Unable to open game

[CutePumpkiin]

Is anyone about to open the game? it just refuses to open for me and i have no clue why

[Will]

crashes on shader compilation

[CutePumpkiin]

I have no shaders, I can't even open the game. Theres no error message, no black screen, it just refuses to open

[Fear dot Com]

Have you checked the antivirus? I had to take it out of quarantine (I use Avast) and verifying the files got the game booting up.

[CutePumpkiin]

I haven't got Avast, I've just got windows security and I've tried looking around in it but I;ve checked my quarantine and theres nothing in it. I'm uninstalling it and reinstalling it to see if it does anything (I doubt it will though tbh)

[Stumpy]

Originally posted by CutePumpkiin:

Is anyone about to open the game? it just refuses to open for me and i have no clue why

Im unable to finish the game ! Join the queue mate

[CutePumpkiin]

I got worried I wasn't the only one, but I'm also sad you've got it too

[master thief]

Originally posted by Will:

crashes on shader compilation

The same here

[C r y s t a l P e p s i]

for the ones saying that it crashes during shader compilation, it is something they added in the latest patch, that stresses further the CPU during this stage or around those lines, if you turn off overclocks/enhancements it might complete the shader building stage

in my case it was a non definitive solution, worked just a few times, so I reinstalled the base version of the game where this issue is not happening, I think we should escalate this problem to bloober somehow, but I don't have a clue which channels they offer for this sort of problems

[master thief]

Originally posted by C r y s t a l P e p s i:

for the ones saying that it crashes during shader compilation, it is something they added in the latest patch, that stresses further the CPU during this stage or around those lines, if you turn off overclocks/enhancements it might complete the shader building stage

How do you do that?

[C r y s t a l P e p s i]

Originally posted by master thief:

Originally posted by C r y s t a l P e p s i:

for the ones saying that it crashes during shader compilation, it is something they added in the latest patch, that stresses further the CPU during this stage or around those lines, if you turn off overclocks/enhancements it might complete the shader building stage

How do you do that?

This good fellow explains it in a nutshell:

Originally posted by XΞИOΛLIΞИ:

1) Press Win + R
2) Type "steam://open/console" (with no quotes) and press enter
3) In the console input "download_depot 2124490 2124491 2696526119968453238" (no quotes) and press enter

This will download the previous version of the game, and when it is done the console will give you the file directory location of the files.

4) Now overwrite your Silent Hill 2 game files with the downloaded files

[master thief]

Thank you very much, I'll try that. But what about saves?

[C r y s t a l P e p s i]

Originally posted by master thief:

Thank you very much, I'll try that. But what about saves?

They are stored locallyin your PC, in your AppData local folder, make a backup for safety, they were kept in my case and worked without problems

[master thief]

Oh ok so kind of you

[MestreJp]

disable overlays works for me.
overlays Steam, Nvidia, afterburner...
crash shader compilation fix