Game Won't Launch

[TheSiameseDreamer]

All of a sudden, my game won't launch... anyone have this issue at all?

[FlyMcKing]

Yup same here

[TheSiameseDreamer]

All my other games launch. I was playing TLOU last night. Working amazingly well. Now, today, it just fails to launch. Even my desktop shortcut is acting strangely

[ya_boy_goku]

+1 after update inf black screen after coin

[sleep debt]

BEFORE YOU UNINSTALL. DELETE EVERY SINGLE FILE LAST OF US FILE FROM YOUR COMPUTER. GO TO THE LAST OF US GAME ON STEAM-PROPERTIES- BROWSE LOCAL FILES. THEN DELETE THAT ENTIRE FOLDER. THEN, GO TO STEAM, UNINSTALL THE GAME, REINSTALL THE GAME ON A SEPARATE SSD. You can try reinstalling on the same SSD, but this worked for me. I had the issue of the game not launching ever since I bought it. I really hope this helps! please let me know if it does.

[TheSiameseDreamer]

Originally posted by DEADNSYDE:

BEFORE YOU UNINSTALL. DELETE EVERY SINGLE FILE LAST OF US FILE FROM YOUR COMPUTER. GO TO THE LAST OF US GAME ON STEAM-PROPERTIES- BROWSE LOCAL FILES. THEN DELETE THAT ENTIRE FOLDER. THEN, GO TO STEAM, UNINSTALL THE GAME, REINSTALL THE GAME ON A SEPARATE SSD. You can try reinstalling on the same SSD, but this worked for me. I had the issue of the game not launching ever since I bought it. I really hope this helps! please let me know if it does.

I'll lose saved game progress?

[AmaiAmai]

Here is a real solution for you to try. I am a debugger of trash applications like this, so let me help you guys out and point you into the right direction.

Issues:

A. "Not enough RAM / Freeze of System upon running game / Constant Crashing / Game won't run, other crashing"

PROBLEM: This game is a complete piece of trash that cannot account for RAM and VRAM properly, in fact it can't count your RAM properly as it seems to use a simple method of checking RAM size. The game will check your amount of FREE RAM and VRAM and assume it stays free. The issue is that things in Windows load dynamically and you may have more or less RAM.

SOLUTION TO TRY:

1. Close the game and all running applications.
2. Got to "settings" -> "about PC" -> "advanced system settings" -> "performance" -> "Advanced" and check the page memory setting. Here click "change" and set it to your size of RAM. Set both values to the same value so that Windows does not change this value.

If you don't know, you can probably set both values 16384 -- this will take 16GB of space on your disk. REMEMBER BOTH VALUES SET TO THE SAME NUMBER.

Visual guide: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-change-virtual-memory-size-windows-10

Note: This may also fix other issues in future or other trashy console ports that keep assuming a PC's framebuffer is the size of the console (16GB). It may also work to let you play the game with less ram than 16GB because the game seems to only use an API call that computes free memory, virtual included.

B. Crashing, Freezing on AMD 6650 or other cards (Try this if A does not solve problem)

1. Download the AMD "Pro" drivers, these are not the latest Radeon drivers
2. Set desktop resolution to values and test, it will most likely run on 720P no matter what, but this is dependent on the card VRAM you have
3. When starting the game ignore the BS about having an outdated driver, the newer driver will cause your system to freeze because the game has a buggy memory allocation call
4. When you enter the game, you can adjust resolution there or play the game.

C. Other crashing

If on Windows 10, and you are crashing with a Ryzen CPU then one thing you can try is to disable VIRTUALIZATION in BIOS. I do NOT recommend doing this in Windows 11 because Windows 11 actually uses Virtualization for performance and virus protection.

Reason: the game does not seem to support virtual address mapping of hardware properly, causing incorrect mapping and calls to hardware with address ranges out of bounds (will lead to a system HALT [freeze your PC] eventually)

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Preliminary suggestions... More to come after investigating this trash heap further.

[TheSiameseDreamer]

I have a feeling something they changed on SteamDB caused this issue.

[AmaiAmai]

Video on test of system that wouldn't run it running it 2560x1080 after doing the above:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD4-lB-I278

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdFKuq5OGaw

[GamerGate Valkyrie]

Originally posted by AmaiAmai:

Here is a real solution for you to try. I am a debugger of trash applications like this, so let me help you guys out and point you into the right direction.

Issues:

A. "Not enough RAM / Freeze of System upon running game / Constant Crashing / Game won't run, other crashing"

PROBLEM: This game is a complete piece of trash that cannot account for RAM and VRAM properly, in fact it can't count your RAM properly as it seems to use a simple method of checking RAM size. The game will check your amount of FREE RAM and VRAM and assume it stays free. The issue is that things in Windows load dynamically and you may have more or less RAM.

SOLUTION TO TRY:

1. Close the game and all running applications.
2. Got to "settings" -> "about PC" -> "advanced system settings" -> "performance" -> "Advanced" and check the page memory setting. Here click "change" and set it to your size of RAM. Set both values to the same value so that Windows does not change this value.

If you don't know, you can probably set both values 16384 -- this will take 16GB of space on your disk. REMEMBER BOTH VALUES SET TO THE SAME NUMBER.

Visual guide: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-change-virtual-memory-size-windows-10

Note: This may also fix other issues in future or other trashy console ports that keep assuming a PC's framebuffer is the size of the console (16GB). It may also work to let you play the game with less ram than 16GB because the game seems to only use an API call that computes free memory, virtual included.

B. Crashing, Freezing on AMD 6650 or other cards (Try this if A does not solve problem)

1. Download the AMD "Pro" drivers, these are not the latest Radeon drivers
2. Set desktop resolution to values and test, it will most likely run on 720P no matter what, but this is dependent on the card VRAM you have
3. When starting the game ignore the BS about having an outdated driver, the newer driver will cause your system to freeze because the game has a buggy memory allocation call
4. When you enter the game, you can adjust resolution there or play the game.

C. Other crashing

If on Windows 10, and you are crashing with a Ryzen CPU then one thing you can try is to disable VIRTUALIZATION in BIOS. I do NOT recommend doing this in Windows 11 because Windows 11 actually uses Virtualization for performance and virus protection.

Reason: the game does not seem to support virtual address mapping of hardware properly, causing incorrect mapping and calls to hardware with address ranges out of bounds (will lead to a system HALT [freeze your PC] eventually)

---

Preliminary suggestions... More to come after investigating this trash heap further.

+1

[PRiiXX]

I just had the same issue. What fixed it for me was to reset Steam's download cache and try to launch the game. It then downloaded a few KB's of Steamworks shared files but still no luck - game wouldn't open. So I completely closed Steam, opened it again and launched TLOU. Steam then initiated a download of about 450 MB Steamworks shared files - after it completed, my game launched just fine!

Took me an hour or so to figure this out as all other games ran without problems.

Event viewer showed me this exception code when TLOU wouldn't want to launch: 0xc0000005 so my solution may or may not work for you. I tried moving the game, re-verifying, and uninstalling. Also installed the latest vcredist package from Microsoft but none of this actually fixed it.

[TheSiameseDreamer]

Thanks, I tried the cache trick a few days ago. Sadly, no luck.

[PRiiXX]

Originally posted by joewillburn:

Thanks, I tried the cache trick a few days ago. Sadly, no luck.

Do you by any chance use any programs like Process Lasso?

[TheSiameseDreamer]

Originally posted by CIA Agent:

Originally posted by joewillburn:

Thanks, I tried the cache trick a few days ago. Sadly, no luck.

Do you by any chance use any programs like Process Lasso?

Nope

[_APA [~sudo]]

Originally posted by joewillburn:

All of a sudden, my game won't launch... anyone have this issue at all?

uninstall - reinstall

[TheSiameseDreamer]

Originally posted by APA.minds _REDUX:

Originally posted by joewillburn:

All of a sudden, my game won't launch... anyone have this issue at all?

uninstall - reinstall

Did that.... doesn't help.