Game worked initially, but now crashes on startup.

[N the Ultimate]

Last night I played Sonic Generations and everything worked fine, however the game crashed when I tried returning to the Game Select screen. I thought nothing about it, but now when I try to boot up the game again, a black window appears and closes shortly after. I'm not sure what the issue is, so help would be appreciated.

[Moo Mew]

Bumping this because my game won't open either and I'd like people to shut up about whether or not sonic is woke (it always has been) and help us actually play the game.

[N the Ultimate]

Originally posted by Moo Mew:

Bumping this because my game won't open either and I'd like people to shut up about whether or not sonic is woke (it always has been) and help us actually play the game.

I found a fix for my issue. Funnily enough, it was the same kind of fix I needed to do for Yakuza 0. Go to this folder:

AppData > Roaming > SEGA > SONIC_X_SHADOW_GENERATIONS > steam > x64

In there, there's a screen_setting.xml file, open it with notepad or whatever you prefer and change "fullscreenState=" to equal 0 rather than 1.

After that, the game opened and Full Screen didn't cause any more crashes after that, but I decided to set my game to always be Borderless Windowed just to be safe.

[GrimAtrament]

So is the game launching the launcher for it or is it when you start either game?

Because just a heads up the initial screen is a launcher I tested it it closes and then opens the game so you might be able to launch the games directly in your files.

[yawning_abyss]

Me too man, exact same problem

[N the Ultimate]

Originally posted by GrimAtrament:

So is the game launching the launcher for it or is it when you start either game?

Because just a heads up the initial screen is a launcher I tested it it closes and then opens the game so you might be able to launch the games directly in your files.

When I was having the issue, I did check this, and launching either executable gave me the same result. Makes sense that fixing the .xml file ended up fixing both games too.

[nodoka]

Originally posted by N the Ultimate:

Originally posted by Moo Mew:

Bumping this because my game won't open either and I'd like people to shut up about whether or not sonic is woke (it always has been) and help us actually play the game.

I found a fix for my issue. Funnily enough, it was the same kind of fix I needed to do for Yakuza 0. Go to this folder:

AppData > Roaming > SEGA > SONIC_X_SHADOW_GENERATIONS > steam > x64

In there, there's a screen_setting.xml file, open it with notepad or whatever you prefer and change "fullscreenState=" to equal 0 rather than 1.

After that, the game opened and Full Screen didn't cause any more crashes after that, but I decided to set my game to always be Borderless Windowed just to be safe.

tried this out, didnt work... tested with other values, changed the resolution, nothing worked. If anyone else know of a solution for it I'd be rlly rlly glad :)

[Mountain]

i dont know where to find the xml file even when im in the sonic x shadow generations folder

[dre33rb]

is there any other fix? i cannot get anything to work

[sarhoskusmuk]

I don't even have any of those files in the x64 probably because the game hasn't even launched successfully on my end for once... It keeps saying that i dont meet the requirements which is not true and there are not much mentions of this issue and none with the resolve...

[Ksonic30]

If anyone could help because the game keeps crashing for me like as soon as I started up, it shows a black screen with white line blinking in the top left corner and then just go back to the steam menu

[sarhoskusmuk]

Originally posted by Ksonic30:

If anyone could help because the game keeps crashing for me like as soon as I started up, it shows a black screen with white line blinking in the top left corner and then just go back to the steam menu

Just refund it no hope for this game to run without any issues for right now

[Dead Baron]

Originally posted by N the Ultimate:

Originally posted by Moo Mew:

Bumping this because my game won't open either and I'd like people to shut up about whether or not sonic is woke (it always has been) and help us actually play the game.

I found a fix for my issue. Funnily enough, it was the same kind of fix I needed to do for Yakuza 0. Go to this folder:

AppData > Roaming > SEGA > SONIC_X_SHADOW_GENERATIONS > steam > x64

In there, there's a screen_setting.xml file, open it with notepad or whatever you prefer and change "fullscreenState=" to equal 0 rather than 1.

After that, the game opened and Full Screen didn't cause any more crashes after that, but I decided to set my game to always be Borderless Windowed just to be safe.

Bumping this thread for anyone Googling for Arch Linux / Steam Deck / Artix

The file path on Linux using Proton is /home/[USERNAME]/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/2513280/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/SEGA/SONIC_X_SHADOW_GENERATIONS/steam/x64

Jiminy cricket that's a long file path lol

I noticed the non-fullscreen resolution was set to a weird resolution, 1912x980. This is likely what causes the crash for most people. Once you edit this .xml it rebuilds the resolution correctly.

haven't been able to get it to crash again so far.