Game won't launch at all, help

[BobTheMartin]

After I start the launcher, clicking on PLAY button just closes it, so does DX10 and safemode
I tried other launchers in game files, checking file integrity, and reinstalling, none of these solved my issue, please help

[BobTheMartin]

Note: First startup got stuck so I closed steam and relaunched it, first startup window did not come up again, not even after reinstall

[Scraig]

My game became corrupt after downloading lc3, I think they ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up the update. RIP

[Leitão da Roça]

same hereeeeee

[Scraig]

It will work if you delete the Automation game folder then reinstall

[Killrob]

The data corruption issue with the lcv3_test branch was fixed in the first patch that came out on the 25th :)
Make sure you guys check out the Troubleshooting FAQ, 95% of all issues people have at startup are fixed by those solutions.

[JEL]

I get a 'hang' on some starts too.

Click the steam-play button; a window opens (with latest news on the left and an automation-play button on the bottom-right.

When I click that play button, a new window opens and the big automation rotating wheel just rotates forever (and there's an automation tool-tip shown across the screen)
The little steam-play window pop-up never opens, so maybe it's waiting for that?

In task-manager automation is shown as running and memory-use just keeps rising.

I then click [alt-f4] which closes the automation window. After a moment steam shows the game as no longer running.

I then click the steam-play button again, and again the first automation window opens (with the news and the play button)

But this time, when I click the automation-play button, the game actually starts.
It gets to the same window (the big rotating wheel and the tool-tip) but only sits there for a few seconds (And this time the steam-play window does pop-up) before the actual game-window opens (with the sandbox option and settings and so on)

I don't know if it is related to the OP's issue, but thought I would just mention it.

My system is this:
Windows 10 Home 64-bit, i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 16384MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
I have .net 4.7.2, which was the only thing in the pinned trouble-faq that seemed to relate to the issue I have.

Anyway, I can get the game running by going through this 'double start-up' procedure, so it's not a big issue for me. But as said; maybe there's something in this post that helps the game-author along in the trouble-shooting :)

[Killrob]

@JEL Nah mate, the first load just takes a lot longer, it would load fine if you just waited for it. The second launch then makes use of the already loaded items, this is possible due to Windows memory management magic, don't ask me how. A second start is significantly quicker than a first one, which on systems with a slow spinny disk can take around 5min.

[JEL]

@killrob; Perhaps. I will try the next time to see if it does come around by itself (windows does have a mind of its own sometimes, so it certainly could be an issue that comes from there and not automation)

[JEL]

Originally posted by Killrob:

@JEL Nah mate, the first load just takes a lot longer, it would load fine if you just waited for it.

I can confirm you are correct :)
It did in fact start after what I thought was a 'hang'.