Gothic 2 will NOT start at all

[HexeR]

It says I'm ingame but that is literally it, there is no icon that pops up, there's no steam loading icon after I click it, nothing, just says I'm in game and then I'm forced to exit through ctrl. alt. delete and it's really starting to annoy me.

I've tried running in compatibility mode, running as admin, turning off steam overlay, nothing works.

I have windows 7 64 bit btw, with a 500 series Nvidia graphics card.

[OmniNegro]

I had this with my boxed copy. I never found a solution. :(

[HexeR]

If you open windows task manager and end rundl32 then it should start

[OmniNegro]

I tried everything possible at the time. I finally gave up and gave the boxed copy away.

When it was happening, the process of the game itself stayed at 100% of one CPU core. It never took more memory and this was past the VDFS stage, so it was simply not going to load.

[R]

did you try running it in compatibility mode?

[OmniNegro]

With all due respect, what part of "everything possible" did you fail to understand?

Direct answer, yes. I tried every last compatibility mode. None made any difference.

And for reference, rundll32 is required for it to start. Ending it works for some and causes an instant crash for others.

[Yellow Goat]

I had the same issue too. Finally got it working by exiting the logitech setpoint app from my taskbar. Bit of a pain in the arse but at least the game runs fine now.

[Morgannin]

Currently having this issue. I used to have problems running it while Google Chrome was open, but I don't use Chrome anymore. Even closing all the programs I feel safe closing doesn't allow the game to run. It appears in the Processes tab of the Task Manager, and as far as Steam is concerned the game is running, but it never comes up.

[Manu]

Same problem here,
Closing "Logitech Setpoint" solved the problem

Thanks OJ_287

[Morgannin]

After taking a gamble, closing all "rundll" processes solved the issue without causing any obvious side-effects. So I guess this is a safe thing to do.