Fs25 Won't Launch Pc

[peter2482]

Hi,
Installed the game, but it won't launch, just says launching them goes back to play, no errors shown.
Have googled and tried suggested fixes, I don't have any logs to check,
I only have an updater folder in the my games/fs25 folder.

Any ideas?
Thanks

[JasonX]

Origineel geplaatst door peter2482:

Origineel geplaatst door JasonX:

There is your Problem:

Couldn't read C:/Users/Bryan/Documents/My Games/FarmingSimulator2025/updater/5f5029230178adcd0f8d0e851397a3d0/branch.xml.

Did you check if the xml and the path exist? If it is maybe a permission issue.

The folder is there, but there isn't a file called branch.xml inside,
Not even with show hidden files.

Do you have the game on a different drive than your systemdrive?
If yes, others having that problem fixed it by moving the game to the system drive.

[✪ ҽɳȥσ™]

Origineel geplaatst door JasonX:

Origineel geplaatst door peter2482:

The folder is there, but there isn't a file called branch.xml inside,
Not even with show hidden files.

Do you have the game on a different drive than your systemdrive?
If yes, others having that problem fixed it by moving the game to the system drive.

Did Not work for me ☹️

[VICTORIAN]

Origineel geplaatst door peter2482:

Does FS25 need a cpu that supports avx to run?

Yes. it is necessary, AVX 2
Is it funny? I laughed too when I saw this graphic for mobile phones.

[The Dad]

Origineel geplaatst door LongPath:

Origineel geplaatst door The Dad:

I have a similar issue as discussed here - game shows as starting/running only to return to the green "Run" button with no game running... it does credit me with a minute of play time though! I've tried all the folder deletes and fixes suggested here with no effect... also tried with firewall off...
two things are different:
1. I dont have a "shader_cache" folder, I have "jim_cache"
2. I have this in the log.txt file

" Physics System
Version: 6.3.7
Thread(s): 2
Audio System
Driver: SoftMixer WASAPI Stereo Headphones
Version: 2018.11
Frequency: 48000
Max. active sources: 256
Render System
Driver: Direct 3D 12
Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU 7.8GB
Revision: 161
Driver version: 32.0.15.6614
Driver version is up to date.
Hardware Feature Level : 12_1
DirectX 12 AgilitySDK : 610
Error: Failed to create swap chain"

I have
windows 11 Home 64bit (10.0 build 22631)
13th intel i7-13700H
16Gb RAM
NVIDIA RTX 4060
DirectX 12

Hey mate in NVIDIA Control panel after you add the two .exe files see if you can manually set it to use your RTX 4060 instead of the integrated GPU thats bundled with the CPU.

Should look something like this.

https://imgur.com/a/ynoKSP6

Appreciate the help mate, but unfortunately that had no impact - all still the same... could it be something to do with DirectX12? that seems to be where it's at in the log file when it "fails to create the swap chain" but I know so little about this kind of thing...

[lazarov27]

Origineel geplaatst door JasonX:

Origineel geplaatst door lazarov27:

Jason - please check you own updater log file before suggesting nonsense, will you?
That is ENTIRELY normal updater log - including the missing branch and both "not activated" products.

Think before you post. Exactly WHAT did i suggest? I Asked him, where he bought it and pointet the error with not being able to read the xml, to ask if it exists and to check if its a user rights problem.

You seem to have a comprehension issue.. did you check YOUR updater log for such an entry - or you just can't be bothered to do that?
What makes you think the file SHOULD be there - do YOU have such a file present??

Here's from MY updater log, and I don't have that file present either, I DO NOT have a problem with the game startup:

2024-11-15 14:08 0:0619fe44288e234c206490f6a5c9c3f5 Couldn't read F:/Documents/My Games/FarmingSimulator2025/updater/0619fe44288e234c206490f6a5c9c3f5/branch.xml.
2024-11-15 14:08 0:0619fe44288e234c206490f6a5c9c3f5 Loading available download servers.
2024-11-15 14:08 0:0619fe44288e234c206490f6a5c9c3f5 Check activation state for all products.
2024-11-15 14:08 0:0619fe44288e234c206490f6a5c9c3f5 Product CA034F4C not activated.
2024-11-15 14:08 0:0619fe44288e234c206490f6a5c9c3f5 Product A1E4BA1B not activated.
2024-11-15 14:08 0:0619fe44288e234c206490f6a5c9c3f5 Signature files updated and read successfully.
2024-11-15 14:08 0:0619fe44288e234c206490f6a5c9c3f5 Found nothing to update
2024-11-15 14:08 0:0619fe44288e234c206490f6a5c9c3f5 starting game...

[LongPath]

Origineel geplaatst door The Dad:

Appreciate the help mate, but unfortunately that had no impact - all still the same... could it be something to do with DirectX12? that seems to be where it's at in the log file when it "fails to create the swap chain" but I know so little about this kind of thing...

Best bet would be to reinstall direct x 12 could be something corrupted in the library.

edit: I had a look around online, swap chain seems to be related to screen resolution and antialiasing. If you look in your game directory in my documents, there is a game.xml file - if you open it with notepad you'll see a bunch of values. Try to manually enter your display resolution and enable vsync see if it changes anything. I'd still put it down to corrupt directx12 libraries/missing windows component (try update .NET framework too if possible).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE1wTLVpVRg

from 0 to 2:30, this guy explains whats going on.

[Rise]

this is ass, I am having the same issue here when it randomly corrupts

[The Dad]

Origineel geplaatst door LongPath:

Origineel geplaatst door The Dad:

Appreciate the help mate, but unfortunately that had no impact - all still the same... could it be something to do with DirectX12? that seems to be where it's at in the log file when it "fails to create the swap chain" but I know so little about this kind of thing...

Best bet would be to reinstall direct x 12 could be something corrupted in the library.

edit: I had a look around online, swap chain seems to be related to screen resolution and antialiasing. If you look in your game directory in my documents, there is a game.xml file - if you open it with notepad you'll see a bunch of values. Try to manually enter your display resolution and enable vsync see if it changes anything. I'd still put it down to corrupt directx12 libraries/missing windows component (try update .NET framework too if possible).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE1wTLVpVRg

from 0 to 2:30, this guy explains whats going on.

hey LongPath,

thanks for your help mate! this all certainly pointed me in the right direction... in the game.xml file, I changed the <fullscreenMode> from windowed_fullscreen to simply fullscreen and I made sure that the previousWidth and previousHeight settings matched my screen resolution exactly and it worked!! I'm not sure which one of those two did the trick (or both of them) but I'm farming again and I'm happy...

Thanks again for your efforts mate!

[LongPath]

Origineel geplaatst door The Dad:

Thanks again for your efforts mate!

No worries, enjoy farming =D

[joridiculous]

Origineel geplaatst door The Dad:

Origineel geplaatst door LongPath:

Best bet would be to reinstall direct x 12 could be something corrupted in the library.

edit: I had a look around online, swap chain seems to be related to screen resolution and antialiasing. If you look in your game directory in my documents, there is a game.xml file - if you open it with notepad you'll see a bunch of values. Try to manually enter your display resolution and enable vsync see if it changes anything. I'd still put it down to corrupt directx12 libraries/missing windows component (try update .NET framework too if possible).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE1wTLVpVRg

from 0 to 2:30, this guy explains whats going on.

hey LongPath,

thanks for your help mate! this all certainly pointed me in the right direction... in the game.xml file, I changed the <fullscreenMode> from windowed_fullscreen to simply fullscreen and I made sure that the previousWidth and previousHeight settings matched my screen resolution exactly and it worked!! I'm not sure which one of those two did the trick (or both of them) but I'm farming again and I'm happy...

Thanks again for your efforts mate!

Just a quick fyi: In DX 12 Fullscreen is "borderless" and it will (or should) match desktop settings. So what ever you have as screen resolution in the settings ("game.xml") doesn't matter. Not that it hurt having them match your screen though!
Like i play in 4K, and the game.xml have
<previousWidth>1280</previousWidth>
<previousHeight>720</previousHeight>

[LongPath]

Origineel geplaatst door joridiculous:

Just a quick fyi: In DX 12 Fullscreen is "borderless" and it will (or should) match desktop settings. So what ever you have as screen resolution in the settings ("game.xml") doesn't matter. Not that it hurt having them match your screen though!
Like i play in 4K, and the game.xml have
<previousWidth>1280</previousWidth>
<previousHeight>720</previousHeight> :lunar2019crylaughingpig:

Aye, actually I had a similar issue with Car Mechanic Simulator 2018, only runs in exclusive fullscreen. Didn't know about the swapchain component back then though.

[BigWhiteCat]

Origineel geplaatst door The Dad:

Origineel geplaatst door LongPath:

Best bet would be to reinstall direct x 12 could be something corrupted in the library.

edit: I had a look around online, swap chain seems to be related to screen resolution and antialiasing. If you look in your game directory in my documents, there is a game.xml file - if you open it with notepad you'll see a bunch of values. Try to manually enter your display resolution and enable vsync see if it changes anything. I'd still put it down to corrupt directx12 libraries/missing windows component (try update .NET framework too if possible).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE1wTLVpVRg

from 0 to 2:30, this guy explains whats going on.

hey LongPath,

thanks for your help mate! this all certainly pointed me in the right direction... in the game.xml file, I changed the <fullscreenMode> from windowed_fullscreen to simply fullscreen and I made sure that the previousWidth and previousHeight settings matched my screen resolution exactly and it worked!! I'm not sure which one of those two did the trick (or both of them) but I'm farming again and I'm happy...

Thanks again for your efforts mate!

I set "fullscreen" and 1920x1080 and now blank white screen appears on 1 second full screen instead of 0 pix, but game still don't launch. Have i5-7640x, RTX 3060ti win 10 and dx 12 with latest drivers

[luke.green.11]

Origineel geplaatst door Anna K. Wow:

My OS and DirectX versions are fine, it meet the minimum requirements, but the game won't start. I press play and a after a few seconds of it "running", it will go back to the green play button

if its coming up with the play button continuing to return back to saying play, there is a program or piece of software on your system that is interfering with your FS25 startup sequence. i had the exact same issue with the call of duty launcher on steam.

[BigWhiteCat]

I have pretty good specs, installed game on C SSD, have dx12 with latest drivers but getting this:

GIANTS Engine Runtime 10.0.0 (37493) 64bit (Build Date: Nov 4 2024)
Copyright (c) 2008-2024, GIANTS Software GmbH (giants-software.com), All Rights Reserved.
Copyright (c) 2003-2024, Christian Ammann and Stefan Geiger, All Rights Reserved.
Application: FarmingSimulator2025
PID: 3812
Main System
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7640X CPU @ 4.00GHz
Virtual Cores: 4
Memory: 32692 MB
OS: Windows NT 10.0 64-bit
[DirectStorage] Configured for base game on a SSD drive
[DirectStorage] No GPU decompression for GDeflate
[DirectStorage] No GPU decompression for GDeflate
[DirectStorage] GDeflate Compression Support for 'FileQueueHigh' : DSTORAGE_COMPRESSION_SUPPORT_CPU_FALLBACK
[DirectStorage] GDeflate Compression Support for 'FileQueueNormal' : DSTORAGE_COMPRESSION_SUPPORT_CPU_FALLBACK
[DirectStorage] GDeflate Compression Support for 'MemoryQueueRealtime' : DSTORAGE_COMPRESSION_SUPPORT_CPU_FALLBACK
[DirectStorage] Init success
Physics System
Version: 6.3.7
Thread(s): 2
Audio System
Driver: SoftMixer WASAPI Stereo
Version: 2018.11
Frequency: 48000
Max. active sources: 256
Render System
Driver: Direct 3D 12
Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 7.8GB
Revision: 161
Driver version: 32.0.15.6614
Driver version is up to date.
Hardware Feature Level : 12_0
DirectX 12 AgilitySDK : 610
Error: Failed to create swap chain

The only cause in my opinion is might be old unupdated windows version 17763 build.

[Medicius]

Hey all,

Just jumping in quick as I read this because starting this morning (12/03) I couldn't get the game to launch. I've been playing since 11/28 without issue, so It came as a surprise when I saw the logo on my taskbar before it just disappeared without warning.

I followed a number of steps from videos on YouTube, but what appears to have fixed it for me was "removing" the save folder (I added _OLD to the end of the name so I could access it needed).

After I removed it I started the game and I saw that the game created a new FS25 folder in my documents/My Games/. After that I got a Giants popup window referencing loading (I didn't catch what exactly - I was just excited to see something other than the app crash). After that the game started as normal

The only oddity is that it reverted my settings to default, so I had to change the resolution to 3440x1440 and 120GHz. Otherwise, even my actual saved career files still existed and were playable.


TLDR: Rename your Documents/My Games/ Farming Simulator 2025 folder as _OLD and start the game.

Medicius