Game Will Not Launch, Period.

[bigmeowster99 (Tim)]

One day, after not playing for a really long time, I decided to play again, except the game simply would not launch. As soon as I hit the "play" button it turned blue saying "stop" exactly as any steam game would. And then about 3 seconds later it reverted back to "play" again with any window opening up. I have already tried reinstalling the game completely, restarting my computer, screwing with dxdiag, running the game as administrator, verifying integrity of game files (several times). Launch options are blank. Nothing has worked.

I'm on the latest version of Windows, with latest Nvidia drivers, as well as a computer that is far beyond the game's minimum system requirements. Any help would be appreciated.

[ladygagafan404]

Specs?
Did you try installing the game on a different drive or checking the folder seeing if there any files that didn't get deleted? Another thing you could do is delete the save file completely from your drive and disable steam cloud. This would make your game launch as a new fresh save file.

Also, by restart your computer you meant, reinstalling windows??? if so, when restarting windows. Did you do a fresh reinstalled? like, booting into windows through a usb device and doing the reinstall that way? because that's best way to do a fresh re install of windows, since you can wiped all your data drives that way.

[Nyami!]

same here, just downloaded the game and got the same problem

[bigmeowster99 (Tim)]

Originally posted by PuppetMaster404:

Specs?
Did you try installing the game on a different drive or checking the folder seeing if there any files that didn't get deleted? Another thing you could do is delete the save file completely from your drive and disable steam cloud. This would make your game launch as a new fresh save file.

Also, by restart your computer you meant, reinstalling windows??? if so, when restarting windows. Did you do a fresh reinstalled? like, booting into windows through a usb device and doing the reinstall that way? because that's best way to do a fresh re install of windows, since you can wiped all your data drives that way.

Specs are AMD Ryzen 5 2600X CPU
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650
32 GB DDR4 RAM
Plenty of hard drive space

As far as restarting my computer, I mean rebooting, not reinstalling Windows. I've considered reinstalling Windows as a solution but it seemed overkill just for one game to work. I'm going to try deleting my save file. (sad cuz I dumped so much time and energy into the game)

[bigmeowster99 (Tim)]

Originally posted by PuppetMaster404:

Specs?
Did you try installing the game on a different drive or checking the folder seeing if there any files that didn't get deleted? Another thing you could do is delete the save file completely from your drive and disable steam cloud. This would make your game launch as a new fresh save file.

Also, by restart your computer you meant, reinstalling windows??? if so, when restarting windows. Did you do a fresh reinstalled? like, booting into windows through a usb device and doing the reinstall that way? because that's best way to do a fresh re install of windows, since you can wiped all your data drives that way.

Right, so I just deleted my save file, and it didn't fix anything.

[ladygagafan404]

Originally posted by bigmeowster99 (Tim):

Originally posted by PuppetMaster404:

Specs?
Did you try installing the game on a different drive or checking the folder seeing if there any files that didn't get deleted? Another thing you could do is delete the save file completely from your drive and disable steam cloud. This would make your game launch as a new fresh save file.

Also, by restart your computer you meant, reinstalling windows??? if so, when restarting windows. Did you do a fresh reinstalled? like, booting into windows through a usb device and doing the reinstall that way? because that's best way to do a fresh re install of windows, since you can wiped all your data drives that way.

Right, so I just deleted my save file, and it didn't fix anything.

Sometimes windows does end up being corrupted, a ton of people end up just reinstalling windows again so they won't have to go through the pain of trouble shooting the problem.

You wanna go into "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\"yourusernumber"\349040\" delete everything in this folder and also disable steam save cloud. If this doesn't fix the issue, than it must be a OS issue since I tested this title with the same Rig as you.

another thing you mentioned is you re installed your GPU drivers, when doing this. Did you try using DDU/display driver uninstaller for a fresh re install of your current drivers? Some times this could be as simple as a NVIDIA driver not installing right. It's very common.
https://youtu.be/QOWPt7MRESE

Here's my personal fav youtuber explaining why you should always use DDU when reinstalling a fresh install of your GPU drivers. https://youtu.be/F8OLhUAPDq0

My current specs for the similar build which is my girlfriend gaming rig, she has a I5-1040F with a GTX 1650 and it runs perfectly with current windows update. I would also recommend updating your windows as well to see if that's also the problem. Since this isn't a hardware issue but seems to be a OS issue.

also, are you running on windows 11?

[bigmeowster99 (Tim)]

Originally posted by PuppetMaster404:

Originally posted by bigmeowster99 (Tim):

Right, so I just deleted my save file, and it didn't fix anything.

Sometimes windows does end up being corrupted, a ton of people end up just reinstalling windows again so they won't have to go through the pain of trouble shooting the problem.

You wanna go into "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\"yourusernumber"\349040\" delete everything in this folder and also disable steam save cloud. If this doesn't fix the issue, than it must be a OS issue since I tested this title with the same Rig as you.

another thing you mentioned is you re installed your GPU drivers, when doing this. Did you try using DDU/display driver uninstaller for a fresh re install of your current drivers? Some times this could be as simple as a NVIDIA driver not installing right. It's very common.
https://youtu.be/QOWPt7MRESE

Here's my personal fav youtuber explaining why you should always use DDU when reinstalling a fresh install of your GPU drivers. https://youtu.be/F8OLhUAPDq0

My current specs for the similar build which is my girlfriend gaming rig, she has a I5-1040F with a GTX 1650 and it runs perfectly with current windows update. I would also recommend updating your windows as well to see if that's also the problem. Since this isn't a hardware issue but seems to be a OS issue.

also, are you running on windows 11?

Yeah, Win 11. Thank you for taking all this time to give me a long post. Next thing I'll try is reinstalling the drivers like Jay says (been watching him for about 10 years). If all else fails, I'll have to find a day where I have enough time to reinstall Windows. Probably can't do it today :\

But thanks again!