Error "failed to initialise"

[Thierry Margoulin]

The title says it all, my game won't launch, when I try it says "Failed to initialise"... Already uninstalled and reinstalled it, doesn't change anything :)
Please help !

[Grinding Gear Games]

Hey there,

This is usually related to the language profile of your keyboard.
Switching it to US/UK English, removing the other language profile then adding it again should fix this crash.

If that doesn't help, can you please try 'Verifying Game Cache' and letting us know where this error message occurs?

Yeran_GGG

[Thierry Margoulin]

Thanks a lot for answering so quickly ! As you said, I changed the language profile of my keyboard and now it works ! :)
I hope this will help others players who had the same issue ^^

[Krabat]

Hi all,

I now have the same Problem, error occurs directly after the steam "Path of Exile is being started" window. Path of Exile doesnt start at all it seems. I have played PoE fine on this Computer a few weeks ago.

So far i have tried:
- Checking local files
- Changing locale from DE to EN, removing DE, reinstalling DE like you discribed
- installed latest catalyst "omega" driver
- installed directx from the por directory
- reinstallel PoE

System is Win8.1 x64, AMD HD7870, Corei5

Please Help!

THANKS :-)

[Krabat]

update: using another windows account on same computer also does not help :(

[Grinding Gear Games]

Originally posted by Storkuk:

Hey there !!!!!

I've the same problem, but I don't know how to switch the language profile...
Shame on me !
Help me please :)

Control Panel > Change Keyboards, Language or Region > Keyboards and Languages > Select 'Change Keyboards' > Select US/UK english.

Originally posted by Krabat:

Hi all,

I now have the same Problem, error occurs directly after the steam "Path of Exile is being started" window. Path of Exile doesnt start at all it seems. I have played PoE fine on this Computer a few weeks ago.

So far i have tried:
- Checking local files
- Changing locale from DE to EN, removing DE, reinstalling DE like you discribed
- installed latest catalyst "omega" driver
- installed directx from the por directory
- reinstallel PoE

System is Win8.1 x64, AMD HD7870, Corei5

Please Help!

THANKS :-)

Just to confirm, did you use Steam's verification tool via right-clicking Path of Exile and selecting Properties > Local Files > Verifying Integrity of Game Cache? Note that if you normally run Path of Exile through Steam then the Pack Check tool will not help here. If you are still experiencing issues here you may need to contact us at [e-mail] so we can address and resolve this issue.

Regards,
Yeran

[CaWa]

Strangely, i fixed the problem by enabling "Windows Firewall" in Task Manager->services (MpsSvc)

[Krabat]

problem solved itself by updating to win10 for me in the end.

[Bromek]

Enablind service "Windows Firewall" solved problem for me. :) Disabled it before the game, and it couldn't initlialise. :v

[yuko kurose]

Hi, I ran into this problem just now and tried everything that was above, except contacting technical support. Help