Beta branch/Unkillable Process

[Truthowl]

I run the beta branch. I use Windows 7 and have all of the windows patches.

I haven't played UnclaimedWorld in a while. Possibly months. But after this latest update I thought I'd give it a shot. When I clicked on Play in the Steam client nothing happened. I pull up task manager and it shows Unclaimedworld.exe running, twice. But no game. So I tried killing the processes so I could try again. No good. They wont die. Even using Taskkill.exe they wont die. So I searched the net for other ways to kill stubborn windows processes. I've tried Process Explorer, Process Assasin and Process Hacker. none can kill the processes. Killing Steam dont work either.

The only way to terminate those Unclaimedworld.exe processes is to restart windows.

I'm going to try changing to the normal non-beta branch and try again later. But I wanted to post and let someone know about this.

[Truthowl]

Okay, no good. I went into properties and chose to opt out of the beta and went to the normal branch. Then I uninstalled and when that finished I reinstalled. Then I tried to play. Same thing. But I was wrong about it running twice. It has 3 processes running. But one of them is killable. The other 2 aren't.

Guess I can't play until this gets fixed.

[kubluu]

As a troubleshooting step, try if it is possible to run the game from the installed folder.
You can find it under:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Unclaimed World\UnclaimedWorld.exe

[Truthowl]

For me it's under D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Unclaimed World\UnclaimedWorld.exe

Just tried it and no change. Now I need to restart my computer. Thank you though for the idea. Anything else I can try?

[Truthowl]

Sorry, I was wrong. All I did was change the C in your post to D. On my computer the game is actually located here D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Unclaimed World

I remember a year or so ago when I was deciding to install my steam games on a new drive that some apps have trouble installing/running at 'Program Files (x86)', so I figured I'd choose a location that eliminated that particular problem.

[kubluu]

Are you running in windowed mode? There is an issue where the game freezes for a little when switching windows.

[Truthowl]

Sorry for the long delay. Got tired of restarting my computer. Finally tried it in full screen. Still wont run and I still get the 3 processes. 2 unkillable and 1 that can be killed. They are about 120k in size or so says the task manager.

I may try uninstalling it again and then use ccleaner to clean out any left over registry items before reinstalling. But I'll probably wait till I feel like sitting around and waiting for my computer to reboot before I decide to give it a try.

I use an old program called Wallpaper Master Pro. It makes my computer boot very very slowly. But I simply love the program so I keep it around. Nothing else I've found does what it does. But it means that troubleshooting something like this gets annoying as hell. I could disable it while I troubleshoot, I guess. Just not feeling like messing with it at the moment.

Is there any way to kill these processes when conventional methods of killing them fail?

[kubluu]

Could it be the video/music problem? Since you were able to run the game previously, it's not likely. Still, there may be an error message somewhere in the event log.

[Truthowl]

It works now and has for over a week. Not sure which patch fixed it. Thank you for trying and fixing the issue.