Game just won't launch

[Ford Prefect]

Everytime I go to launch the game, the launcher comes up nice and fast. I can move the cursor around and it highlights whatever it's over, and I can change the settings. However, when I go press "Start", my cursor starts to load, then... nothing. At all. I can look in my downloads and it says that I'm playing, then immediately goes to whatever it says when it's not being played but ready to play. I've verified game cache twice, reinstalled twice, updated drivers and even launch from Nvidia. What is going on and how do I fix this?

[Grey Bar0n]

My game just started doing this. I've played for about 3 hours. Now it won't launch. Verified files and ran as admin. Still does not load.

[corayson]

Same problem

[ssgoldus]

There hasn't been any official word from the Devs whether or not they are even looking in the direction of a huge number of people that can't even launch the game. This is a common problem that affects a very large amount of people.

[IndyKiller82]

After installing the game 3 times after experiencing this issue, I made the DirectX exe that is in the Mafia 3 folder was installed and I also made sure the vc_redist files were installed as well. I think my issue with the game not starting was the DirectX for whatever reason but now my game runs and I can actually play.

[Kurbe [DS]]

I had the same Problem but i solved the Problem with deleting Visual C++ x64 x86 from my Computer. after that i restartet my pc and downloaded the newest Visual C++ from the Internet and installed it and now everything runs fine.

[Grey Bar0n]

*Broken fix. Mafia 3 will no longer launch. The “Microsoft Visual C++” was not a permanent fix.*

This is an inconvenience but it fixed the problem for me. The game launches and plays now.

I uninstalled everything that had “Microsoft Visual C++” in the title and reinstalled Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015.

Rebooted my computer and the game launched with no problem.

[Ford Prefect]

I fixed my own problem by going to the vc_redist in Mafia III and running the program, selecting to repair issues.

[Don~Mohnke]

Originally posted by CenterMan Skye:

This is an inconvenience but it fixed the problem for me. The game launches and plays now.

I uninstalled everything that had “Microsoft Visual C++” in the title and reinstalled Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015.

Rebooted my computer and the game launched with no problem.

Does that include removing all previous MVC++ installations prior to 2015?

[Wayne]

Hi Pyro,

Thank you for contacting 2K Support, and I'm sorry for the delayed response.

I'm sorry to hear that you're unable to play Mafia III as the game is crashing upon start-up. I want to genuinely apologize that it was not listed in advance that you could not run the game if you have a Phenom 2 processor and that SSE 4.1 is not supported.

I want to thank you for alerting us about the issue you are experiencing. Because of the work of diligent players like you, we've been able to collect enough information about this issue to notify the development team, and they are currently working toward a solution. Unfortunately, we do not have visibility on their progress here in customer support, and so we don't have a timeline for a fix to be implemented. That said, please follow us on Twitter (@MafiaGame), as this is where new info as well as upcoming patches will be announced.

If you have any further questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to let us know!

Thanks,

Jack M.
2K Support

[Grey Bar0n]

Originally posted by UHOHJR:

Originally posted by CenterMan Skye:

This is an inconvenience but it fixed the problem for me. The game launches and plays now.

I uninstalled everything that had “Microsoft Visual C++” in the title and reinstalled Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015.

Rebooted my computer and the game launched with no problem.

Does that include removing all previous MVC++ installations prior to 2015?

I did unintall all previous versions. I haven't seen any negative issues. I've been testing other games to make sure everything is ok.

[Don~Mohnke]

Originally posted by CenterMan Skye:

Originally posted by UHOHJR:

Does that include removing all previous MVC++ installations prior to 2015?

I did unintall all previous versions. I haven't seen any negative issues. I've been testing other games to make sure everything is ok.

Interesting, so I suppose I shall give that a try. But, so far has it run well for you? No crashing so far?

[Grey Bar0n]

Originally posted by UHOHJR:

Originally posted by CenterMan Skye:

I did unintall all previous versions. I haven't seen any negative issues. I've been testing other games to make sure everything is ok.

Interesting, so I suppose I shall give that a try. But, so far has it run well for you? No crashing so far?

DAMN. Broken fix. Mafia 3 will no longer launch. The “Microsoft Visual C++” was not a permanent fix for me.

[Don~Mohnke]

Originally posted by CenterMan Skye:

Originally posted by UHOHJR:

Interesting, so I suppose I shall give that a try. But, so far has it run well for you? No crashing so far?

DAMN. Broken fix. Mafia 3 will no longer launch. The “Microsoft Visual C++” was not a permanent fix for me.

Welp. RIP. We'll have to wait on a patch from them to fix this.

[LOC]

Originally posted by ⎛⎝Pyro⎠⎞:

Hi Pyro,

Thank you for contacting 2K Support, and I'm sorry for the delayed response.

I'm sorry to hear that you're unable to play Mafia III as the game is crashing upon start-up. I want to genuinely apologize that it was not listed in advance that you could not run the game if you have a Phenom 2 processor and that SSE 4.1 is not supported.

I want to thank you for alerting us about the issue you are experiencing. Because of the work of diligent players like you, we've been able to collect enough information about this issue to notify the development team, and they are currently working toward a solution. Unfortunately, we do not have visibility on their progress here in customer support, and so we don't have a timeline for a fix to be implemented. That said, please follow us on Twitter (@MafiaGame), as this is where new info as well as upcoming patches will be announced.

If you have any further questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to let us know!

Thanks,

Jack M.
2K Support

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, No Manr's Sky ♥♥♥♥ all over again. Great! Us ancient PC players are boned yet again because we can't (or won't) have the highest end gear it seems! Yay!

[Psychocaniac]

ok heres how i fixed this for windows 7...1 download this update. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49093. 2 extract it to desktop using 7z into a folder called update. 3 open cmd prompt as admin. 4 runs this command DISM.exe /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\update\Windows6.1-KB2999226-x64.cab. (Replace USERNAME with your account name.) 5 for 64bit windows 7 download http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/5/e/85edb843-93af-4daa-ad1e-c33dfa95b2ea/vc_redist.x64.exe .6 uninstall it then run it again and install it. 7. Launch mafia.exe game works