Launcher.exe has stopped working?

[BenArt86]

I asked steam to verify the files, didn't help. i have re installed the program twice and now im out of ideas and not happy. can any one help? the power to our house ran out whilst i was in the game, i booted the pc back up and now it wont play at all for me.

[Anonymous]

Yeah happends to me all the time aswell, Be sure to save your game after every completed mission part.

[BenArt86]

Can it be fixed? i wouldn't mind playing the game again at some point. lol. :)

[Anonymous]

Wow man :/ that sucks indeed, Did u install/re-install it? maybe try some start up option in the properties section.

[a Modest Mouse]

Happening to me now. Dec 24 2013.
Trying to fix it but haven't found anything helpful. Reinstalled the game and nothing changed. Still a "Launcher.exe not working" problem.

[BenArt86]

i gave up. i own the original so i will stick with that for now. this happened to me with the organ trail... i left the devs to sort things out and went back a few months later and all was well. im sure things will get sorted out.

[KowKiller]

I have this problem too. The Launcher stopped working some days ago, just after I started the saturday day. It was working before. Tried to verify game files and to uninstalla and reinstall.

I figured out that if I launch the game directly from the postal2.exe in the "Steam\steamapps\common\POSTAL2Complete\System" folder it still works. But it would be nice having the launcher working again.


This is the Launcher.log file. Maybe if some dev reads this forum it can understand something more with this.

2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Debug: Log opened successfully
2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Debug: Detected OS: Windows
2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Debug: Initializing game tab
2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Debug: Loading Launcher.ini
2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Debug: Loading POSTAL 2 INI files
2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Debug: Module settings successfully loaded from "Postal2.ini" for row 0
2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Debug: Module settings successfully loaded from "User.ini" for row 0
2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Debug: Module settings successfully loaded from "MultiAnnouncerInfo.int" for row 0
2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Debug: Loading Share the Pain INI files
2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Debug: Module settings successfully loaded from "../ShareThePain/System/Postal2MP.ini" for row 1
2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Debug: Module settings successfully loaded from "../ShareThePain/System/User.ini" for row 1
2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Debug: Module settings successfully loaded from "../ShareThePain/System/MultiAnnouncerInfo.int" for row 1
2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Debug: POSTAL 2 and Share the Pain INI files successfully read, enabling widgets
2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Debug: Initializing gameplay tab for row 0
2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Debug: Initializing video tab for row 0
2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Debug: Detected render device with combo box index of -1
2014-06-01 13:31:44 - Warning: Invalid render device detected. Forcing default options.

[SamSerious]

Ive had this. It failed to detect the default render device Direct3D or OpenGL (as it says at the end). I dont exactly still remember what i did to fix it but, try to delete postal2.ini .

If it doesnt works then open postal2.ini and at the beginning you will see [Engine.Engine].

At the end of this category add : RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice

[KowKiller]

That didn't work but thanks anyway!

[Doctorbleed]

Happy to know I'm not the only one having this problem. Still incredibly frustrating. I tried to download the game on another computer and after I played it crashed. Then all hell broke loose. Running With Scissors please fix this. I don't want to have to reenact Postal 2's violent scenes in real life out of boredom. My skin is very fair and my arms are shrimpy so carrying heavy weapons is difficult for me.

[Doctorbleed]

Okay guys I found a little fix for this problem. It ain't perfect but it helps: Open up Launcher.ini from the game's system folder and change "Order=0" under "Postal2" to "Order=1" then under "ShareThePain" change "Order=1" to "Order=0" This should solve the problem. Now if only I could get Eternal Damnation to work.

[KowKiller]

Originally posted by Doctorbleed:

Okay guys I found a little fix for this problem. It ain't perfect but it helps: Open up Launcher.ini from the game's system folder and change "Order=0" under "Postal2" to "Order=1" then under "ShareThePain" change "Order=1" to "Order=0" This should solve the problem. Now if only I could get Eternal Damnation to work.

It worked! Thanks!