S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat wont start

[SNIPERWOLF]

so i installed the game it worked fine the 1st time but when i went to play it again it dosnt load up at all but steam says i am playing it...... anyone know a fix?

[him]

I have the same problem atm, if you crash the process and restart it over and over again. It took me 5 tries to get it started but then it crashed again :(

[him]

Just crashed again :(

[SoldierScar]

I have a similiar problem...When i start the game, after 5 or 10 secs in menu it will crash...it happens only since today, ffs..already re-installed the game and it still hapens..

[SoldierScar]

To La Flama Blanca, try to delete user.cfg (Its somewhere in Stalker directory) and disable steam overlay in stalker call of pripyat, its in properties...

[SNIPERWOLF]

my problem is fixed all i had to do was crack the game to play it

[digimortal81]

yah i am now having issues getting it to run lol

[digimortal81]

if anyone cares here is bug report.............i'll troubleshoot as the day goes by............




* Detected CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz [GenuineIntel], F6/M10/S5, 3800.00 mhz, 24-clk 'rdtsc'
* CPU features: RDTSC, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, MONITOR/MWAIT, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2
* CPU threads: 8

Initializing File System...
using fs-ltx fsgame.ltx
FS: 40042 files cached 29 archives, 8428Kb memory used.
Init FileSystem 1.587923 sec
'xrCore' build 3967, Dec 14 2009

EH: C3F91E466048C9CFDE405970F8B6A87B

-----loading e:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\stalker call of pripyat\gamedata\configs\system.ltx
-----loading e:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\stalker call of pripyat\gamedata\configs\system.ltx
Initializing Engine...
Starting INPUT device...
Loading DLL: xrRender_R2.dll
Loading DLL: xrRender_R3.dll
refCount:m_pAdapter 1
Loading DLL: xrRender_R4.dll
command line
Executing config-script "user.ltx"...
! Cannot open script file [user.ltx]
Loading DLL: xrRender_R1.dll
Loading DLL: xrGame.dll
* [win32]: free[3940376 K], reserved[114280 K], committed[139584 K]
* [ D3D ]: textures[0 K]
* [x-ray]: crt heap[14395 K], process heap[6879 K], game lua[0 K], render[0 K]
* [x-ray]: economy: strings[8027 K], smem[0 K]
SOUND: OpenAL: enumerate devices...
SOUND: OpenAL: EnumerationExtension Present
dir[0]=E:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Stalker Call of Pripyat\bin\
dir[1]=E:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Stalker Call of Pripyat\
dir[2]=E:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Stalker Call of Pripyat\bin\
dir[3]=C:\Windows\system32\
CleanDeviceSpecifierList
CleanDeviceSpecifierList Generic Hardware
devices Generic Hardware
SOUND: OpenAL: system default SndDevice name is Speaker (SB X-Fi Go! Pro)
SOUND: OpenAL: All available devices:
1. Generic Software, Spec Version 1.1 eax[0] efx[no] xram[no]
2. Generic Software, Spec Version 1.1 eax[0] efx[no] xram[no]
3. Speaker (SB X-Fi Go! Pro), Spec Version 1.1 (default) eax[5] efx[no] xram[no]
Executing config-script "e:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\stalker call of pripyat\gamedata\configs\default_controls.ltx"...
[e:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\stalker call of pripyat\gamedata\configs\default_controls.ltx] successfully loaded.
Executing config-script "user.ltx"...
! Cannot open script file [user.ltx]
SOUND: Selected device is Speaker (SB X-Fi Go! Pro)
* sound: EAX 2.0 extension: present
* sound: EAX 2.0 deferred: present
* sound : cache: 65537 kb, 4856 lines, 13820 bpl
Starting RENDER device...
* GPU [vendor:1002]-[device:6718]: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
* GPU driver: 8.17.10.1191
* CREATE: DeviceREF: 1
* Vertex Processor: PURE HARDWARE
* Texture memory: 3810 M
* DDI-level: 9.0
* GPU shading: vs(fffe0300/3.0/30), ps(ffff0300/3.0/30)
* GPU vertex cache: unrecognized, 16
* NVAPI is missing.
* Starting rendering as 2-GPU.
* DVB created: 1536K
* DIB created: 512K
* distortion: used, dev(30),need(14)
* color_mapping: used, dev(30),need(14)
* SSample: 1024x768
compiling shader postprocess
compiling shader postprocess_d
compiling shader postprocess_cm_pre
* SSample: enabled
compiling shader particle_distort
compiling shader particle
compiling shader particle
- r__tf_aniso 8
- r1_tf_mipbias 0.
compiling shader simple_color
compiling shader portal
compiling shader editor
compiling shader sky2
compiling shader sky2
compiling shader clouds
compiling shader clouds
Starting engine...

FATAL ERROR

[error]Expression : fatal error
[error]Function : CInifile::r_section
[error]File : D:\prog_repository\sources\trunk\xrCore\Xr_ini.cpp
[error]Line : 502
[error]Description : <no expression>
[error]Arguments : Can't open section 'none'. Please attach [*.ini_log] file to your bug report


stack trace:

[MayhemMike]

same problem here on my Win8 x64 machine.

My workaround:
set the Stalker-COP.exe to compatibility with Win XP Service Pack 3 + run as admin
First run will start the xrengine.exe (don't kill it) simply run Stalker-COP.exe a second time and the game should start