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[Dr.Doctor]

I had noticed a few games don't play well with Riva Tuner Statistics Server.

TURN THE "APPLICATION DETECTION LEVEL" TO "NONE".

It's weird. I don't know why. There are a few 2D games that have done this (Rivals of Aether, for instance). I just include it as part of my 'game crashes on startup troubleshoot' routine.

So if you have Riva Tuner, try disabling it!

[Dr.Doctor]

And for all the yakkity yack about releasing broken games, blah blah blah...

This is a small dev team. This is the PC platform. They can't have every damn possible PC combination / build / setup to throw this game at in QC, OK? If big companies like EA, or whatever, releases broken games--and they have gigantic QC budgets with AMD/Nvidia engineers working closely with each release--you can't expect 100% success rates all the time for small companies.

At least we can figure this out as a community. Here's my fix.

[MikeReverb1]

Just wanted to say fantastic find, Dr. Doctor. I would've never guessed it was Riva Tuner all along. It's always minimized on my tray, so I kind of forget about it. Thanks again!

[DeepDarksama]

Didn't even expect it but thanks!

[coolvibrationd]

Where do you go to turn off Riva Tuner?

[Borris]

Thank you very much for this information :)

[Dr.Doctor]

Check if you have Riva Tuner installed. If you do, and if it's active, make sure the program detection of Riva Tuner is set to "none"

[SenMithrarin85]

only had it once myself. don't have rivatuner installed.

[Dr.Doctor]

Curious, did more people have the game work after disabling Riva Tuner?

[Milky Miki]

I don’t have it installed and the game still refuses to start up and crashes at the now loading screen.. I really wanted to play this and this is the only game that gives me this issue.. I feel like I’ve exhausted every option.. I hope someone can still help I don’t wanna just refund the game it looks promising..

[ArchiBLEGHs]

I don't have this rivatuner as well and still the game always crashed