PD2 Crashes "Press any key". - Solved!

[Kirk]

Hello fellow heisters!

My problem started out like this.

When playing PD2 on a laggy host, game crashes to desktop. As i have set PD2 as high prio download, update 64.1 is allready being installed. Everything seams fine to this point.

Restarting PayDay 2 after update and installation is done...
Now the problems start.

After patch 64.1 Pay Day 2 crashes for me at "Press any key". Just Before entering menus.

Just before BBQ movie start, there is a fast flash that in a way looks like a pay out screen. Not sure if it should be that way.

I have no mods installed.

Ofcourse i have allready tried:
Verifying Game Files.
Connection with Steam is OK.
All drivers are up to date, as all windows updates.
Tried with both VCredist 2013, and later 2008.
Reinstalling the game completly.
CHKDSK/r, turn out OK.
Defragmented all HDDs.
Tried different versions of DirectX.
Disabled steam overlay and steam cloud.
I have tried to find a crashlog, but none is produced.
All i manage to get is a hint that it may be related to C++.

This situation feels odd. I have bought all DLCs and now i cant even play this.

I have also tried installing the game on my laptop, wich never have had the game installed before. resulting in exactly same kind of crash.

2015-03-28 i vrote a mail to Overkill about my issue, and as i vrite this no response yet.

Now im forced to bother you with helping me out.

Edit: I have now tried to disable all DLCs, but same problem persists.

[PAT]

Hi,

Looks like you have already tried a lot of things. It's especially weird that the game also crashes on your laptop, one would think that the crash is caused by some other software or hardware that runs on both your systems.
Maybe some peripheral is causing it, like a mouse, headset or storage device that you use on both systems? Or maybe a firewall is blocking the game? Which firewall are you using, if any?
Try to disconnect as many peripherals and close as many programs as possible before starting Payday 2, just to check if something is interfering.

Also, have you checked both your Payday 2 game folder and your Appdata folder for crashlogs?

Default locations:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\PAYDAY 2
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\PAYDAY 2

[Kirk]

I found the sollution! I can hardly believe it after all these hours. Here is what i did:

1. Disable all DLCs
2. Restart Steam in offline mode.
3.Find your Steam folder and then navigate. In my case D:\Steam\userdata\1319562\218620\remote.
4. Make a new folder "Backup" or whatever you like.
5. Move all but "save000.sav" to the folder you just created.
6. Start PD2, with Steam still in offline mode.
7. at startup, have steam restore your save.
8. wait until the game started.
9. Now you are frre to close PD2 and restart Steam in Online mode.
10. Enable DLCs.
11. Enjoy!

[PAT]

Very nice!

It seems like one of the updates corrupted your local save-game.

I am glad you got it working again, well done!

[Kirk]

Thanks!
I started to think it might be that way, because of same kind of crash on my laptop.
Also the specs on the laptop are within recommendations. Hopefully i might help someone with this sollution.

[alik]

Thanks MAN !!!

[Kirk]

You are welcome :)

[HR Joe]

Same problem but when I look for the 1319562 folder isn't there for me.

[Rokk]

Originally posted by The Real Russian:

Same problem but when I look for the 1319562 folder isn't there for me.

There should be some other folder with your own Steam ID, it's Steam ID dependent.

You should make your own thread and post your crash.txt, instead of resurrecting old threads.

[HitKill# eu não morri]

face even heartfelt thanks you helped a lot love you :)

[Atomic Waste]

Originally posted by HitKill #he's back:

face even heartfelt thanks you helped a lot love you :)

Please don´t necro old threads and just create a new one instead.

I´ll lock this one now, so it can rest in peace.