game crashes on launch

[KidKev00]

never been able to launch the game as it crashes shortly after showing a white screen

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

The game has been known to randomly not work on Win11 update 24H2, especially on Intel but my friend had some luck reverting back to update 23H2.

There are also other things that seemingly can be at fault, there are many threads on the forum.

[KidKev00]

yea im still on windows 10. currently my 4th time reinstalling. ive tried to find fixes through these discussions since last month when i bought it. i havent found a fix yet which is disappointing. considering its 2k and clearly not everyone is having this issue i doubt they'll ever release an official fix for it before they pump out yet another broken game.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

If you look at my post history and search WWE, you might find something helpful.

[KidKev00]

ive tried changing the config file in documents but it still doesnt launch.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Specs?

And which game edition do you have (i.e. 40 years of WrestleMania, Standard, Bray Wyatt Edition. etc...)?

Thank you.

[KidKev00]

i7-9700k
rtx 4070 ti super
32gb ddr4
ive alternated from installing the game on my ssd to my hdd. the issue persists on both
i have the standard edition of the game

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

In the config file, what was the default upscaling before you changed it to Bilinear?

I have a running theory about DLSS.

[KidKev00]

i believe it was fsr1 or something like i cant remember what it said

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Have you run the game and/or Steam as Administrator?

I run both as Admin.

[KidKev00]

i just tried running the steam client as admin too with the game. still no avail.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Maybe we can think of other things but that "white screen" happens with my game, I believe it is a part of the "natural" startup/launch process.

1. I was thinking something about the game somehow using the iGPU instead, if applicable.
   
   
2. Then I was thinking, maybe DLSS was kicking on and I am not sure if this game supports it but 2K23 did support it, there is no clarification.
   
   
3. Then I was thinking about Windows "Game Mode" and "Hardware Acceleration", plus "Controlled Folders".
   
   
4. I have "Fullscreen Optimizations" disabled for the WWE executable (not sure if it does anything).
   
   
5. Then I was thinking about the MS VS C++ Redistributables.
   
   
6. The firewall whitelist.
   
   
7. Check if any "errors" or "warnings" pop in "Event Viewer" or "Reliability History" (at the same time, before and/or after attempted launch and subsequent crash/freeze).

[stav8]

same with me, it used to hang after the update and eventually boot up but now it just hard locks my pc

[stav8]

It could be one of two things.

1. Disable the steam overlay from the properties menu for the game properties on steam. This allowed me to get back into the game

2. Set the Scaling Rendered to FSR 1.0, I never noticed any lock ups under this setting and only started getting them after changing to linear. I changed it back to FSR from linear and the game booted up without locking for the first time in weeks with steam overlay active.

Not sure which one may be causing the issue but i'd gamble on it being the linear graphics setting.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Originally posted by stav8:

It could be one of two things.

1. Disable the steam overlay from the properties menu for the game properties on steam. This allowed me to get back into the game

2. Set the Scaling Rendered to FSR 1.0, I never noticed any lock ups under this setting and only started getting them after changing to linear. I changed it back to FSR from linear and the game booted up without locking for the first time in weeks with steam overlay active.

Not sure which one may be causing the issue but i'd gamble on it being the linear graphics setting.

For me, the game was not crashing when using Bilinear and crashing on menu screens using FSR1.

The problem is the system, your system has an issue with Steam Client particularly if you needed to turn off that Steam Overlay, I think it's the HTML Cache but not sure.

My system was missing the Users Group Permission, FSR1 crashes, and V-Sync crashes.

You should also state your CPU, GPU, OS build, and MOBO for user references (all my detailed system information is on my profile except Win10 is not stated which I use).

I really think this is dependent on CPU branding, model, and series but I cannot rule out lack of user maintenance for their systems either but Win11 update 24H2 has been confirmed as the culprit for 3 Win11 update 24H2 users on Intel processors.

[shawnhasty014]

same problem