Game will not launch

[graemebrett.houston]

press Play on Steam and Blades of Time does not launch.

Windows 10
Nvidia RTX 3060
AMD ThreadRipper
48GB Ram

any ideas?

[Astara]

Try Windows 7? It should run on win10, but have heard of so many compat problems depending on which of the 100 win10's you have installed, MS didn't shut out WinXP that fast, but boy, are they going after Win7... have you tried seeing when it dies using sysinternals procmon (it's a MS prog).

[Aylia]

do you get any type of message or error when trying to launch?

Im running on windows 10 without issues,
my current Os Build : Windows 10 - Vers 21H1 -

[graemebrett.houston]

sysinternals procmon is a bit advanced for me and regarding failure to launch well basically it just does not start (so fast i cannot even see it in task manager) or and the gog version is the same!

[graemebrett.houston]

got to laugh as i over 1000 steam games, all installed on my system, i am going through them all to see what runs and what does not, and it is games that are say 10 year old that seems to have the most issues, brand new games no problem and really old games no problems, just wise all games were written to OpenGL.

[SnoochGamingTTV]

did anybody figure this out yet maybe you op? I just bought game

[graemebrett.houston]

Hi SilentBobNooch i have not but after haveing fun with Deux Ex Human Mankind and figuring out it has issues with more than 16 CPU cores! and taking crap from UbiSoft and Assassins Creed Synidicate not lauching on my Threadripper Windows VM with 40 CPu threads ( 20 CPU) and after lauching a VM with only 4 or 8 cpu cores and that game running i suspect it will be down to having far too many cpu cores in my windows VM ( oh god help me if windows actually ran on bare metal!!!!) so will need ot lauch steam in that VM and see what happens at some point.

[SnoochGamingTTV]

Originally posted by graemebrett.houston:

Hi SilentBobNooch i have not but after haveing fun with Deux Ex Human Mankind and figuring out it has issues with more than 16 CPU cores! and taking crap from UbiSoft and Assassins Creed Synidicate not lauching on my Threadripper Windows VM with 40 CPu threads ( 20 CPU) and after lauching a VM with only 4 or 8 cpu cores and that game running i suspect it will be down to having far too many cpu cores in my windows VM ( oh god help me if windows actually ran on bare metal!!!!) so will need ot lauch steam in that VM and see what happens at some point.

oh ok this cheks out considering I have a 16 core ryzen cpu as well haha thanks for the insight

[Drasiel]

Any solutions to this? Game won't launch for me either. Looks like it tries to start then just immediately crashes with no info.

win 10 64bit pro
amd ryzen 9 5960x 3.40GHz
32 GB ram
NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3080 Ti

[SnoochGamingTTV]

Originally posted by Drasiel:

Any solutions to this? Game won't launch for me either. Looks like it tries to start then just immediately crashes with no info.

win 10 64bit pro
amd ryzen 9 5960x 3.40GHz
32 GB ram
NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3080 Ti

yes actually!! I JUST FIGURED OUT THE FIX! so what you are gonna want to do is this...you will have to disable all of your cpu cores EXCEPT FOR 6 OF THEM ONLY (this is how you do that!)

type in the windows search "run" once you do that, click on run and type "msconfig" then hit ENTER....

select Boot tab
then advanced options

"check the box next to number of processors and select the number of cores (which will be 6 )" then select ok, and apply and restart pc and boom when you boot back up you will be able to play the game easy. took me forever to figure out HAPPY GAMING!

[Astara]

Wow...MS is really putting the heat on higher end machines. Saw in an ATT forum about how Win11's readiness program shows any PC with more than 4 Cores as not being ready for Win11.

Also, if you check their webstore, you can't buy any home edition (even Professional) that allows more than 4 CPU's. With their newer versions of Office, they charge more if you want to run Office with more than 4 Cores. Same progams, but if you have a machine w/more than 4 Cores they charge you more to run the same programs.


I think it is to stop end users from buying >4 core machines so they can more easily sell the idea of 4 cores as a "standard"...really evil to disable user machines with more power.

[graemebrett.houston]

MS are just at it with there license agreements! IBM are just as bad with there Mainframes also Oracle, this is why Linux is good, no restrictions via license on your hardware. They think if you have a more powerful machine you have more money! that is not how things work

[qeu]

Originally posted by SilentBobNooch:

Originally posted by Drasiel:

Any solutions to this? Game won't launch for me either. Looks like it tries to start then just immediately crashes with no info.

win 10 64bit pro
amd ryzen 9 5960x 3.40GHz
32 GB ram
NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3080 Ti

yes actually!! I JUST FIGURED OUT THE FIX! so what you are gonna want to do is this...you will have to disable all of your cpu cores EXCEPT FOR 6 OF THEM ONLY (this is how you do that!)

type in the windows search "run" once you do that, click on run and type "msconfig" then hit ENTER....

select Boot tab
then advanced options

"check the box next to number of processors and select the number of cores (which will be 6 )" then select ok, and apply and restart pc and boom when you boot back up you will be able to play the game easy. took me forever to figure out HAPPY GAMING!

I was also trying to figure this out and the solution I came up with was to set the core affinity for the game to 31 threads (i'm running a r9 5950x). That seems like a better solution than reducing the number of active cores in windows.

I created a batch file (e.g. run.bat) in the same folder as the game exe with the content

call cmd.exe /c start "" /Affinity EFFFFFFF ".\bladesoftime.exe"

This will start the game with the core affinity set to use only the first 31 threads of the CPU and allowed the game to start.

[SnoochGamingTTV]

Originally posted by qeu:

Originally posted by SilentBobNooch:

yes actually!! I JUST FIGURED OUT THE FIX! so what you are gonna want to do is this...you will have to disable all of your cpu cores EXCEPT FOR 6 OF THEM ONLY (this is how you do that!)

type in the windows search "run" once you do that, click on run and type "msconfig" then hit ENTER....

select Boot tab
then advanced options

"check the box next to number of processors and select the number of cores (which will be 6 )" then select ok, and apply and restart pc and boom when you boot back up you will be able to play the game easy. took me forever to figure out HAPPY GAMING!

I was also trying to figure this out and the solution I came up with was to set the core affinity for the game to 31 threads (i'm running a r9 5950x). That seems like a better solution than reducing the number of active cores in windows.

I created a batch file (e.g. run.bat) in the same folder as the game exe with the content

call cmd.exe /c start "" /Affinity EFFFFFFF ".\bladesoftime.exe"

This will start the game with the core affinity set to use only the first 31 threads of the CPU and allowed the game to start.

oh nice even better then I'm glad we figured out how to finally start the dang game after all this time lol

[Astara]

I can't believe how MS's endless craving for more money affects old games that were just 'fun' And able to use it for 'rehab' from a stroke a few months ago....*sigh*..

[graemebrett.houston]

What gets me is i have games that will not launch on my Thread-ripper ( too many cpu ) as confirmed as i have a ryzen of same generation but less cpu cores, i have games that will not lauch on a ryzen with 6 cores ( 12 threads) but lauch on the Threadripper ( that is down to the 4K tv by the looks of things) is it soo difficult to have games be future compatible or modern syustems backwards compatible or is that only a mainframe thing ( which by the way is nonsenese as mainframe actually have nonsense with backwards compatibility these days)