Wont even launch, anyone? (Fixed) solution below

[david.kahil1]

I have no idea what is wrong, i downloaded it from steam. i have a 3090, i7 12700k, 32 GB DDR5 ram and it is on an m2 drive. has anyone else had problems with the game not launching. I click it and does nothing, says play for a second then goes back to rest. It sounds like something is not there, maybe a dll idk. I verified all files and downloaded it again still nothing.

I REINSTALLED C++ AND IT WORKS NOW

[hotmatrixx]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/356190/discussions/0/1696048786956453782/

sorry right this minute I do not know; but I do know that you should really persist until you get it going; it's an incredible game.

I also very highly reccomend Shadow Of Mordor first, if you haven't played that yet - some of the story and setup carries over, but it's not 'huge' if you don't. So do the abilities - Shadow Of Mordor introduces them to you much more cleanly; SoW lets you get them pretty quickly; you start with some of the better skills that you unlock pretty late from Mordor - namely Shadow Climb / Leap

[hotmatrixx]

as far as your specific issues are concerned, I really wish I could help you. I THINK I had issues until I launched the WB client from inside the game files; I THINK it was for this game. But all that might be changed now, as they sunsetted their online connection a long while back.

[hotmatrixx]

here's one suggestion I found:
Go to Documents\WB Games\Shadow Of War and then open up the file called render.cfg and at the very bottom set "Windowed" to "2.000000" Which sets it to Borderless.

[Gyro]

not sure. It may take a while after clicking play for it to boot up, other than that, guides/issues on forums online are probably your best bet

[andrewj100]

its a bug that happens what i do is verify games files if that dont work uninstall and reinstall

[hotmatrixx]

Originally posted by david.kahil1:

I have no idea what is wrong, i downloaded it from steam. i have a 3090, i7 12700k, 32 GB DDR5 ram and it is on an m2 drive. has anyone else had problems with the game not launching. I click it and does nothing, says play for a second then goes back to rest. It sounds like something is not there, maybe a dll idk. I verified all files and downloaded it again still nothing.

I REINSTALLED C++ AND IT WORKS NOW

Nice. Yeah I'd forgotten about that. It usually has 'some' kind of popup that gives you a clue that library is 'missing'.
It's caused by the game sub-installer thinking that it needs to install the libraries itself; it checks for a specific version and if it doesn't find it, it fails - when that version is covered/included by another. When you run the C++ installer included in the Game Package files, that adds it's specific version number to the 'installed' list in the Windows registry, which the game 'now' detects as installed, even though it was, the entire time.

Glad you found the solution, I'm just adding a bit of extra context about what's happening under the hood.