Game starts as a background process

[aysprime]

Anyone else having this issue?

Running on i5-3570K @4.6, HD7850 1GB, and win 8.1. It was actually running well for me all day until after an integrity check. Tried most of the fixes(move to C:, delete appcache, reinstall DX and VC, no user.ini, run steam as admin, run the game as admin/comp on 7/comp on 8, etc) and am currently doing a reinstall.

[aysprime]

http://i.imgur.com/1FtTAJ0.png

Reinstall doesn't help. Game *is* running, but inaccessible(task manager lists it under the background processes category).

[Syndwar]

same thing. Played 2 hours and now the game is running in background process one CPU core fully loaded and nothing. I reinstalled Windows 7, didn't help.

[RazerTooth]

windows 7 home premium service pack 1
amd fx 6 core processor 3.5ghz
8.00 gb memory
geo force gtx560

Same thing is happening to me right now even tho ive played 3 hours up untill this point without any problem,ALTHO when i exited the game it just seemed to freeze and i had to control alt tab and delete and just before this happened something popped up which said cloud save something or other isnt same as local or something along those lines.
Ive also tryed integrity check and run as admin but am not prepared to reinstall as yet as it took me something like 2 days to download :/ .
As others have said its runninf as background process now only.

[RazerTooth]

Im getting trading cards comin in my mail box now and again even tho i cant play the game is that because its running as a background process or something?,ive never really understood why you get those cards.

[Solidus]

Yes i'm having the same problem, also when quiting game, it freezes, i have to do ctrl alt del

[RazerTooth]

Yea i think doin that control alt delete too many times is whats lead to the problem now.

[RazerTooth]

I got it working again i deleted render settings and also viewport and then i verified cache and its now working ok again :) :) :).
I dont know if it was a conicidence or it was these things i did but i also found out when playing with xbox360 pad if i hammer my mouse button as i exit the game it exits ok now and doesnt stay stuck on the exit screen.

Glad i didnt uninstall :).
This game is totally awsome as well and i feel sorry for those having problems with it as its the BEST zombie game ive played.
(Altho i still cant change my res to 1400 900 im gonna wait for patch i think and not screw around incase i break it again or something.

[aysprime]

Originally posted by RazerTooth:

I got it working again i deleted render settings and also viewport and then i verified cache and its now working ok again :) :) :).

So I did a combination of this and setting a new render file to this and lo and behold, it actually booted. I've been trying to reproduce the problem, but it's no longer launching as a background process thanks to RazerTooth's suggestion. However crashing now occurs for me(loads into the menu just fine then crashes within a few minutes) and it seems that a wonky render settings file is the cause.

Specifically, setting your ScreenWidth, ScreenHeight, WindowWidth, and WindowHeight to your resolution *AND* making sure that you set the file to read only afterwards.

[RazerTooth]

Glad it helped as im clueless in general with pc stuff but at least its somewhat playable again and thats better than nothing untill the official patch,im still having problems with getting the resolution as i want it (should be 1400 by 900) but im happy i can play it at all considering some people keep getting these crashes which i fortunatly do not.

Its such a superb game tho when you can play it and despite these problems its by far the best zombie game ive played to date and is actually like i thought state of decay may of been like.
Awsome game but still needs some serious patching i guess.
Im glad all the same tho these games are making there way to pc as i had no intentions whatsoever of buying an xbox1 and a perhaps slim chance of getting a ps4 in future.
For now my trusty ps vita and pc are the perfect combination for me.

[aysprime]

Yeah, big thanks for the help. Really frustrating that the game itself writes a bogus ini file even after closing. Hmm... gonna try to see if I can add your res in my game. I think if you do the custom resolution fix found here and then manually write in your res for those four things in rendersettings and set it to read only, that might do the trick.

[aysprime]

No dice. Game doesn't want to recognize non-16x9 resolutions for me even with the new viewport and specifying the res in rendersettings.

[huntsekker]

could you put youre user.ini ? I want to see how did you put informations

[aysprime]

I assume you mean rendersettings.ini? The user.ini is for the framerate uncap.

Anyways, here:

// Render Settings
Language = en
ScreenWidth = 1600
ScreenHeight = 900
WindowLeft = 311
WindowTop = 156
WindowWidth = 1600
WindowHeight = 900
FullScreen = true
RefreshNumerator = 59940
RefreshDenominator = 1000
Gamma = 0.8
RENDER_QUALITY = RENDER_QUALITY_CUSTOM
GAME_RESOLUTION = GAME_RESOLUTION_720P
TEXTURE_RESOLUTION = TEXTURE_RESOLUTION_MEDIUM
SHADOW_QUALITY = SHADOW_QUALITY_LOW
SHADOW_RESOLUTION = SHADOW_RESOLUTION_HIGH
SSAO = SSAO_ENABLED
SSS = SSS_ENABLED
MIRROR_QUALITY = MIRROR_QUALITY_HIGH
VSYNC = VSYNC_ENABLED
AA_TYPE = AA_TYPE_NONE
ZOMBIE_QUALITY = ZOMBIE_QUALITY_HIGH
MOTION_BLUR = MOTION_BLUR_DISABLED
DOF = DOF_DISABLED
TEXTURE_FILTERING = TF_ANISOX16
SKY_QUALITY = SKY_QUALITY_HIGH
LOD_DISTANCE = LOD_DISTANCE_11

Everything under gamma, you'll have to experiment with to get the right mix of performance and quality for your setup. And just now noticed the shadow res option... gonna see if setting that to low will improve(or break) the game

[huntsekker]

thx =)

[huntsekker]

I didn't have render settings ! Did I put that in deadrising3 folder?