Game won't start after launcher

[Lundivar]

The launcher starts fine, but now all of a sudden the game itself won't launch after. It starts loading, but then just stops and Steam even synchronizes afterwards, and then nothing. This happens in both DX11 & DX12. All was working fine before and now nothing.

Windows 10
Xeon W3520
12GB
R9 280x
Crimson 17.3.2 Drivers

[Heinz234]

Originally posted by TigerStrike:

The mods i made were not compatible anymore. So i had to download PFM and rename the files inside the mods so they didnt run vanila files. Once i did that everthing worked agian. But still having problems with graphics and cpu usage. Last update really screwed a lot of things up. but i can at least now get into the game.

Gotta love people blaming the game for problems caused by the mods they run.

[VoidWolf]

Originally posted by Heinz234:

Originally posted by TigerStrike:

The mods i made were not compatible anymore. So i had to download PFM and rename the files inside the mods so they didnt run vanila files. Once i did that everthing worked agian. But still having problems with graphics and cpu usage. Last update really screwed a lot of things up. but i can at least now get into the game.

Gotta love people blaming the game for problems caused by the mods they run.

Well i wasnt blaming the game in that post. But i will be in this post. Seeing as how before the update everthing worked fine. Even without any mods on at all. I still get crashes/freezes and high cpu usage.Seeing as i have 16gb ram something is messed up. Never had that before. so ya id say thats the games fault. Ive also did eveything they told me to do. Uninstall mods, make sure drivers are up to date, verify game cache. Still same problem. Clearly i am not alone here. many have the same issue. Its also the only game i have any problems with.

[Zyven]

Renaming the Warhammer directory at C:\Users\<userrname>\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer and restarting the game to rebuild it worked for me, Afterwords you may be able to copy your saves into the new folder.

[Lundivar]

Tried that again, and still doesn't work...

[trismigistus]

The solution that worked for me is this...

If I try to launch the game from Steam directly I get the "running" then "syncing" indicators
and then the launch aborts.

Go to

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Total War WARHAMMER\Warhammer.exe"

Right click "Warhammer.exe" and change its properties to execute as "ADMINISTRATOR"

Right click it again and create a desktop shortcut.

When you want to launch the game CLOSE STEAM COMPLETELY first.

Use the new short cut to launch the game which will auto launch STEAM first. Allow the Game popup window to fully load to include getting the warhammer graphics picture to fill the bottom portion of the popup. In other words wait til the mouse cursor stops spinning. If you don't wait you may find yourself accidently trying to launch two seperate instances of the game. Once you know its settled down then click the "Play" button. Just because play button says your drivers may be out of date does not mean the game will not work. I upgraded my drivers, but still get that message.

[Lundivar]

Thanks for trying, but nope doesn't work either.

Tried on a different rig completely and still doesn't work either.

At this point is there anything we can complain to Steam about? I give up in these developers, really the worst.

[trismigistus]

Originally posted by Lundivar:

Thanks for trying, but nope doesn't work either.

Tried on a different rig completely and still doesn't work either.

At this point is there anything we can complain to Steam about? I give up in these developers, really the worst.

I have no idea what I did to finally get it to work. I played hell trying to get this game to launch. I got that "running" message that changes to "synching" for a few seconds. Then nothing.

It would not launch period.

I spent over 12 hours over two days trying everything I could think of. Now part of my problem was in forcing my computer to accept the new updated driver for my particular video card, so that is not the game, or Steam's fault. It also forced me to finally install every single upgrade to Windows 8.1 that I had been putting off. In any case that was the first thing I had to do and the game would still not launch, so even if that was "a" problem; it was only part of the problem.

In the end it finally started working. I'm sure of only one thing. Following the step by step process at this link likely had something to do with my success.
https://support.sega.co.uk/hc/en-us/sections/201944675-Total-War-Warhammer

Hopefully it helps others, It should be "PINNED".

At one point I had been thinking my only option was going to be a complete wipe of my hard drive and reinstall of windows.

[Lundivar]

Went through all the troubleshooting steps on their website, including the lobotomy steps. Even installed this game on a completely different system and neither work.

[Matt]

I was having a similar issue but seemed to have fixed mine by closing MSI afterburner and RivaTuner completely from the system tray. Now total war launcher is launching. Maybe worth checking if you are using similar software and closing it also.

[Exsilium Games]

Im having same issue. Still looking for fix. Have validated files, reinstalled redist and directx.

[trismigistus]

Originally posted by Lundivar:

Went through all the troubleshooting steps on their website, including the lobotomy steps. Even installed this game on a completely different system and neither work.

I wish I could help, but like I said I did so darn many things there is no way for me to narrow down what I did that finally got er working.

I presume you have windows fully upgraded?

I actually had installed my newest graphics driver and it would not work, so I decided to uninstall it and install the previous version of the graphics drivers which was still much newer than the ones I had at first. Its a desperation idea. Best I can do is try and remember the various things I did which included this...


1. Make sure Steam is set to English language
2. RESTART Steam
3. Verify the game cache for Total War Warhammer (through Steam)
4. Repair/reinstall all FIVE of the redistributables (run as administrator)

Total War WARHAMMER\_CommonRedist\DirectX\Jun2010\DXSETUP.exe
Total War WARHAMMER\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2010\vcredist_x64.exe
Total War WARHAMMER\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2010\vcredist_x86.exe
Total War WARHAMMER\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2013\vcredist_x64.exe
Total War WARHAMMER\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2013\vcredist_x86.exe


I also used CCleaner to cleanup my registry.


Last, but not least you will want to check here for information updates on crash issues with the game. https://forums.totalwar.com/categories/crashes

[trismigistus]

Don't get your hopes too high, but this is very interesting....


Loltzer
March 25 edited March 27 in Crashes
Hi,

I have worked all day to start Warhammer, but it does not react...
I have it on Steam and there flickers a text that says "Total War Warhammer - Running", but it lasts for roughly 0.5 sec. It does not even come up as a process in the task manager. Neither the game nor the laucher. After trying to update Win 7, all versions of "vcredist", all my Nvidia drivers. I have tried each and every tip, explanation etc. that has been given online. What can I do now?



Loltzer
March 26
I did it! :) For some reason an error message finally showed up. It seems that however many times I installed the Visual C++ it didn't really finish with all the MSVCP (or something) -files. I sat and spammed the playbutton on Steam and it showed up. It didn't help to install them manualy or automatically, but I found some kind of launcher called "Aio-runtimes" and that fixed it!

Thanks for all the help, I have never used a forum at all before and I am very happy that you endured my angry and tired responses! :D
https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/193158/cant-start-warhammer-no-appdata-folder

[Exsilium Games]

I tried using patch6. that didnt work.

[Exsilium Games]

Reverted to current game version. Reinstalled VC and DX redist. Tried run as admin. Very frustrating. I have no Mods but I do have several expansions/DLC.

Some background - like someone else in this thread my HDD failed last night. Bought a new one, installed the OS, updated the OS, installed drivers for everything, installed Steam and download TWW. Before the failed HDD the game worked fine as you can see from many hours playing the game without a single crash.

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Windows Dir: C:\Windows
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Rank Of Driver: 00E62001

[Exsilium Games]

I set warhammer.exe to run as administrator. Launching the game from exe or from within Steam triggers error:

The application was unable to start corectly (0xc015002). Click OK to close the application.

I did some research and it has to do with something thats needed in the 2005 VC++ redist.