PLEASE HELP .. game is crashing on startup

[DJ_K_DJ]

Greetings all ...

am starting to face this weird issue with some of the old fromsoftware games

- didnt test all other old games from other companies so i cant tell if it is general thing or just those ones -

i just finished ELDEN RING yesterday and thought about re-visiting old titles to make comparisons and found that none of them work for me and all are crashing on startup

no menus popup nothing .. just black screen then back to steam

this never happened before and as i said it didnt happen with ELDEN RING that i just finished

and i belive i even tested one of them before with no issues so just wondering if that is related to any updates on nvidia or windows

i have all things updated " windows - graphic drivers etc "

i have clean uninstall drivers .. same issue .. no fix

i have the latest and greatest hardware so i am 100% it is not the issue

i have nothing overclocked .. just the RAM to XMP tweaked

and before anyone suggested anything about that i tried to changed it to " Auto " And even tried "XMP 2 "

same issue so i dont belive its even ram thing

hope someone have any solution or explaination to whats happenening

and hope someone tried them out to see if it is happening to just me or everyone

[redeyes]

so ds1 ds2 and ds3 arnt working? hmmmm, try setting a graphics profile for them maybe it isnt registering your graphics card, just to rule that out, you navigate to watever graphics control panel you have and make a profile for it

[redeyes]

also u can try allowing it to pass ur firewall maybe lol, this guy has a fast vid on how to do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33T1BerInfA&t=3s

[hawklaser]

I just recently had similar happen to me. Prior install of the game on PC that was working fine, and yet when revisiting the game get white/black screens on startup then crash.

What solved it for me was a fresh reinstall of the game, and since had a power outage during the reinstall, I verified the files afterwards. And works fine now for me.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if a windows 'update' is a cause behind some problems like this. I've had a number of times software used to launch fine, and suddenly not want to launch properly, and when go to restart the PC to see if that might solve it only to see there is a pending windows 'update' that is required. Thats not even mentioning possible planned obsolescence, which I suspect is something Microsoft does in some 'updates' to help push people to newer versions of Windows.

[DJ_K_DJ]

well .. first of all thanks for suggesting these things guys
ill try the firewall thing although i already did it with my KASPER ANTI-VIRUS
but ill try to disable that one to see if the windows one work
about the updates .. i am regularly checking every single update coming either for GPU or windows .. so i alreally belive that all of them are up to date
hopefully someone come up with explaination for this

NOTE : i just revisited ELDEN RING and ARMORED CORE 6
both working fine

its just those old ones i mentioned from software games

[redeyes]

iv also heard of people having controller issues and keyboard issues causing this
try launching the game with only keyboard and mouse, then unplug and replug your keyboard lol

[redeyes]

another thing that might fix it is: Replace the GraphicsConfig.xml File with a New One, you can google how to do that

[DJ_K_DJ]

ill check that out .. yesterday a new driver came and i installed it clean
still no use
weird thing is .. it only happens with very few games
rest are just working like nothing happening