I think this game messed up my PC.

[RainbowFrogger]

Can't get it to run right. At first it would just crash on the home screen of the game. Now it crashes on startup and since I have installed the game I have been having a hit or miss ability to turn my PC on. It like 50% of the time says something like "no boot found, select device to boot." I am very upset I paid 70$ for this game. It won't run, I am past the refund period and my computer is messed up on top of this. I need a solution or an exception for a refund. I think it was the anticheat messing with my registry that has caused boot issues. I have never experienced this issue before but now it is happening OVER AND OVER. Multiple other things are not working right too now when the actual PC is turned on.

[dr46onfusion]

Originally posted by RainbowFrogger:

Can't get it to run right. At first it would just crash on the home screen of the game. Now it crashes on startup and since I have installed the game I have been having a hit or miss ability to turn my PC on. It like 50% of the time says something like "no boot found, select device to boot." I am very upset I paid 70$ for this game. It won't run, I am past the refund period and my computer is messed up on top of this. I need a solution or an exception for a refund. I think it was the anticheat messing with my registry that has caused boot issues. I have never experienced this issue before but now it is happening OVER AND OVER. Multiple other things are not working right too now when the actual PC is turned on.

Why are you getting those errors?

Do you have a dx12 compatible GPU and using Windows 11 or something?

Because UE5 games are pretty picky about the hardware you run them on, the only way to not run them on said hardware is to use dx11 modes or something, but EAC will 100% halt you from trying to do things like DXVK vulkan mods for dx11 so you can run the game on older GPUs.

List your hardware specs, and maybe run a check on your system for OS corruption?

Open cmd.exe as administrator and type "sfc /scannow" and it'll check the integrity of your operating system.

[RainbowFrogger]

I did the scan like you said! It said it found corrupt files and fixed them. I'm honestly not sure about the GPU, but the error before on the menu screen was memory overload, and the crashes on startup say GPU dump. My PC is starting correctly now with your help. I will try to figure out how to check my specs. I tried downloading the drivers after I started having the boot issues but that didn't fix the problem so I think you may be right the GPU just may be uncompatible even though it said compatible on the store page. I am not very good with computers so I appreciate your help so much. I was panicking my PC wasn't turning on right but you fixed it. <3

[weiss]

Originally posted by RainbowFrogger:

Can't get it to run right. At first it would just crash on the home screen of the game. Now it crashes on startup and since I have installed the game I have been having a hit or miss ability to turn my PC on. It like 50% of the time says something like "no boot found, select device to boot." I am very upset I paid 70$ for this game. It won't run, I am past the refund period and my computer is messed up on top of this. I need a solution or an exception for a refund. I think it was the anticheat messing with my registry that has caused boot issues. I have never experienced this issue before but now it is happening OVER AND OVER. Multiple other things are not working right too now when the actual PC is turned on.

i can tell you that the start up crash is normal for games which use EAC.

its because EAC initializes and then waits that the game starts.
if this needs too long, even if the game manages to start will it:
-close in an instant without any error message
-you get an access violation
-you get the nfl shipping executable error.

all 3 are related to EAC waiting too long and closed itself which causes that the game gets halted, resulting into these crashes.

the solutuion is easy.
you get a better PC, so the game gets started up in a timely manner.
or
you remove EAC (there are tricks for this which i wont write down here since mods "can" poke peoples for it) however, removing EAC may results into no more crashes but you wont be able to play online with friends.

i have a bit older PC (about 5 years old) and when i start the game crashes it usually once because of the inpatience of EAC but, then it works after with the 2nd try.

that your game crashes on the start menu has then other reasons. probably things like fusion already mentitioned.

fact is; your game will crash on startup to 100% if your PC needs too long to initialize fantasy life i after EAC says on the bottom right "waiting for game." if your PC needs longer then about 20 seconds to launch fantasy life i will it mostlikely crash due to EAC shutting down because it thinks there is no game. so, you need to try again until your PC manages to start fantasy life i within EAC´s patience XD.

[Blehh.....]

Originally posted by weiss:

Originally posted by RainbowFrogger:

Can't get it to run right. At first it would just crash on the home screen of the game. Now it crashes on startup and since I have installed the game I have been having a hit or miss ability to turn my PC on. It like 50% of the time says something like "no boot found, select device to boot." I am very upset I paid 70$ for this game. It won't run, I am past the refund period and my computer is messed up on top of this. I need a solution or an exception for a refund. I think it was the anticheat messing with my registry that has caused boot issues. I have never experienced this issue before but now it is happening OVER AND OVER. Multiple other things are not working right too now when the actual PC is turned on.

i can tell you that the start up crash is normal for games which use EAC.

its because EAC initializes and then waits that the game starts.
if this needs too long, even if the game manages to start will it:
-close in an instant without any error message
-you get an access violation
-you get the nfl shipping executable error.

all 3 are related to EAC waiting too long and closed itself which causes that the game gets halted, resulting into these crashes.

the solutuion is easy.
you get a better PC, so the game gets started up in a timely manner.
or
you remove EAC (there are tricks for this which i wont write down here since mods "can" poke peoples for it) however, removing EAC may results into no more crashes but you wont be able to play online with friends.

i have a bit older PC (about 5 years old) and when i start the game crashes it usually once because of the inpatience of EAC but, then it works after with the 2nd try.

that your game crashes on the start menu has then other reasons. probably things like fusion already mentitioned.

fact is; your game will crash on startup to 100% if your PC needs too long to initialize fantasy life i after EAC says on the bottom right "waiting for game." if your PC needs longer then about 20 seconds to launch fantasy life i will it mostlikely crash due to EAC shutting down because it thinks there is no game. so, you need to try again until your PC manages to start fantasy life i within EAC´s patience XD.

how to start without eac?

[Akasha <3 Somats]

Originally posted by RainbowFrogger:

I did the scan like you said! It said it found corrupt files and fixed them. I'm honestly not sure about the GPU, but the error before on the menu screen was memory overload, and the crashes on startup say GPU dump. My PC is starting correctly now with your help. I will try to figure out how to check my specs. I tried downloading the drivers after I started having the boot issues but that didn't fix the problem so I think you may be right the GPU just may be uncompatible even though it said compatible on the store page. I am not very good with computers so I appreciate your help so much. I was panicking my PC wasn't turning on right but you fixed it. <3

Honestly windows has been having major issues the last 2 weeks with their updates and it could totally be them. They have had to push out 2 emergency updates my husbands PC blue screened right after updating windows so sometimes it's not hardware and just crappy Windows.

The game crashes on start up for me and then sometimes 3 to 4 times after I launch it has UE5 crashing error's and this didn't start for me til their recent update or windows. I am able to play eventually though.

Click on the Windows Start button, then click on Settings (the gear icon). In the Settings menu, click on System. Scroll down and click on About

That will have all your specs in there you could list.

[dr46onfusion]

Originally posted by Blehh.....:

Originally posted by weiss:

i can tell you that the start up crash is normal for games which use EAC.

its because EAC initializes and then waits that the game starts.
if this needs too long, even if the game manages to start will it:
-close in an instant without any error message
-you get an access violation
-you get the nfl shipping executable error.

all 3 are related to EAC waiting too long and closed itself which causes that the game gets halted, resulting into these crashes.

the solutuion is easy.
you get a better PC, so the game gets started up in a timely manner.
or
you remove EAC (there are tricks for this which i wont write down here since mods "can" poke peoples for it) however, removing EAC may results into no more crashes but you wont be able to play online with friends.

i have a bit older PC (about 5 years old) and when i start the game crashes it usually once because of the inpatience of EAC but, then it works after with the 2nd try.

that your game crashes on the start menu has then other reasons. probably things like fusion already mentitioned.

fact is; your game will crash on startup to 100% if your PC needs too long to initialize fantasy life i after EAC says on the bottom right "waiting for game." if your PC needs longer then about 20 seconds to launch fantasy life i will it mostlikely crash due to EAC shutting down because it thinks there is no game. so, you need to try again until your PC manages to start fantasy life i within EAC´s patience XD.

how to start without eac?

Look at your game files, especially that ini file and read it carefully to know how it works, then just 'change' the path to another file.

[RainbowFrogger]

Thanks to everyone who helped. Couldn't get it running though even with the suggestions. Talked to Steam support and they issued a refund. Doing the scan thing fixed my PC. At least I'm at net neutral. Gonna buy it for my Switch instead. Appreciate all y'all.

[Viscera]

I actually had a Boot Drive failure recently but didn't think much of it other than my SSD had bit the dust, now I wonder if it's related

Same error "No boot drive found" and being told to select a new one