[ FIXED] Dragon's Dogma 2 Won't Launch After 83 Hours - Tried Everything!

[Chaosruler21]

Hi everyone,

I'm having a frustrating issue with Dragon's Dogma 2. I've sunk 83 hours into the game already, but for the past 4 days, whenever I launch it, it just runs in the background according to Steam. No window shows up for the game itself. In Task Manager, it shows as running.

To troubleshoot, I've tried verifying files, reinstalling the game, clearing the download cache, and even reinstalling my AMD software (using a Radeon RX 6600). My system specs are Windows 11, AMD Ryzen 5600x CPU, and 48 GB of RAM.

I've also tried restarting my PC and running Steam as administrator, but no luck.

Has anyone else encountered this issue? Any suggestions on what else I can try to get the game working again?

Thanks in advance!

Edit: The issue came down to the config file in my folder. The second I deleted it and tried to run DD2. Ran with no issues. Guess you learn something everyday. Or at least delete the config file and see what happens.

[Дядя ♂️Bobby♂]

It's funny, but I also played 89 hours without any problems, but after that the game started constantly crashing during gameplay. I spent another 3 hours in the game trying to solve the problem, but it didn’t work out and now I’m putting it off until the next patch

[Grr. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah]

Originally posted by Chaosruler21:

Windows 11,

Found your problem.

[Ashfell]

i had a similar issue played 30 hrs then the game crashed on me and now im no longer able to play the game when i launch it i get a capcom error report and it crashes

[Chaosruler21]

Originally posted by Grr. SG CMD Majah Lazah:

Originally posted by Chaosruler21:

Windows 11,

Found your problem.

I would say that was the issue. But makes no sense I have 89 hours in. 2 hours maybe. Just going to play something else. Who's been play No Rest for the Wicked?

[Grr. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah]

Originally posted by Chaosruler21:

Originally posted by Grr. SG CMD Majah Lazah:

Found your problem.

I would say that was the issue. But makes no sense I have 89 hours in. 2 hours maybe. Just going to play something else. Who's been play No Rest for the Wicked?

Cool story except that's LITERALLY your problem. The security update broke like 20 games.

[Chaosruler21]

Originally posted by Grr. SG CMD Majah Lazah:

Originally posted by Chaosruler21:

I would say that was the issue. But makes no sense I have 89 hours in. 2 hours maybe. Just going to play something else. Who's been play No Rest for the Wicked?

Cool story except that's LITERALLY your problem. The security update broke like 20 games.

Thanks for letting me know about the update breaking games! That's definitely frustrating. Windows 11 with Steam can be a bit of an adventure sometimes, huh? At least now I know what might be causing the issue. Have you seen any workarounds for the affected games?

[Grr. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah]

I have not, and it's pretty likely the M$ will be the one needing to make exceptions.

[Chaosruler21]

Originally posted by Grr. SG CMD Majah Lazah:

I have not, and it's pretty likely the M$ will be the one needing to make exceptions.

The issue came down to the config file in my folder. The second I deleted it and tried to run DD2. Ran with no issues. Guess you learn something everyday. Or at least delete the config file and see what happens.

[Asphe]

Originally posted by Chaosruler21:

Thanks for letting me know about the update breaking games! That's definitely frustrating. Windows 11 with Steam can be a bit of an adventure sometimes, huh? At least now I know what might be causing the issue. Have you seen any workarounds for the affected games?

I restored all the Win11 machines back to Win10 H2. Seriously if my side can't get any meaningful help from corporate level support from M$....

Hopefully by the time I'm forced to use Win11, they'll have fixed it (or maybe the Win dev team gets laid off and have to find work making Cybertrucks. At last, the bell has tolled on this windev team. At least, those escaped monkeys from the zoo can fix Win11)

If you actually installed from Win11 media though, you're SOL. Only works if the original install was Win10. Anyone else miss Win7?