater:

Originally posted by zen:

Get a professional to look at it. It could be many things.

i may have to go that route, more and more games, which used to work perfectly fine, are causing my PC to shutdown, and a few I can replicate the issue at the same spot in said games, already cleaned out dust, but suspect a failing GPU, This game though is working fine and not giving me any bs, unlike my other fav games. If my swapping out the GPU doesnt send this Fng bs packing I'll be doimng the same.

I built my rig about 14 months ago, and I'd yet to encounter something like this. from my perspective its a software issue, not a hardware one. After work i'll really try to dig into solutions, its just hard when I get 0 info on why the failure happens, and my computer isnt even struggling or making any sounds of effort to make me wonder if its ok.

[cainboy]

small update that hopefully may help someone else: I dropped down to Direct X 11 from the recommended 12, and it so far seems to be working fine.
so something with my computer and D12 seems .... not happy lol.

[BlackWater]

Originally posted by cainboy:

Originally posted by BlackWater:

i may have to go that route, more and more games, which used to work perfectly fine, are causing my PC to shutdown, and a few I can replicate the issue at the same spot in said games, already cleaned out dust, but suspect a failing GPU, This game though is working fine and not giving me any bs, unlike my other fav games. If my swapping out the GPU doesnt send this Fng bs packing I'll be doimng the same.

I built my rig about 14 months ago, and I'd yet to encounter something like this. from my perspective its a software issue, not a hardware one. After work i'll really try to dig into solutions, its just hard when I get 0 info on why the failure happens, and my computer isnt even struggling or making any sounds of effort to make me wonder if its ok.

ANYTHING you could find out would be most helpful, and here is the kicker while some newer games do it or i get an instant shutdown upon launch, its the older games that have started doing it when they worked perfectly fine before. I don't overclock or anything like that. I CAN tell you that Ive had it shutdown either when its transitioning to a new area (Echo) Splash landing on the water planet in Outer Wilds, when I deflate the air bladder in Subnautica, and recently Evil Within and Batman Arkham Knight both joined the bs shutdown for no flipping reason when in red lit areas, and not even a whine from the GPU before hand. ALL the games I listed use to work perfectly fine, and so far, no such crap from pacific Drive, though its a bit choppy, still fine tuning settings to get the smoothest play yet still looking decent.

I'm Windows 10 x64

Intel (R) Core (TM) i5-6500 CPU 3.20 GHz
16 gig RAM
Radeon xt 470 4 gig

[BlackWater]

Originally posted by cainboy:

small update that hopefully may help someone else: I dropped down to Direct X 11 from the recommended 12, and it so far seems to be working fine.
so something with my computer and D12 seems .... not happy lol.

About that, I thought I was still on direct X 10, let alone 11 or 12, yet when i launched this after buying it, fully expecting it to not work, it plays fine in both modes, and seems to do better in 12, does this get updated in windows update or something? i never updated it, as i have older games i still wish to play (Yes, Evil Within, as soon as i get this crap fixed, we'll be back to show chainsaw boy whose boss again)