Game stopped working

[Azeral]

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone else has a similar issue and hopefully someone has some kind of a solution.

Few weeks ago I noticed that Mordheim: City of the Damned is not working. By this, I mean that it launches and I can hear sounds, but the display doesn't work. It either is display a tiny window in which I can't even move the mouse cursor, or if I put it in full screen (by pressing Alt+Enter) than I am getting either complete darkness or very pixelated icons (arrows, circles etc.)

My educated guess is that this is related to a windows update, but I am not 100% sure.

So far I tried rolling back the windows update, I tried launching it in a compatibility mode, as admin and not, tried updating drivers, tried verifying the integrity of game files. None of it worked so far. I ran out of idea.

Can someone help, please?

[Paranoia]

Well, you went through all the steps I would have taken to fix this issue, so I am out of ideas as well. Mind, what one update breaks, a later one may fix.
To be honest I do not recall hearing about this particular issue before.

[dv]

Delete file ...Documents/my games/Mordheim/options.sg and try again. Backup before you do.

If that does not work, change windows scaling behaviour. Windows scaling might screw things up.

[Azeral]

I appreciate the suggestions, but it still didn't work.
Literally nothing change.
For some reason the "Documents/my games/Mordheim/options.sg" file keeps appearing the moment I launch mordheim no matter how many times I delete it. I even tried editing it and nothing changed.
I tried scaling and it didn't do anything either.

[dv]

Originally posted by Mal:

For some reason the "Documents/my games/Mordheim/options.sg" file keeps appearing the moment I launch mordheim

Two possible causes:

a) The game recreates the file with default vaules. That is the intent.

b) Steam cloud sync creates the file from the cloud backup.


To prevent b), disable steam cloud sync, delete the file and try again.



Edit:
Latest GPU driver? No beta GPU driver?

[Azeral]

Originally posted by dv:

Originally posted by Mal:

For some reason the "Documents/my games/Mordheim/options.sg" file keeps appearing the moment I launch mordheim

Two possible causes:

a) The game recreates the file with default vaules. That is the intent.

b) Steam cloud sync creates the file from the cloud backup.


To prevent b), disable steam cloud sync, delete the file and try again.



Edit:
Latest GPU driver? No beta GPU driver?

I turned off Steam sync, turned steam to offline mode and disconnected my laptop from the internet alltogether, the Documents/my games/Mordheim/options.sg file appears the second I launch Mordheim. I don't know how to remove.

As for the drivers, I checked and both my powerful GPU card and the graphic card built into the CPU both have the most up to date drivers according to windows. I even updated NVidia drivers.

Still it is not displaying properly.

[dv]

That the file reappears means the game recreates it with default values. That is a good thing.


You can try command line arguments. Steam calls them launch options.

Scroll down to "Unity Standalone Player command line arguments":
https://docs.unity3d.com/520/Documentation/Manual/CommandLineArguments.html

I'd start with:
-popupwindow
-screen-fullscreen
-screen-height
-screen-width

If that does not work, force DirectX, Direct3D or versions of OpenGL.

[Azeral]

Originally posted by dv:

That the file reappears means the game recreates it with default values. That is a good thing.


You can try command line arguments. Steam calls them launch options.

Scroll down to "Unity Standalone Player command line arguments":
https://docs.unity3d.com/520/Documentation/Manual/CommandLineArguments.html

I'd start with:
-popupwindow
-screen-fullscreen
-screen-height
-screen-width

If that does not work, force DirectX, Direct3D or versions of OpenGL.

I tried all of these, and nothing worked. The force openGL at least gave me an error log/ Two actually I think.





=== ERROR LOG 1 ======================
Unity Player [version: Unity 5.3.6p2_7f388044e2f5]

mordheim.exe caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
in module mordheim.exe at 0033:62a0ddd0.

Error occurred at 2022-01-19_135124.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\mordheim\mordheim.exe, run by greg.
29% memory in use.
32618 MB physical memory [22945 MB free].
37482 MB paging file [26122 MB free].
134217728 MB user address space [134212989 MB free].
Read from location 2d0110ea caused an access violation.

Context:
RDI: 0x00000001 RSI: 0x044ae030 RAX: 0x04ce9480
RBX: 0x00000001 RCX: 0x2d0110c2 RDX: 0x00aff948
RIP: 0x62a0ddd0 RBP: 0x00000001 SegCs: 0x00000033
EFlags: 0x00010202 RSP: 0x00aff8a8 SegSs: 0x0000002b
R8: 0x00040000 R9: 0x00000005 R10: 0x0ca858dc
R11: 0x00aff860 R12: 0x044ae070 R13: 0x00000000
R14: 0x00000000 R15: 0x00000001

Bytes at CS:EIP:
48 8b 41 28 c3 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc

======================
BUNCH OF NUMBERS HERE
======================

Module 1
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\xinput1_3.dll
Image Base: 0x00400000 Image Size: 0x0001e000
File Size: 107368 File Time: 2007-04-04_185422
Version:
Company: Microsoft Corporation
Product: Microsoft® DirectX for Windows®
FileDesc: Microsoft Common Controller API
FileVer: 9.18.944.0
ProdVer: 9.18.944.0

Module 2
C:\WINDOWS\System32\bcryptPrimitives.dll
Image Base: 0x06150000 Image Size: 0x00082000
File Size: 526848 File Time: 2021-12-17_093928
Version:
Company: Microsoft Corporation
Product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
FileDesc: Windows Cryptographic Primitives Library
FileVer: 10.0.19041.1415
ProdVer: 10.0.19041.1415

Module 3
C:\WINDOWS\System32\WINTRUST.dll
Image Base: 0x06ca0000 Image Size: 0x00060000
File Size: 383224 File Time: 2022-01-13_185340
Version:
Company: Microsoft Corporation
Product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
FileDesc: Microsoft Trust Verification APIs
FileVer: 10.0.19041.1466
ProdVer: 10.0.19041.1466

Module 4
C:\WINDOWS\System32\CRYPT32.dll
Image Base: 0x07360000 Image Size: 0x00156000
File Size: 1383152 File Time: 2021-11-21_223732
Version:
Company: Microsoft Corporation
Product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
FileDesc: Crypto API32
FileVer: 10.0.19041.1320
ProdVer: 10.0.19041.1320


== [end of error.log] ==

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=== ERROR LOG 2 ======================

Initialize engine version: 5.3.6p2 (7f388044e2f5)
Forcing GfxDevice: OpenGL
OpenGL:
Version: OpenGL 4.6 [4.6.0 NVIDIA 511.09]
Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design/PCIe/SSE2
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
VRAM: 8011 MB (via DXGI)
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<RI> Initializing input.

<RI> Input initialized.

desktop: 1920x1080 144Hz; virtual: 1920x1080 at 0,0
Crash!!!
SymInit: Symbol-SearchPath: '.;C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\mordheim;C:\Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/mordheim;C:/WINDOWS;C:/WINDOWS/system32;SRV*C:/websymbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols;', symOptions: 530,


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========== OUTPUTING STACK TRACE ==================

RtlLookupFunctionEntry returned NULL function. Aborting stack walk.<Missing stacktrace information>

========== END OF STACKTRACE ===========

**** Crash! ****

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Does this help with anything?


Again, I appreciate your help with this.