so.. anyone else having trouble of game not launching at all?

[zompe12]

as the title says, so far tried, like others said, deleting the dlls, from the binary file, delete hello games from appdata, map the game in nvidia(dont work cause game wont launch), total game reinstall, vertifying files, tried with and without of mods, tried launching steam admin, steam reinstall, windows reinstall, driver reistall none of those work. Anything else i can do.

My specs
windows 11
Nvidia geforce RTX 2070 Super
intel core 17-9700k cpu 3.60ghz 8cpus
16gb corsair ram

[Musashi]

No error code if it crashes ?

You may have a look into your windows Event Viewer for more Info about that crash.

WINKey+R opens RUN, here type eventvwr

Here expand Windows Logs and look under Application for warnings with a Timestamp of that crash.

Copy&Paste the details here, so we can check it

And disable all mods

[zompe12]

Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 01/04/2025 21.34.54
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: Application Crashing Events
Level: Error
Keywords:
User: DESKTOP-3IR66UQ\######
Computer: DESKTOP-3IR66UQ
Description:
Faulting application name: NMS.exe, version: 9968.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x67e45ead
Faulting module name: ucrtbase.dll, version: 10.0.22621.3593, time stamp: 0x10c46e71
Exception code: 0xc0000409
Fault offset: 0x000000000007e008
Faulting process id: 0x0x142C
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DBA334C143B579
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\NMS.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\ucrtbase.dll
Report Id: 4da7625e-4e03-4145-b727-9b0f79c2e839
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" Guid="{a0e9b465-b939-57d7-b27d-95d8e925ff57}" />
<EventID>1000</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2025-04-01T18:34:54.3341123Z" />
<EventRecordID>123482</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="12960" ThreadID="13244" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>DESKTOP-3IR66UQ</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-21-2828136840-4055562549-2589040362-1001" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="AppName">NMS.exe</Data>
<Data Name="AppVersion">9968.0.0.0</Data>
<Data Name="AppTimeStamp">67e45ead</Data>
<Data Name="ModuleName">ucrtbase.dll</Data>
<Data Name="ModuleVersion">10.0.22621.3593</Data>
<Data Name="ModuleTimeStamp">10c46e71</Data>
<Data Name="ExceptionCode">c0000409</Data>
<Data Name="FaultingOffset">000000000007e008</Data>
<Data Name="ProcessId">0x142c</Data>
<Data Name="ProcessCreationTime">0x1dba334c143b579</Data>
<Data Name="AppPath">C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\NMS.exe</Data>
<Data Name="ModulePath">C:\WINDOWS\System32\ucrtbase.dll</Data>
<Data Name="IntegratorReportId">4da7625e-4e03-4145-b727-9b0f79c2e839</Data>
<Data Name="PackageFullName">
</Data>
<Data Name="PackageRelativeAppId">
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>


Error 01/04/2025 21.34.54 Application Error 1000 Application Crashing Events

[Musashi]

hmm
Faulting module name: ucrtbase.dll, version: 10.0.22621.3593,
could be because something else did go wrong before ..
There should be a crash dump file
If you can upload your crash dunp file into a cloud, with permission to download it, I´ll look into it
it should be in :
WinKey + R opens RUN than copy this: %localappdata%\Temp

and looks like :
NMS_crash_xxxxxxxxxx_NMSVersion_0xCrashcode_SteamID.dmp

[zompe12]

no crash dump file named is appearing there. i even tried launching the game multiple again if it would put a dump in the temp file, but for some reason its not there.

[Musashi]

Originally posted by zompe12:

no crash dump file named is appearing there. i even tried launching the game multiple again if it would put a dump in the temp file, but for some reason its not there.

because it never did start .. and therfore not crash

You may try a clean boot
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929135

hide all Microsoft services... than disable all but Steam

[zompe12]

only things that are apearing are
45c4bfb7-c2df-46f7-94be-60284ac8d9ec.tmp
a04c88a2-a3a2-4491-9aee-fe24b0b5d375.tmp
cf0bb5ff-e148-4a79-b642-ba87c80669ee.tmp. they seem to show up when the game fails to launch

[zompe12]

anyways, no luck with the clean boot. still wont launch. FYI it used to work couple of updates back, before aqaruis relics and the worlds update. i did some googling about the ucrtbase.dll fault, some say its nvidia related issue some saying its caused by the latest update by the game. dont know. doing sfc scannow.. to see if it does anything

[zompe12]

sfc scannow did not do nothing. like i thought. I did reinstall c+++ visual libraries too. but no luck with that either.

[smurfy]

Check Windows Update.
My Win11 system got an update to that dll after the Win11 24H2 feature update was installed. It's a newer version than reported in your error event. It wasn't done as part of any NMS update/patch.

[zompe12]

i have the latest update to windows. was it(the dll) supposed to get fixed in the update? or did the update break it?

[smurfy]

I'm not sure, still investigating. My 24H2 update was done 16 Feb and that file got updated 17 Feb.

Event Viewer logs don't go back that far to see what updated it.

My version 10.0.26100.3037

Not saying it's a fix, just that there is at least a newer version available from somewhere.

[Musashi]

@zompe12
Have you done this steps ?

1) delete sl.pcl.dll in \Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries and launch game,
1) delete everything inside C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA\NGX\models and launch the game

[Musashi]

Originally posted by smurfy:

I'm not sure, still investigating. My 24H2 update was done 16 Feb and that file got updated 17 Feb.

Event Viewer logs don't go back that far to see what updated it.

My version 10.0.26100.3037

Not saying it's a fix, just that there is at least a newer version available from somewhere.

Thats my version :
https://prnt.sc/SbdgqtAOQ44q

and thats my ucrtbase.dll version
https://prnt.sc/2_NGuhmS32wn

[smurfy]

OK, so tracked it down.
It is Microsoft Visual C++ but not the 2015-2022 Redistributable as you might expect.

It was 2012 11.0.61030 and 2013 12.0.30501 (x86 and x64).

Sure enough, this post[answers.microsoft.com] suggests a solution to be a full uninstall and clean reinstall of the latest versions.

You already mentioned reinstalling yours, but not how many of them and how you did it.

[zompe12]

my ucrtbase.dll got corrupted. (for some reason, most like during my previous clean install, maybe) that it would not register the fixed/corrected version, even if i used the cmd to re register it. None the less, i did a clean install again, and it seems to launching fine now.
i have no sure way to know how it got corrupted in a first place. and its funny that the sfc scan could not fix it.. Anyways.

Thank you both for you help