Launcher Crashes Instantly

[Raze]

I've been looking around for a fix for a while and everything pinned in the forum hasnt worked. Just installed and crashes within seconds of pressing the play button.

I did all the reinstalls for visual studio, i made sure i have the new drivers for my gpu, I set the launcher to be run by admin, I reinstalled the game 2x, disabled overlays. Still nothing.

The game can run if i launch from the exec but i cant save anything and the game crashes when it tries to.

I'm not running any mods or anything, fresh install.

[Space Lord]

Have the same problem. I can launch the game directly with the exe from the game files but the launcher crashes.
"Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Mount & Blade II Bannerlord\bin\Win64_Shipping_Client" and find the exe there.

Edit: I can launch it from the exe, but just noticed no mods are active.
Edit2: Deleted everything, mod folders, unistalled, game setting files etc. Reinstalled, slowly added mods, and launcher worked. Started a new game, was working fine. Then tried to resume the game later and launcher works but game crashes on intro screen.

[Valkorian]

Me too....launching from desktop icon crashes instantly since the patch/update today

[Batman]

same issue here

[Skakk]

I have had this issue and solved this issue for many players so far, but if its something from the new patch then it may not be solvable by me.

What it sounds like is the launcher problem from when people were using mods as load order was getting messed up.

You mentioned doing all the reinstalls of visual studios. This software is for coding/making mods. If your not using mods, why is this of importance? Did you do some coding of the game files?

Either way the fix for others, that may also help you is to use the 'Fixed Launcher' mod from Nexus
https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/205
Try this out and insure that the games modules are in correct order

Also regarding mods, even when you delete the game and do a fresh install, any mods you were using will remain in your bannerlord folder. You need to insure these are all deleted.
It is also possible that if you downloaded a mod before that you did not unblock some of the files which is causing the crash now.
The mod will not show up in launcher but it will still cause a crash.

So try the mod fixed launcher.
If that doesn't work
Insure all mods and non game folders/files are deleted, then verify game files in steam.
Try to launch game, if that doesn;t work repeat action on downloading fixed launcher and try to launch.

If you have blocked files from mods then deleting everything should fix it.
Blocked files seems to be only an issue for those on Win10 and were they didn't use WinRar to extract the files to the Bannerlord folder.

Good Luck

[Raze]

Originally posted by Skakk:

You mentioned doing all the reinstalls of visual studios. This software is for coding/making mods. If your not using mods, why is this of importance? Did you do some coding of the game files?


Either way the fix for others, that may also help you is to use the 'Fixed Launcher' mod from Nexus
https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/205
Try this out and insure that the games modules are in correct order

Part of the fixes suggested by the pinned comments on the launcher not launching suggests installing or reinstalling a bunch of microsoft code, checking driver updates, and checking OS updates. I did all those, but as I stated, I have not downloaded any mods whatsoever. It's vanilla. So I don't think a mod that fixes the launcher not displaying mods properly will help me in this situation.

At this point im kinda resigned to waiting for the devs to fix this.

[Raze]

@Spacelord can you save your game without it crashing? I can launch the game from that folder and it runs unless you or the game tries to save, then the game crashes.

[Skakk]

Since many are not having this issue it is something your end.
Possible Devs could fix it due to an issue with the software or hardware you have, but I feel it should be something you can do unless you have a pc that is below minimum requirements in some category.

Try using the fixed launcher mod either way to make sure the game modules are in order;

Order is;
Native
Sandbox Core
Custom Battle
Sandbox
StoryMode

[cachmandrake]

Deleted all my addons and it worked

EDIT: a more detailed explanation of what I did:
+ Used Steam's "Verify File integrity" (this removed mods like fixedlauncher)
+ Deleted all mods
+ Launcher works again, started game normally
+ close game
+ copy mods into the folder again
+ activated mods in launcher
+ game works as normal

[Skakk]

Nice good to hear

[Raze]

I f**king did it. Windows 10 antivirus was stopping the launcher from working. Go into settings, update & security, Windows security, virus and threat protection, virus and threat protection settings, controlled folder access, allow an app through, and allow the launcher through. in the steam folder

[Midnight_Q]

After today's patch I am unable to launch the game with or without mods. The launcher does not even open. The steam "Play" button loads, changes to "stop" then the program fails to start.

[theyoungshaft]

Also unable to get to work. The Windows 10 antivirus maneuver didn't work for me, neither did verifying the files

[Space Lord]

Originally posted by Raze:

@Spacelord can you save your game without it crashing? I can launch the game from that folder and it runs unless you or the game tries to save, then the game crashes.

Yes. I deleted all mod folders, all setting files, and can play by launching directly from exe, no problems saving.

[Gideon]

i got it to work. it was one of the mods that caused the problem for me. i deleted mod after mod until i found the one causing the problem. now it works fine.

[mark41974]

cool story but what mod?, not that it matters ive deleted all my mods tried everything above and still no launcher screen.