Doesn't launch

[Darcnexil]

Hello guys.
I never had a technical issue with this game but after the big maj the game just doesn't launch anymore.
Any idea for solve this problem?

[VIVr]

Same issue on my side.

[ninakoru]

Restart steam, worked for me. If doesn't work, verify integrity of files in library>game>properties.

[Darcnexil]

"Restart steam, worked for me."
And it's worked for me too. Thanks.
Happy to see the solution was that simple for once.

[DrWolfsherz]

Neither "Restart Steam" nor "verify integrity of files" did the trick for me. The game does not launch. Win 11 issue maybe?

[ninakoru]

copied from the cannot start game issue thread:

Experienced the same bug (new windows 11 / 12th gen intel system)

launch game > instant crash not even showing ingame menu

what it fixed for me:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/install/dotnet-35-windows

after that it works fine...

[DrWolfsherz]

.Net Framework 3.5 is already installed on my system. Ugh, this is one of those problems where I probably end by just uninstalling the game and forget about it...

Well: Uninstalling and reinstalling the game did the trick. I wonder why checking file integrity did not. Anyways, it is running now :)

[ninakoru]

Yeah, amusingly enough, you restarting and reinstalling solve most of our issues. Tech has always been like that.

[Jubal The Rat]

I'm also having trouble with launching. This is the first time I've installed the game on this PC. I've tried the following:

1) Restarting Steam (and restarted Steam after each of the following steps)
2) Verified .Net 3.5 is enabled
3) Verified game cache
4) Reinstalled

Devs can DM me for Windows Event Viewer log.

[VIVr]

Originally posted by VIVr:

Same issue on my side.

Reinstalling and restarting my PC (& Steam) fixed my issues.

If this helps anyone, I'm on Win10, this was my first installation on this PC, and I've had some savefiles and such in my OneDrive, from the old PC where Endless Space 2 was previously installed.

[Jubal The Rat]

Originally posted by VIVr:

Originally posted by VIVr:

Same issue on my side.

Reinstalling and restarting my PC (& Steam) fixed my issues.

If this helps anyone, I'm on Win10, this was my first installation on this PC, and I've had some savefiles and such in my OneDrive, from the old PC where Endless Space 2 was previously installed.

Restating my PC worked!

[Washeek]

Originally posted by DrWolfsherz:

.Net Framework 3.5 is already installed on my system. Ugh, this is one of those problems where I probably end by just uninstalling the game and forget about it...

Well: Uninstalling and reinstalling the game did the trick. I wonder why checking file integrity did not. Anyways, it is running now :)

.Net can have issues with installation, least of which is not registering system path properly.
Verifying game files doesn't re-install the distributable files, such as any additions of .NET SDK or libraries or whatever. While uninstalling and reinstalling does.
If you have similar issue in the future, one of the steps that can save you time is to go to the local installation folder for that game, find distributables or re-distributable folder and run every executable you find there as an admin and ofc then restart pc, ideally using the restart option, not shut down and start up again especially on more modern windows.

[Cordell]

I had this exact same problem once before. Make sure turn off the beta and select main branch. I spent a lot of time before finding that by accident. Had forgotten I'd opted into it so long ago.