Game Doesn't Start

[brenanaman]

Can anyone help me get No Mans Sky to run again? Ever since the new update, the game wont start anymore. I press launch, It says it's running for a few seconds, then it says its "syncing" for half a second and then stops.

[Hugh Manatee]

handsome-gamer-tag님이 먼저 게시:

Worked for me so now the game launches. Thanks Byte Me!

Game still buggy though. When I launch the game it somehow disconnects my monitor which causes Windows to switch to my second monitor. Physically disconnecting my second monitor stops the switch from happening but the main monitor still gets briefly disconnected on game launch.

Once the game is setup it runs pretty well without issue for me, max graphics 1440p.

Nice one! It floored me when it worked (and still is), especially after trying literally everything to resolve the issue. In the early days, I had some brief success with another solution, but it was at the mercy of the latest patch.

Have you tried opening the TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML again and looking for the lines:

<Property name="NumHighThreads" value="?"

<Property name="NumLowThreads" value="?"

The value will be set by the game and vary. Basically, it's a reflection of how many cores the game accesses. I was advised with a 6 core, for example, it helps sputtering if the "Low" is set to "0" and the "High" set to "6" should help reduce this. There are other combinations you can use effectively, with a 6 core, but ALL have "Low" set to "0".

[Big Vil]

mine was working earlier but with latest update wont launch anymore

[tim]

I ran it with my display set to 1280 720 and it finally ran! Wasted an hour, but hey, it runs.

[Hugh Manatee]

muthuvelpillay님이 먼저 게시:

mine was working earlier but with latest update wont launch anymore

Have you tried both "3xperimental" and without? Experimental is accessed through properties. Select the "Beta" tab, then enter 3xperimental in the beta code. You should be able to switch between experimental and none in the drop down list above. It's a noob solution people sometimes overlook and could help. Hope it does.

[tim]

Weird, I would change the resolution on my laptop, try to launch it, and it would be fine. Closed it to test again, wouldn't open. Changed the resolution back and it launched again. Tried it again and it wouldn't launch again. So, to get it to run, just change the resolution??? Something is going on with the nvidia drivers.

[Hugh Manatee]

tim님이 먼저 게시:

Weird, I would change the resolution on my laptop, try to launch it, and it would be fine. Closed it to test again, wouldn't open. Changed the resolution back and it launched again. Tried it again and it wouldn't launch again. So, to get it to run, just change the resolution??? Something is going on with the nvidia drivers.

Did you try my solution and change "FullScreen" to false and "Borderless" to true? You can edit without starting the game. It's in your TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML file if you open it in Notepad. If it doesn't work, you can easily edit the TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML again so FullScreen is true and Borderless is false. Can't hurt if you haven't tried it.

Since I have played the game from day 1, I've always had it set to play with FullScreen. This is why it was literally the last thing I considered would fix my issues. Floored me when it worked.

[ChevyAndVW]

i cant even load the game anymore...

[Grospii]

I don't know if anyone will see this but I fixed the issue by uninstalling everything attachet to the SpecialK Mod. If you don't know what this is, here a quick explanation:

SpecialK is a rather popular Mod for a variaty of steam games (for me it was Nier:Automata). The installer is SKIM64. I launched SKIM64 and uninstalled the global SpecialK injector.

Lucky you, whoever finds this answer and can fix the issue like I did...

[Lobster199]

Yo everyone update your drivers!! I could not open the game and then I updated my drivers and now I can launch the game fine.

[sherlockazulu]

Duke님이 먼저 게시:

BrenanaMan69님이 먼저 게시:

I never changed the game's resolution though. Is there a way to change the games resolution without starting the game?

Here
https://puu.sh/E5yV2/2df0b76313.png

This worked for me. The filename has changed though. It's in TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML now. Just set the resolution setting to your monitor's setting and restart.

[Klyde]

I had an issue of the game crashing right after the Hello Games logo, like many folks here, I tried all kinds of video settings, driver updates etc. I had run across another thread that mentioned turning off "Audiosrv" in the 'services' tab of Windows Task Manager. For me this worked like a charm! Although this shuts off audio so I play in silence. I had Realtec audio drivers and had uninstalled them, but the game still crashed at Hello's logo. Just wanted to mention it here for anyone still stuck with not being able to play. It's another thing to try. I just leave task manager opened so I can turn it back on after I'm done, lol.

[Musashi]

@Klyde
What you also can do :
type services.msc in RUN
Stop "Windows Audio"
Boot NMS
Start "Windows Audio"

[Klyde]

Musashi님이 먼저 게시:

@Klyde
What you also can do :
type services.msc in RUN
Stop "Windows Audio"
Boot NMS
Start "Windows Audio"

Thanks! Tried that but when audio starts, the games CTD's. I have gotten used to playing games without sound most of the time anyway lol

[Saralene]

So for others having this issue like me, I've written a batch file that will fulfill the purpose.

Copy the text into notepad, save it as a .bat file, run.
If this doesn't work because your game takes a bit longer to launch, change the 15 to a 30.

@echo off
net stop audiosrv
start steam://rungameid/275850
TIMEOUT /T 15 /NOBREAK
net start audiosrv

[RikardoRix]

I got fineally fixed my game by removing MSVCP120.dll and MSVCR120.dll from System32 folder. After that downloaded these files from these addresses.
MSVCP120.dll - https://www.dll-files.com/msvcp120.dll.html
MSVCPR120.dll - https://www.dll-files.com/msvcr120.dll.html
after moving these newly downloaded files to system32, game started correctly and no errors were given. Any other fix didn't work for me.