Game won't start.

[Inkidu]

Booted it up yesterday, did the tutorials, went to bed. Woke up this morning and tried to play. Game wouldn't launch. Tries, fails, no message.

I verified the cache and updated my graphics drivers. It's not been running afoul of my anti-virus, don't know what's up.

[Inkidu]

I'll just take my money back. I hate having my time wasted, I'll be damned if I lose my money too.

[JayTwoPointOh [Shiro]]

Hey Inkidu,

Can you share your system specs?

Alternatively, trying to launch the game with OpenGL instead of DirectX (or vice versa) has remedied similar reports in the past!

We'll try and get to the bottom of this for you, apologies for the inconvenience here!

James

[BloodE4gle]

same. uninstalled deleted everything and then reinstalled and if you go to local files theres nothing there lol. newest update is messed up. instaling the game doesnt install the files

[Inkidu]

Originally posted by JayTwoPointOh Shiro:

Hey Inkidu,

Can you share your system specs?

Alternatively, trying to launch the game with OpenGL instead of DirectX (or vice versa) has remedied similar reports in the past!

We'll try and get to the bottom of this for you, apologies for the inconvenience here!

James

No, I'm good. I've got my refund. I got twenty-five minutes of play and spent an hour trying to make your game work. I'm not risking going over the two hour mark on this if it won't even launch, and it's not like it didn't launch once.

[Robineus]

Restarting steam fixes this particular problem, apparently turn it on and off again is a bit too complex for some people.

[Inkidu]

Originally posted by Robineus:

Restarting steam fixes this particular problem, apparently turn it on and off again is a bit too complex for some people.

It does not. I tried it three distinct times and then just adopted it as policy as I tried to implement more of the fixes from this very forum.

I know you were really hoping for that little ego boost today, but in the interest of transparency I felt obligated to let you know.

[JayTwoPointOh [Shiro]]

Originally posted by Inkidu:

Originally posted by JayTwoPointOh Shiro:

Hey Inkidu,

Can you share your system specs?

Alternatively, trying to launch the game with OpenGL instead of DirectX (or vice versa) has remedied similar reports in the past!

We'll try and get to the bottom of this for you, apologies for the inconvenience here!

James

No, I'm good. I've got my refund. I got twenty-five minutes of play and spent an hour trying to make your game work. I'm not risking going over the two hour mark on this if it won't even launch, and it's not like it didn't launch once.

No worries, sorry for the issues here but cheers for your interest all the same!

Have a great weekend,
James

[Eisbonbon]

Had kind of the same issue.
Played tutorial some initial GPU settings issues. Switched to OpenGl played some tutorial. Looked foward to game a little bit today but game didn't launch.

For whatever reason compatibility modus for Win 8 did fix it.
Steam -> Dune Spice Wards -> Browse Local Files -> Right click on D4X.exe (open context menu) -> click properties -> Compatiblity -> Run this program in compatibility modus for: -> Windows 8 -> Apply

Try to start the game otherwise undo these steps.

Win 10,
AMD GPU 6750xt
AMD CPU 3600

[aeligos]

Encountering same issue.

I had played 8 hours thus far. Today however I wanted to play again but I am being denied.

Nothing has changed on my end in terms of PC components.

I validated files. That checks out green.

I uninstalled then reinstalled but that had no effect.

Of note, the End User License Agreement will not appear. Not sure if that has anything to do with it. I've seen that EULA pop up for other games I hadn't touched in a while but those games work just fine post EULA acceptance.

:coffee:

[LazyScribe]

Having a similar issue here. Just bought. Can play skirmish but any time I try to begin the conquest campaign it crashes. Lets me pick the two people I'll have with me then when I click start it goes to the load screen, goes to 1%, then goes back to 0% then crashes.