When i launch up the game, it's just a window with black screen titled "Sonic Origins" obviously. Then seconds later, the window gets forced into fullscreen and I can't do anything

[Clockwork]

How do I fix this? Some friend of mine said my pc specs were great to run the game.
Verifying ingreity of files, not working.

[keeperofcastlegreydusk]

Unfortunately I'm not the guy with the solution to this problem. Sorry about that... :(

I can only say that as of today, I also cannot launch the game, except that I don't even get a window with a black screen. Instead, when I try to run Sonic Origins, the Play button in the Steam Library briefly changes to say Cancel, then Stop, and then goes straight back to Play! All in the space of a few seconds.

I did not deliberately change anything about my PC setup since yesterday (<EDIT> A Windows auto-update might have, but I don't know if that happened). So it seems unlikely to be a hardware issue unless my old-ass device is starting to malfunction without my knowledge. I am just at a loss right now. :o

[Clockwork]

Originally posted by keeperofcastlegreydusk:

Unfortunately I'm not the guy with the solution to this problem. Sorry about that... :(

I can only say that as of today, I also cannot launch the game, except that I don't even get a window with a black screen. Instead, when I try to run Sonic Origins, the Play button in the Steam Library briefly changes to say Cancel, then Stop, and then goes straight back to Play! All in the space of a few seconds.

I did not change anything about my PC setup since yesterday, so it seems unlikely to be a hardware issue unless my old-ass device is starting to malfunction without my knowledge. So, I am just at a loss right now. :o

Well.. I found a solution.
Go to steam's settings (not the game's options) and click on interface. You should see
Client Beta Participation.
If it's No beta chosen, changee it to Steam Beta Update.
Your steam should restart, and then the game will work.

[keeperofcastlegreydusk]

Oh wow, I never would've thought of that. Great stuff, sorry again that I was... no use.

[Clockwork]

Originally posted by keeperofcastlegreydusk:

Oh wow, I never would've thought of that. Great stuff, sorry again that I was... no use.

It's no problem, I understand you were having almost the same problem.

[Arisu]

just had that issue myself, I uninstalled, re-installed and it didn't help
so I just waited a bit, like 30-40 secs and it loaded up
I think denuvo is at fault here or something, could be something on their end and its preventing the game from loading
either way this isn't good when I just literally bought this today and have 3 very capable PCs

[↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect]

Has to be something with the hardware as I'm not having any problems with the game.

It might be an Intel/nvidia problem or an amd/nvida/Radeon problem.

I have an amd/nvidia and never had a problem with this game.

Also this game does have a problem running on dual core cpus as the games minimum needs a quad core. Cause this game will not run on my dual core laptop.

[Arisu]

Originally posted by ↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect:

Has to be something with the hardware as I'm not having any problems with the game.

It might be an Intel/nvidia problem or an amd/nvida/Radeon problem.

I have an amd/nvidia and never had a problem with this game.

Also this game does have a problem running on dual core cpus as the games minimum needs a quad core. Cause this game will not run on my dual core laptop.

If Denuvo wasn't a thing I could test on a whole bunch of stuff

I have a laptop with a i5 10300h and a gtx 1650
I have a desktop with a ryzen 7 5800x3D and a RTX 4070ti
I have another desktop with a ryzen 5 5500 and a rtx 2060
another desktop with a i7 9700k and a RX 580
another desktop with a i5 4440 (haswell)
I could throw together another desktop with a ryzen 3 3200g
and last resort pulling out a phenom 965 black or a fx 8350, but no ty LOL

but no ty in my case if I wait it out its 30 secs... dunno why
considering this game is on my samsung 860 evo it will load up just fine
but theres no reason it needs to take 30 secs

[↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect]

Originally posted by Arisu:

Originally posted by ↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect:

Has to be something with the hardware as I'm not having any problems with the game.

It might be an Intel/nvidia problem or an amd/nvida/Radeon problem.

I have an amd/nvidia and never had a problem with this game.

Also this game does have a problem running on dual core cpus as the games minimum needs a quad core. Cause this game will not run on my dual core laptop.

If Denuvo wasn't a thing I could test on a whole bunch of stuff

I have a laptop with a i5 10300h and a gtx 1650
I have a desktop with a ryzen 7 5800x3D and a RTX 4070ti
I have another desktop with a ryzen 5 5500 and a rtx 2060
another desktop with a i7 9700k and a RX 580
another desktop with a i5 4440 (haswell)
I could throw together another desktop with a ryzen 3 3200g
and last resort pulling out a phenom 965 black or a fx 8350, but no ty LOL

but no ty in my case if I wait it out its 30 secs... dunno why
considering this game is on my samsung 860 evo it will load up just fine
but theres no reason it needs to take 30 secs

I have my game on a wd black harddrive which is a mechanical hard drive and I don't have to wait 30 secs my loads up quickly. So I doubt this is a denuvo problem cause if it was it would effect everyone. It has to be something else.

[Arisu]

Originally posted by ↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect:

I have my game on a wd black harddrive which is a mechanical hard drive and I don't have to wait 30 secs my loads up quickly. So I doubt this is a denuvo problem cause if it was it would effect everyone. It has to be something else.

I noticed it loaded up normally this morning, no waiting or anything.
When that happened for me, the black screen, I think I had booted up the game a few times during the day. This is the only game that has ever done this, but truthfully speaking I'm fine with 30 secs waiting it's not the end of the world for me. I'm just genuinely curious why this is a thing.
My issue I get could be entirely different from the others, but I'm curious to know if the other people wait will anything eventually show up like it does for me?

[keeperofcastlegreydusk]

Oh dear. I was so sure the solution listed above by Tails would work for me. I didn't get around to trying it until today, but... it did not.

I should state again for the record that my error is seemingly not the same, as the error others have had.

Why would more than one different kind of startup error happen to several different users, all at roughly the same time of this year? Maybe the bigger issue for me is that I don't even get an error message, just failure. Whatever's going on, it does not compute for me.

And now neither does Sonic Origins.

Should I test my entire Steam Library, to see if any other game doesn't load as well?

<EDIT1> Well, I've tried to load every game in my Library up to the beginning of the letter S. So far, not a single game has failed to load, and each one allowed me to do something in it, but I am not sure if this is telling me anything useful.

<EDIT2> All games in my Library tested to see if they would boot up, all of them do except Sonic Origins. So the only thing I can infer is that, whatever software or hardware issue I'm having now, it only stops Sonic Origins from booting.

I'm gonna leave it at that for now, that's all the info I have and there's other things I could be doing instead. :o

THANKS SEGA, WE REALLY LIKE WHAT YOU'VE DONE, WITH THE CLASSICS FROM YOUR MASCOT SERIES. That is, I would be liking it, IF I COULD PLAY THE DAMN GAME, YOU DOPEFISHES. <smh>

[keeperofcastlegreydusk]

Okay okay, after days and days of nothing going right, I got Origins to boot again. Turns out my problem with the game being unbootable was the fault of... wait for it... an update to Hedgemod Manager that I did manually. I don't know what the hell the update did to cause the problem, it wasn't stopping me from opening the modloader itself to change its settings. I found no mention at all about the problem anywhere else on the Internet. But by process of elimination, I found that it had to be the cause.

I did a fresh install, after deleting the folders that Origins was installed in, as well as the folders where the savefiles were kept. In a previous reinstall attempt, I did not delete the leftover folders, and so the problem persisted. But since the folder containing the executable was also where Hedgemod was installed, deleting that folder fixed the problem.

I don't even know why I'm bothering to post this, because everybody else stopped caring days ago. Oh wait, yes I do. To anyone who looks at this post in the future... It's okay, you don't have to comment here to try and help me, it's fixed. Somebody else might need help in the future though, and if it's a Hedgemod Manager problem, gamebanana.com may well be the better place to go. Even though there's no mention of the latest version making Origins unbootable. <SIGH>

Now I just have to figure out if I can still use SOMETHING, to fix the horrible music issues SEGA left in this game package. Thanks again OP, for chiming in with the solution you found. I appreciate it...

[JoviPrimal999]

Why doesnt my sonic origins work i tryed doing everything and nothing not even a black screen i deleted it and reDownload it and nothing it wont work i kinda need help for this i need a solution.

[MassaJoe]

Mine doesn’t work, every single game I’ve ever played on Steam is fine.

I’ve never had any mod manager stuff installed

SEGA were emailing loads of things to try and also send them - nothing, and just ignored

I got gifted the game so can’t even refund it, my only option is to hide it from my small collection of games, I’ve never known anything like it… it’s a sonic game…..