Game does not start - MY SOLUTION TO RUN IT ANYWAY!

[HighFlash]

Hello, I bought Risen2, pressed Play on Steam and the game loads into the Menu (Options...and so on).
I firstly noticed in the options / keyboard controls that every key I want to reconfigure is considered as "Numpad_6". Strange Bug, I could remove it my just resetting all bindings with the "E" key. I had to do this twice, then every keystroke is considered correctly.

Pressing now NEW GAME....the Game loading screen appears. An animated compass is shown at the bottom right and music plays also. This scenario will hold on my system for about 10 seconds. After that, the music will stop and the compass stops its animation. The game LOCKED UP, as my taskmanager shows it so. Every time I start the game and choose new game, it locks up!

Steps I've tried until SUCCES:
1) Rebooting PC -> doesn't work.
2) Downloaded PhysX-9.13.0725-SystemSoftware.msi from nVidia and installed it -> doesn't work.
3) Uninstalled physx, installed the file from step 2 again -> doesn't work.
4) Choosed repair on the install file from step 2, it says all is ok -> doesn't work.
5) Although I have a new PhysX now installed, I tried to "over install" the PhysX that come along with the game (File: Steam\SteamApps\common\Risen 2\redist\PhysX\PhysX_SystemSoftware.exe), after a while it just says "text" and won't continue. -> doesn't work.
6) In Windows Explorer, rightklicking the executable (Steam\SteamApps\common\Risen 2\system\Risen2.exe), setting in compatibility options: Run as administrator -> doesn't work. (As it won't work, I'm unsetting this option again!)
7) In the Steam Library, rightclicking on the game's name "Risen 2 - Dark Waters", choosing Properties, then choosed the tab Local Files, after that I choosed the option Check for Errors. Final message was, that it could not check all files. 1 File is uncheckable and so it downloaded 1 little file again (I'm sorry I don't know exactly which file this was...).

AND GUESS WHAT???

NOW THE GAME RUNS FINE !!

Hope this helps for some other people as well :)

PS: Sorry for my grammar and / or spelling mistakes, I'm not a native English person. :-)

My System is:

AMD Phenom 9850 QuadCore 2.5 GHz (I kow, it's an old CPU^^)
8 GB RAM
nVidia Geforce GTX 670 2 GB RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

[Tiny Trees]

That was a cool fix. Well done for posting it. (Mine runs OK, but I was curious so I read this.)

[dragonbloodcult]

Your point 7 >> (...) 1 File is uncheckable and so it downloaded 1 little file again (...) << or Check for Errors does not work too! I had tried all possibilities again and again but the game Risen 2 crash again and again. If the second video "on the beach with Patty..." starts crash always my whole system and I must start them again !! Can anybody of you say me why!?

[HighFlash]

I'm sorry @dragonbloodcult.
I am not experiencing your problem. Maybe it has something to do with playing the videos in the game? Could BINK Video Player be the problem? Many games use Bink Tools for playing videos. But I don't know, if Risen 2 does. The fact, that you actually have played the game at least for 1 minute (I assume) points out, that you do have another problem, than the above one described. Therefore I have no solution, unfortunately.
Maybe it will help if you install the latest video card driver, if you have not done so before.
Sorry man, I don't know :-(

[dragonbloodcult]

Hello HighFlash! Thanks that you tries to help me. I had installed all the current / latest drivers versions for my hardware and software but the game Risen 2 still don´t works. I still don´t know why. The support of steam is sh** ... But thanks for your support. ;) I´ll search now after others solutions.

[Chronomaly]

I've tried everything in your list and the game still doesn't start. I don't even get a splash screen, menu, or anything. When I click play nothing at all happens.
When trying to run the game from the .exe's location I get an error message that "PhysXLoader.dll is missing" even though I have the latest PhysX drivers installed.

I'm running a nVidia GTX780 Ti in Windows 7 64bit at 1920x1080 resolution.

[Tiny Trees]

@ Ch-un-ained,

I have seen something similar to that before. I know you said you have the latest PhysX, but this is what I did. Google PhysX. Download the latest version from Nvidia. (Don't rely on your graphics drivers having the latest PhysX. Also if your PhysX has got just a little corrupted it still looks installed to the PC.) Anyway when you have it downloaded, click it. An installer opens and asks what you want to do, 'Install', 'Repair', 'Remove'. Go with remove. Then after it has been removed, use the same PhysX.exe installer, and this time choose install. Try that. It's only a 5 min job so don't be put off.

[Chronomaly]

引用自 Tiny Trees：

@ Ch-un-ained,

I have seen something similar to that before. I know you said you have the latest PhysX, but this is what I did. Google PhysX. Download the latest version from Nvidia. (Don't rely on your graphics drivers having the latest PhysX. Also if your PhysX has got just a little corrupted it still looks installed to the PC.) Anyway when you have it downloaded, click it. An installer opens and asks what you want to do, 'Install', 'Repair', 'Remove'. Go with remove. Then after it has been removed, use the same PhysX.exe installer, and this time choose install. Try that. It's only a 5 min job so don't be put off.

Thanks.
After reading your post I decided to try and manually remove the drivers, but from the control panel. That revealed that the PhysX files were missing even though it listed as installed.
I ran the PhysX installer and removed the drivers like you suggested, then reinstalled them and now it works.
I'm guessing it was those R331 drivers they released a while back that crashed my system upon every install attempt that messed things up.

[dragonbloodcult]

I have the latest version of PhysX downloaded manually cause the game software of Risen 2 has a bug and the file of PhysX is still missing ( by steam too ) ... But also with the current PhysX version there are no way to play this game ... :-/ I think now the reason for that is my old version of DirectX. I think that I can´t use the latest version of DirectX 9.1c under WinXP. That´s really annoying!! :-(((

[Tiny Trees]

@ Ch-un-ained, Yes that sounds like it. When it happened with me, I had been changing versions of the graphics drivers lots. (It was because of the trouble with Nvidia drivers. I am now settled with 314.xx.) Same thing too, that it was uninstallable from the control panel. Good news then, glad you're OK. (I had to do it for Metro 2033.)

@dragonbloodcult, it looks like you need the same thing. I don't know about the DirectX versions that run with XP, so you'll have to dig about on the internet. I would try using the PhysX.exe that you downloaded: just to see what happens. It can't hurt to have the latest version installed if you didn't do it allready. You have to use the PhysX.exe to uninstall your current (possibly corrupted) version of PhysX. There seems to be no other way.

[dragonbloodcult]

@ Tiny Trees, ok thanks for your help. I will try this again and make some changes in my graphics card options ... maybe I´ll find the problem or other solutions to use this game. ;-)

[Fel]

Thanks for the post - fixed my problem!

[Cygnus11]

Thank you so much for this post. This fixed my problem also.

[Green⚡]

GOD, Thank you so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ much. This fixed my problem

[Bobek]

Thank you so much, I was ready to throw this game away.

[Jarods18]

引用自 HighFlash：

.......In the Steam Library, rightclicking on the game's name "Risen 2 - Dark Waters", choosing Properties, then choosed the tab Local Files, after that I choosed the option Check for Errors. Final message was, that it could not check all files. 1 File is uncheckable and so it downloaded 1 little file again (I'm sorry I don't know exactly which file this was...).
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

i have had the same message with windows 10 and the file is called ' PhysXloader.dll' , which has been successfully re-downloaded.... but the game never worked for me....