Game crashes shortly after startup

[Killer Ryno]

I start up the game and get the volition and high voltage screens and after, nothing, just blackness. Then the game stops responding. Im running a pretty high end rig, running mostly everything at max. Ive verified the cache. Tried restarting my comp. My drivers are up to date. I really dont know what it could be and dont really want to have to reinstall it.

[Uueerdo]

In fairness, no one is going to be able to help you without listing your specs or what "everything" covers.
Plenty of people think "high end" is whatever the sales guy at Best Buy told them, and "everything at max" means web games and low requirement MMOs.

[Killer Ryno]

No need to be condescending and rude.

Processor: i7-4770K QuadCore
Graphics: 2 Geforce GTX 780s SLI
Ram: 16 gigs DDR3

[Uueerdo]

It was not my intention to be condescending or rude. In fact, I was trying to be polite about it.
But yeah, you've definitely got the specs for it and then some. Have you tried disabling SLI and/or nVidia Surround (if enabled, my only nvidia card is a 780m, so no experience with surround).

[[V] UncleSam]

have you tried upening the display.ini and setting fullscreen=false

[criggie]

It happened to me as well ..i right clicked the .exe file went to properties then compatability checked run as admin, then opened it from exe file problem gone...for me anyway

[Uueerdo]

Originally posted by criggie:

It happened to me as well ..i right clicked the .exe file went to properties then compatability checked run as admin, then opened it from exe file problem gone...for me anyway

To install, I had to run Steam as admin; not just under an admin permitted account but "Run as administrator". This is the first Steam-installed game in a long time that I've had to do that for, so I wouldn't be surprised if it might be required to avoid other issues.

[criggie]

I run steam the same way but still have to do that for a ♥♥♥♥ ton of games and it seems to always work I know it sounds odd since your already running under admin...but try it..

[[V] UncleSam]

Uueerdo did the "run as admin" work around fix your problem?

[Uueerdo]

Originally posted by V UncleSam:

Uueerdo did the "run as admin" work around fix your problem?

The only problems I've had so far is the install wouldn't finish until I ran steam as admin when trying to install, and unintelligible sound unless I set my system audio specifically to headphones. Once I got it installed, and the system sound settings changed, it ran fine (if underperforming). But I haven't tried to run it outside of "as admin" (only had a couple of hours for gaming since it came out) so I can't say whether I would have had other issues without running it that way.

[Killer Ryno]

I tried running steam and the game as admin and the problem was still there. I tried disabling SLI, but that didnt work. When I go into the gamefiles I cant find any display.ini that has options in it. I find a display file but it just says that it will be rewritten whenever options are changed.

[lavosslayer]

I'm having the exact same issue. THis happens whether I'm in fullscreen or windowed.

Intel i5 4960k
16gb RAM
Nvidia 670 GTX

[hotdog]

Not sure if this is even helpful, but i'll post it anyway. I had a problem with the SR3/4 where the game would only launch on my C(root) drive. I dont have this problem now, just wanted to share.

[Killer Ryno]

Oh wow thank you 2Fron. I actually tried reinstalling it onto my C drive and not my other harddrive and what do you know it works. Interesting, anyone know why this is?

[Uueerdo]

It could be due to folder permissions.

[hotdog]

Glad to be of some help. I'd love to know why it works that way.