Game won't launch

[S.O.S]

It was working fine a few months ago, I played it for around 90 mins with no problems. I come back to it now and it crashed on startup everytime. I uninstalled and installed again and this time it just said "preparing for launch".. it says its "running" in the games list for a few seconds followed by a very short "syncing" and then goes away. Nothing happens.

I've tried
-Updating drivers
-Trying older drivers
-Running as admin
-Browsing local files and Reinstalling the directX (I saw this fixed for some people)

But no luck, anyone got any ideas of how to fix this?

Thanks for any replies.


EDIT - Running win10 64bit

[Dr.Disaster]

Sounds like the game got started and then died for some reason.
The "syncing" is normal Steam behavior when a game with cloud support exits.

Go to "Documents" -> "Almost Human" -> "Legend of Grimrock 2"
Post the content of "grimrock.log".

It won't hurt to look into your event log too.

[S.O.S]

Hey, this is what it shows...

=== System Info ===

Game Version: 2.2.4
Computer name:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
OS Version: 6.2
OEM ID: 0
Physical CPUs: 8
Logical CPUs: 0
Page Size: 4096
Total Mem: 8167 MB
Free Mem: 4039 MB

=== GPUs ===

Device name: \\.\DISPLAY6
Device string: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
State flags: 00000005

Device name: \\.\DISPLAY7
Device string: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
State flags: 00000001

Device name: \\.\DISPLAY8
Device string: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
State flags: 00000000

Device name: \\.\DISPLAY9
Device string: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
State flags: 00000000


Thanks for the help.

[Dr.Disaster]

Did you change GPUs lately? It's pretty unusual to have that device list start with DISPLAY6 and not DISPLAY1. Might be a registry problem.

I'd try a cleanup tool like DDU from wagnardmobile.com and run a clean un- and reinstall of the display driver.

[S.O.S]

I will try this soon. Thanks for the help man.

[fanfanlatulipe gerard philippes]

for Legend of Grimrock 2 you installed your games on steam or another version that does not require steam there Souvant has platages steam on the version I have both a release on Steam and other custom which settles in the programe windows file manager and no problem to launch the same games in high resolution games but you also see your video manager if it manages well the 3d

[S.O.S]

Ok so I managed to get it running. What I did was as a last effort before reinstalling the drivers I noticed there was no grimrock.cfg. I took the cfg from Grimrock 1.. thinking it wouldn't work anyway but I'd try it. So it then crashed on startup this time. When it did this I ran the troubleshoot thing that pops up and clicked "use recommended settings" or somehting similar. It then would work by running the exe from the folder but it still doesnt work if I try to press play in steam.

I just played it for a few hours with no problems. Well at least it's running!

Thanks for your help guys.

[Dr.Disaster]

In general the game creates a default "grimrock.cfg" when there is none plus it also offers to correct a bad/corrupt config files if need be. The most common explanation for a missing "grimrock.cfg" would be that the game is not allowed to write in it's folders inside your user profile but since it could already write "grimrock.log" there is something else going on.

Could be a problem within your Steam Client or your user profile. You could try to create a new Win10 user account and check if the game gets started from Steam while logged into the new user.