Game crashing on start up

[Raccon]

I'm getting a UE4 fatal error when starting the game up.

I've updated my GPU.
Installed Every Visual Studio.
Uninstalled the game and installed it again.
Does this happens to others ?

[Frost.silenec 0 ping]

crashes for me during startup with "shader compliation" then my PC goes to reboot

[PixelButts]

Stopping by to say this is also occurring to me. Crashes on compiling shaders, completely shuts down the system. Verified that this is consistent as well.
I'm trying the demo specifically because I wanted to mess with the video settings

7950X
7900 XTX (Primary)
A750 (Encoder)

Decided to try swapping from my 7900 XTX to the A750 and it started up no problem, so this is definitely an AMD GPU sided issue. Driver is as up to date as can be currently, no overclocking as well.

[Synthesthesia]

Originally posted by PixelButts:

Stopping by to say this is also occurring to me. Crashes on compiling shaders, completely shuts down the system. Verified that this is consistent as well.
I'm trying the demo specifically because I wanted to mess with the video settings

7950X
7900 XTX (Primary)
A750 (Encoder)

Decided to try swapping from my 7900 XTX to the A750 and it started up no problem, so this is definitely an AMD GPU sided issue. Driver is as up to date as can be currently, no overclocking as well.

It's not. It either crashes or bluescreens my PC, I've got a 4090 with a 13700k.

[PixelButts]

Originally posted by Synthesthesia:

Originally posted by PixelButts:

Stopping by to say this is also occurring to me. Crashes on compiling shaders, completely shuts down the system. Verified that this is consistent as well.
I'm trying the demo specifically because I wanted to mess with the video settings

7950X
7900 XTX (Primary)
A750 (Encoder)

Decided to try swapping from my 7900 XTX to the A750 and it started up no problem, so this is definitely an AMD GPU sided issue. Driver is as up to date as can be currently, no overclocking as well.

It's not. It either crashes or bluescreens my PC, I've got a 4090 with a 13700k.

The point of my comment is to demonstrate that merely changing which GPU the game runs on there is a different result. If you are affected as well that is all the better but you should also add more details other than "You're wrong".

Upon swapping back to the 7900 XTX it is now working, so something strange is definitely happening regardless.

[Synthesthesia]

Originally posted by PixelButts:

Originally posted by Synthesthesia:

It's not. It either crashes or bluescreens my PC, I've got a 4090 with a 13700k.

The point of my comment is to demonstrate that merely changing which GPU the game runs on there is a different result. If you are affected as well that is all the better but you should also add more details other than "You're wrong".

Upon swapping back to the 7900 XTX it is now working, so something strange is definitely happening regardless.

Should have been specific I guess, I meant about it being AMD.

Found a fix though:

Originally posted by Dr.Frosty:

open local files, right click the .exe, select properties, open the compatibility tab, activate the compatibility mode and choose windows 7 (at least I did).

[Jfever64]

Im having a similar issue, but instead of full on crashing it just sits at a black screen and task manager shows its status as "Not Responding". Compatibility mode doesn't fix the issue.

4090 with a Ryzen 9 7950X3D

[elemanioo]

hi guys im getting a problem too

so im trying to open the game but when i launch the game, the game open like game is opened and its on taskbar as well, but the game is not working at all it can open but its just black screen with no background music or no sound at all its just black screen and nothing happens, and when i open the task manager its says "not responding" on lies of p. I cant even see the main menu and i can guarantee that i can at least open the game maybe it gonna run on 30 fps but i can open it there is no way this game can be that "heavy" to open.

i have
gtx 1050 4gb
24gb ram
intel core i7-8750H (cpu is not that good usually i can play the games that i want pretty good)
and idk if there is anything else needed but please HELP!

[PixelButts]

Originally posted by Synthesthesia:

Originally posted by PixelButts:

The point of my comment is to demonstrate that merely changing which GPU the game runs on there is a different result. If you are affected as well that is all the better but you should also add more details other than "You're wrong".

Upon swapping back to the 7900 XTX it is now working, so something strange is definitely happening regardless.

Should have been specific I guess, I meant about it being AMD.

My formal job is Quality Assurance and sometimes working with unknowns requires weird efforts. Both the OP and the second post don't mention any details at all so I figured I'd list mine and see if this happens to be specific to some configuration. They could be on Intel/Nvidia or AMD/Nvidia, or Intel/Intel (lol what a time we live in), but until they mention such it's just throwing darts.

Sometimes it helps to fuzz the ♥♥♥♥ out of it with whatever comes to mind until a result is found. I'm glad I can reproduce it now by completely clearing the cached data and reinstalling the demo so at least it can be further diagnosed. Behaviors like this are legitimately strange to deal with and not always obvious, so any detail is good.

Originally posted by Jfever64:

Im having a similar issue, but instead of full on crashing it just sits at a black screen and task manager shows its status as "Not Responding". Compatibility mode doesn't fix the issue.

4090 with a Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Originally posted by portfolyo:

hi guys im getting a problem too

so im trying to open the game but when i launch the game, the game open like game is opened and its on taskbar as well, but the game is not working at all it can open but its just black screen with no background music or no sound at all its just black screen and nothing happens, and when i open the task manager its says "not responding" on lies of p. I cant even see the main menu and i can guarantee that i can at least open the game maybe it gonna run on 30 fps but i can open it there is no way this game can be that "heavy" to open.

i have
gtx 1050 4gb
24gb ram
intel core i7-8750H (cpu is not that good usually i can play the games that i want pretty good)
and idk if there is anything else needed but please HELP!

Can both of you do me a favor and try using your iGPU (the motherboard one) and see what the result is? Just curious to see what happens.

[elemanioo]

Originally posted by PixelButts:

Originally posted by Synthesthesia:

Should have been specific I guess, I meant about it being AMD.

My formal job is Quality Assurance and sometimes working with unknowns requires weird efforts. Both the OP and the second post don't mention any details at all so I figured I'd list mine and see if this happens to be specific to some configuration. They could be on Intel/Nvidia or AMD/Nvidia, or Intel/Intel (lol what a time we live in), but until they mention such it's just throwing darts.

Sometimes it helps to fuzz the ♥♥♥♥ out of it with whatever comes to mind until a result is found. I'm glad I can reproduce it now by completely clearing the cached data and reinstalling the demo so at least it can be further diagnosed. Behaviors like this are legitimately strange to deal with and not always obvious, so any detail is good.

Originally posted by Jfever64:

Im having a similar issue, but instead of full on crashing it just sits at a black screen and task manager shows its status as "Not Responding". Compatibility mode doesn't fix the issue.

4090 with a Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Originally posted by portfolyo:

hi guys im getting a problem too

so im trying to open the game but when i launch the game, the game open like game is opened and its on taskbar as well, but the game is not working at all it can open but its just black screen with no background music or no sound at all its just black screen and nothing happens, and when i open the task manager its says "not responding" on lies of p. I cant even see the main menu and i can guarantee that i can at least open the game maybe it gonna run on 30 fps but i can open it there is no way this game can be that "heavy" to open.

i have
gtx 1050 4gb
24gb ram
intel core i7-8750H (cpu is not that good usually i can play the games that i want pretty good)
and idk if there is anything else needed but please HELP!

Can both of you do me a favor and try using your iGPU (the motherboard one) and see what the result is? Just curious to see what happens. [/quote]
nothing changed still the black screen and nothing

[elemanioo]

Originally posted by Jfever64:

Im having a similar issue, but instead of full on crashing it just sits at a black screen and task manager shows its status as "Not Responding". Compatibility mode doesn't fix the issue.

4090 with a Ryzen 9 7950X3D

EXATCLY THE SAME İSSUE MAN i having that problem too just the same nothing diffrent and i cant ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ find a fix, PLEASE BUT PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU FIND HOW TO FIX THIS MAN!

[Malice31]

mine is crashing, says out of video memory. i have a 4090 and 13900k.

[Nocturnal]

My PC completely froze once and rebooted itsself after like 5 hours of total in game time.
Ryzen 4650g
RX 6600

[RadioactiveRubberPants]

My game just exits by the time I get to the 1st little mini-boss. Doesn't produce a message or anything, just exits like it wasn't even running.

5800X, 3080Ti, 32GB RAM, nvme 3.0, win10 which is the recommended OS. Nv driver 531.61 but there's nothing in the latest driver release notes that says anything about Lies of P so no optimizations for the game exist yet.

[Arcensis]

Same here, the game doesn't start and the screen is just going black. Although i have most of the recommended features on my PC

[Nocturne]

Which exactly "fatal error" you are getting? Is it by some chance dx12 related?

From what I see, my game skips shader compilation entirely and compiles them "on the fly" during game. It had massive impact with defer dxvk[Vulcan] I've tried at first, but it works almost seamlessly with async one. So if you can't run game anyway - maybe try running it on Vulkan instead of DX12 as well? Works fine for me.