game will not launch

[Arkada64]

finally got the game downloaded after waiting all day and what happens is it say running, syncing then nothing. seriously just installed the game and it won't launch

[Insônia]

Pc Spec? AV? Restart computer?
Event Log and dcs log?

[PoppaCapnurass]

I'm sure you would have checked that your PC is up to the game. What's you system specs? Got the latest drivers and Direct X etc?

I've had similar issues before and it can come down to windows or another program interfering.

[Arkada64]

Originally posted by PoppaCapnurass:

I'm sure you would have checked that your PC is up to the game. What's you system specs? Got the latest drivers and Direct X etc?

I've had similar issues before and it can come down to windows or another program interfering.

AMD ryzen 5 1400 quad core processor, 8 GB ram [don't remind me i need more i know] AMD radeon RX 570

[Arkada64]

Originally posted by Insônia:

Pc Spec? AV? Restart computer?
Event Log and dcs log?

where would my log be located?

[Highstriker]

That syncing part is odd. is that a Steam message like before the game launches? Steam cloud syncing is known to hang games on their first launches so I double checked to see if DCS has it, and no. But is that syncing message a steam message? I don't want to lead you down tiring twisty roads, so let me know about that one first.

Antivirus can get in the way. What comes up? The DCS logo? a black screen? or nothing?

[Highstriker]

Okay, I can assume it says syncing in your library of games.

Go to Steam (at top-left of this window) then settings. Go to Cloud and uncheck 'Enable Steam Cloud synchronization for applications which support it' Click OK. (this is truly just temporary just to get it over the problem. This could be a way of validating DLC's. If steam closes abruptly you often have to re validate your DLC. like I said, could be related.)
Restart steam just for good measure.

Go to DCS in your library, Right click on DCS, choose properties. Then choose local files. Then choose 'Verify integrity of game files' DirectX may have not installed correctly. Do both of these, and hopefully it should work.

[Arkada64]

Originally posted by Highstriker:

That syncing part is odd. is that a Steam message like before the game launches? Steam cloud syncing is known to hang games on their first launches so I double checked to see if DCS has it, and no. But is that syncing message a steam message? I don't want to lead you down tiring twisty roads, so let me know about that one first.

Antivirus can get in the way. What comes up? The DCS logo? a black screen? or nothing?

nothing comes up. the syncing part comes up where it says "running" after it closes it does the sync that every game does when closed. the problem is that nothing ever pops up it just abruptly closes.

[Highstriker]

Okay, try this:
go to Steamapps/common/dcsworld, right-click Run.exe and Run as administrator.
Alternatively, go to your Steam library and right click on it, and try "Play Game" some said they had luck with that.

Try running windows update.

Lastly, it's almost 3 in the morning, and can't go into how to install the visual studio packages you should have. If many of your other games run, it shouldn't be a problem,,,

check in your add or remove programs and make sure Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 AND 2013 Redistributable (x64) and (x86) are installed - 4 entries. They should be. There have been a few windows updates that improved these.

[Arkada64]

Originally posted by Highstriker:

Okay, try this:
go to Steamapps/common/dcsworld, right-click Run.exe and Run as administrator.
Alternatively, go to your Steam library and right click on it, and try "Play Game" some said they had luck with that.

Try running windows update.

Lastly, it's almost 3 in the morning, and can't go into how to install the visual studio packages you should have. If many of your other games run, it shouldn't be a problem,,,

check in your add or remove programs and make sure Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 AND 2013 Redistributable (x64) and (x86) are installed - 4 entries. They should be. There have been a few windows updates that improved these.

did all this and more and it still won't work. at this point i've installed the game 3 times and restarted my pc several times and it's just not worth it. about to uninstall and leave a bad review if this game does not work soon

[Arkada64]

Originally posted by Highstriker:

Okay, try this:
go to Steamapps/common/dcsworld, right-click Run.exe and Run as administrator.
Alternatively, go to your Steam library and right click on it, and try "Play Game" some said they had luck with that.

Try running windows update.

Lastly, it's almost 3 in the morning, and can't go into how to install the visual studio packages you should have. If many of your other games run, it shouldn't be a problem,,,

check in your add or remove programs and make sure Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 AND 2013 Redistributable (x64) and (x86) are installed - 4 entries. They should be. There have been a few windows updates that improved these.

i can't even get far enough into the game to generate a crash log as it says running for only a second and then closes

[Highstriker]

Well I thought one of those would work.
You might want to reinstall Physx. I know I'll get blasted for this saying DCS doesn't use Physx... But this is one of those things (from what I read) that nobody is really clear on. And zero clear after 2.5. (again just from what I've read)
I spent a couple hours looking at others' crash logs last night and there is a lot of Phys* entries as the game loads. I know you have a Radeon, but some Physx can be done on CPU, and may require the tools to be at the very least verified as being present.

After it is reinstalled, the only other thing I can think of without a complete look at every possible problem, is create a new user account in Windows after reinstalling Physx, run steam and see if it works there.

Other typical things I've read is overclocking. and closing Afterburner, antivirus, Background programs... Even innocuous ones like Skype.

[Arkada64]

Originally posted by Highstriker:

Well I thought one of those would work.
You might want to reinstall Physx. I know I'll get blasted for this saying DCS doesn't use Physx... But this is one of those things (from what I read) that nobody is really clear on. And zero clear after 2.5. (again just from what I've read)
I spent a couple hours looking at others' crash logs last night and there is a lot of Phys* entries as the game loads. I know you have a Radeon, but some Physx can be done on CPU, and may require the tools to be at the very least verified as being present.

After it is reinstalled, the only other thing I can think of without a complete look at every possible problem, is create a new user account in Windows after reinstalling Physx, run steam and see if it works there.

Other typical things I've read is overclocking. and closing Afterburner, antivirus, Background programs... Even innocuous ones like Skype.

it works on another user but not on mine. how can i get it working on mine?

[Highstriker]

This is one part where Windows 10 is really tough. Let's make a checklist:

- You may have antivirus that is running specifically for current user preventing. Even disabling it may not allow the program to run, it has to be managed or uninstalled (use judgement)
- Think back to any core changes you may have made on this user. (if it's honestly not much, that can be a good thing.)
- Running the new user probably stopped a lot of Startup programs this user has. In task manager close all non essentials. Don't close any Steamwebhelper type stuff, svchosts, just major headers like Spotify, and other stuff, all third party stuff, all overlay stuff.
- Are you running anything like Hamachi or proxy servers? (that can kill some games from starting) or any other gaming type connections? Check your networks. Disable any except your real network.
- don't get overzealous and uninstall anything.
- After closing all non essentials, every single one, restart steam.

I want to sound hopeful, what's preventing it may be in minutiae of things I've never seen or used it's up to you to try and get this user down to a super default level. It often works though.

If you do all of those things, and it still won't launch, it's very telling, could be bad registry entries, group policy setting problems corrupted steam profile. not sure :/ It may not be that bad to just move over to a new user. But if anyone else wants to chime in advice for this stage, would be cool.

[Demo]

same issue here. keeps preparing to launch then closes. preparing to launch then closes. several times till i cancel the process

[LOWnSLO]

I had same problem, DCS Steam would not launch on Windows 10 (other Steam games run no problems). When I attempted to run DCS as administrator as suggested above I got error messages stating Missing VCRUNTIME140.DLL and MVCR110.DLL. To fix this I went to Control Panel / Programs and Features. Look for the Microsoft Visual C++ files. For each of the 2013 and 2015-2019 versions of MS Visual C++ (4 files in all) right click the file name, select Change, and then select Repair. Reboot the computer. After doing this DCS launched normally.
Hope this helps someone.