Game won't start

[Takotsubo]

I've been running Legend of Grimrock 2 all day long with no problems at all, but my game crashed when I tried to erase some text I had selected in a letter (I was on the dungeon editor). Now, I can't open the game at all. When I open it or when I press on play, there is the "Running" that appears for two seconds followed by "Syncing" for not even a quarter of a second. I tried re-installing the game, deleting the ".cfg" file and updating my graphics card driver, but none of these methods worked. Any idea on how to fix this problem?

[Dr.Disaster]

Does the game start when you move - whatever you worked on with the editor - out of the "Dungeons" folder?

Check "grimrock.log" for errors messages.

In case you're running Win10: try to start the game with a different / new user account.

[Takotsubo]

=== System Info ===

Game Version: 2.2.4
Computer name: GABRIEL-PC
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3610QM CPU @ 2.30GHz
OS Version: 6.2
OEM ID: 0
Physical CPUs: 8
Logical CPUs: 0
Page Size: 4096
Total Mem: 8077 MB
Free Mem: 5826 MB

=== GPUs ===

Device name: \\.\DISPLAY1
Device string: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000
State flags: 00000005

Device name: \\.\DISPLAY2
Device string: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000
State flags: 00000000

Device name: \\.\DISPLAY3
Device string: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000
State flags: 00000000

=== Settings ===

Render Engine: d3d9
Audio Engine: xaudio2
Steam: true
Resolution: 1266 x 628
Display Mode: fullscreen (1)
Vertical Sync: enabled (2)
Texture Resolution: high (3)
Texture Filter: anisotropic (3)
Shadow Quality: high (3)
SSAO Quality: high (3)
Rendering Quality: high (2)
Max Draw Distance: 1000.000000
Difficulty: normal
Oldschool Mode: false
Touchscreen Mode: false

Starting editor

=== Software Failure ===

[string "lib/imgui/MultiLineTextBox.lua"]:0: attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value
stack traceback:
[string "lib/imgui/MultiLineTextBox.lua"]: in function ''
[string "lib/imgui/MultiLineTextBox.lua"]: in function 'multitextbox'
[string "DungeonEditor.lua"]: in function 'multitextbox'
[string "ScrollItem.lua"]: in function 'objectInspector'
[string "DungeonEditor.lua"]: in function 'inspectComponent'
[string "DungeonEditor.lua"]: in function 'inspectObject'
[string "DungeonEditor.lua"]: in function 'inspect'
[string "DungeonEditor.lua"]: in function 'update'
[string "Grimrock.lua"]: in main chunk

Also, when I try to start the game from "grimrock2.exe", there is a message saying that MSCVR100.dll is missing from my computer...

[Dr.Disaster]

Yep, like i figured: an error in your editor project causes the game to crash. Move it out of "Dungeons" and retry starting the game.

Now that you get the message about MSCVR100.dll is missing is really odd. What on your system - beside you yourself - would on purpose remove a required file? Re-run the vcredist that comes with the game and see if that fixes it.

[Takotsubo]

I did everything, and I tried running the game and it worked! Thank you for the help, it's really appreciated.

[ValkyrieDrake]

Last time I was able to play was in January and it went fine. Tried to play yesterday and the following happens:
1) Preparing to launch Grimrock 2 dialogue pops up and running appears beside game in list
2) after ~1 second preparing dialogue closes
3) after another `1-2 seconds running changes to syncing beside game name in list
4) after less than 1 second syncing disappears and nothing further happens

Opened Task manager during and game process doesn't appear.

Used vcredist and dx redist that comes with game and nothing changes.

Verify game files and nothing changes.

Uninstall and delete every file related to game and then reinstall and nothing changes.

When I run from executable in steamapps folder it comes up with an error that says "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)."

All drivers (video, audio, etc..) up to date, Steam and Grimrock 2 up to most recent versions.

Every other game in my library works fine except grimrock 1 and grimrock 2.

Running Windows 10 on a laptop.

Don't meet recommended requirements but do meet minimum and system specs haven't changed since game last ran successfully. Also game ran perfectly on mid to high settings on this system.

Please help as I really want to get back into this game.

[Dr.Disaster]

ValkyrieDrake の投稿を引用：

When I run from executable in steamapps folder it comes up with an error that says "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)."

In general this error comes up after Windows managed to ♥♥♥♥ itself up by mixing 32 bit Dlls into it's 64 bit DLL repository. Regarding LoG this means the 32 bit game engine is served a 64 bit library by your Win10 which causes the 0xc000007b error.

Usual fix:
a) open an command line with admin privileges
b) run "sfc /scannow" and wait until it's finished
c) check the log generated at the end
d) reboot

[ValkyrieDrake]

Dr.Disaster の投稿を引用：

ValkyrieDrake の投稿を引用：

When I run from executable in steamapps folder it comes up with an error that says "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)."

In general this error comes up after Windows managed to ♥♥♥♥ itself up by mixing 32 bit Dlls into it's 64 bit DLL repository. Regarding LoG this means the 32 bit game engine is served a 64 bit library by your Win10 which causes the 0xc000007b error.

Usual fix:
a) open an command line with admin privileges
b) run "sfc /scannow" and wait until it's finished
c) check the log generated at the end
d) reboot

This didn't work. However your post reminded me that this game is a 32bit program. I tried running the 32-bit vc redist instead of the 64-bit one and The game works fine now. Thank you.

[Overmind77]

ValkyrieDrake の投稿を引用：

Dr.Disaster の投稿を引用：

In general this error comes up after Windows managed to ♥♥♥♥ itself up by mixing 32 bit Dlls into it's 64 bit DLL repository. Regarding LoG this means the 32 bit game engine is served a 64 bit library by your Win10 which causes the 0xc000007b error.

Usual fix:
a) open an command line with admin privileges
b) run "sfc /scannow" and wait until it's finished
c) check the log generated at the end
d) reboot

This didn't work. However your post reminded me that this game is a 32bit program. I tried running the 32-bit vc redist instead of the 64-bit one and The game works fine now. Thank you.

HI, I have the exact same problem, but no solution presented worked for me: no new account, no drivers, no scan, nothing.
Everything works fine in steam but this game, so I wondered how did you made it work? How did you "run the 32-bit vc redist instead of the 64-bit one" exactly?
Sorry for showing up late in the thread...

[ValkyrieDrake]

Overmind77 の投稿を引用：

ValkyrieDrake の投稿を引用：

This didn't work. However your post reminded me that this game is a 32bit program. I tried running the 32-bit vc redist instead of the 64-bit one and The game works fine now. Thank you.

HI, I have the exact same problem, but no solution presented worked for me: no new account, no drivers, no scan, nothing.
Everything works fine in steam but this game, so I wondered how did you made it work? How did you "run the 32-bit vc redist instead of the 64-bit one" exactly?
Sorry for showing up late in the thread...

Unfortunately I won't be able to help you with this as it's been a couple years since I last played this game and Steam doesn't seem to install the vc redists anymore. Sorry about that.

[Dr.Disaster]

Overmind77 の投稿を引用：

ValkyrieDrake の投稿を引用：

This didn't work. However your post reminded me that this game is a 32bit program. I tried running the 32-bit vc redist instead of the 64-bit one and The game works fine now. Thank you.

HI, I have the exact same problem, but no solution presented worked for me: no new account, no drivers, no scan, nothing.
Everything works fine in steam but this game, so I wondered how did you made it work? How did you "run the 32-bit vc redist instead of the 64-bit one" exactly?
Sorry for showing up late in the thread...

Right-click the game in your library, pick "manage" and "local files ...".
An explorer window will open.
Enter folder "_CoomonRedist"
Enter folder "vcredist"
Enter folder "2010"
Double-click "vcredist_x86.exe" to install the missing DLL's.

[Overmind77]

ValkyrieDrake の投稿を引用：

Overmind77 の投稿を引用：

HI, I have the exact same problem, but no solution presented worked for me: no new account, no drivers, no scan, nothing.
Everything works fine in steam but this game, so I wondered how did you made it work? How did you "run the 32-bit vc redist instead of the 64-bit one" exactly?
Sorry for showing up late in the thread...

Unfortunately I won't be able to help you with this as it's been a couple years since I last played this game and Steam doesn't seem to install the vc redists anymore. Sorry about that.

No problem! Thank you anyway!

[Overmind77]

Dr.Disaster の投稿を引用：

Overmind77 の投稿を引用：

HI, I have the exact same problem, but no solution presented worked for me: no new account, no drivers, no scan, nothing.
Everything works fine in steam but this game, so I wondered how did you made it work? How did you "run the 32-bit vc redist instead of the 64-bit one" exactly?
Sorry for showing up late in the thread...

Right-click the game in your library, pick "manage" and "local files ...".
An explorer window will open.
Enter folder "_CoomonRedist"
Enter folder "vcredist"
Enter folder "2010"
Double-click "vcredist_x86.exe" to install the missing DLL's.

Thanks for the info. Done and doesn't work either... Damn. I'll try again with a new account, maybe deleting the old one will help... Can't imagine why it works plain for others and no way for me.

And, of course, LoG1 doesn't work... I wanted to port the config file from there since I don't have any in the folder: neither that nor the log file. I should try with folder permissions, but I already set exceptions in Windows Defender, or are there other settings?

[Dr.Disaster]

Overmind77 の投稿を引用：

And, of course, LoG1 doesn't work... I wanted to port the config file from there since I don't have any in the folder: neither that nor the log file. I should try with folder permissions, but I already set exceptions in Windows Defender, or are there other settings?

Both games create their cfg file on first startup. The fact that both games do not work for you hints at some serious system problems.

Both games require a fully working DX9 environment plus the 2010 32bit vcredist DLL's installed therefore both games bring along the required driver installers. Make sure to run all of them. Check the "Almost Human \Legend of Grimrock" folders for *.log files
providing hints what's wrong.

[Overmind77]

I just checked and the log files are missing. They worked fine with my win7, when I had to switch to win10 for my new pc I reinstalled steam but they didn't work anymore. I tried reinstalling them so now I don't have log or cfg files because they never started again...
I reinstalled the dll in the game folder and tell me to uninstall or repair, I gave to repair but nothing new and the same with the DX included. Starting the exe file still gives me the 0xc0000007b error...
In documents\Almost Human I only have the LoG2 folder.

[Overmind77]

Sorry I'm late, problems with my working hours...
This is the link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PKZR8x84xTUZOzApBm8y5g_AZNAhym67/view?usp=sharing
And always thank you for your help. By the way, it's italian version, but you can guess well the meaning...