Slime Rancher Startup Issue

[Otters]

Every time I start my game since this evening, it opens with a black screen and the windows "open game bar" tooltip is blue instead of green. The screen stays black and all the graphics are gone, but there is still sound; I can hear the menu screen. I have to do ctrl alt del to get out of it and close it. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling multiple times, restarting my computer, copying the _CommonRedist folder from Unturned into the game folder, and a bunch of other things, but it's still not fixed. Also, before I removed the Steam overlay from the game, the shift tab tooltip would act like it was cycling up and down really quickly in the bottom corner.
I have looked through a bunch of help things, but they are all from last year, and I only had this issue starting after the newest update installed.
My laptop is Lenovo on Windows 10 home, with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics and AMD A8-6410 APU.
Any fixes or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[DJ Mae]

I've been having this same issue, I have been tyring to get the support team's help, but so far their advice has been things I already tried. I hadn't played the game in a long time, so it hashappened after the update and after a graphics driver update.
I have a Lenovo laptop on Windows 10 home, with NVIDIA GTX 860M

[Otters]

I've been playing it almost every day since I got it, I think last Friday, and the issue started right after the most recent patch.

[DJ Mae]

I've noticed this issue with a few other games in my library too, but everything I've tried has still failed. I used my settings to update Windows 10, I downloaded the DirectX software to remove any possible corruptions, I'm struggling to find further solutions as this exact issue doesn't seem to have been resolved yet.

[Shrubber]

Same symptoms for me on Linux.

I resolved it by opening up the config file, setting fullscreen to 0, and the game loaded, however switched itself to fullscreen after a while.

Seems buggy =) but is working for me now. Has to be done every startup.

[Otters]

Originally posted by RootCookie:

Same symptoms for me on Linux.

I resolved it by opening up the config file, setting fullscreen to 0, and the game loaded, however switched itself to fullscreen after a while.

Seems buggy =) but is working for me now. Has to be done every startup.

What's the directory for the config file? Like which folders do I go through to get to it? I don't mind doing that if it's the only way to get it to work until it's patched.

[Otters]

Originally posted by DJ Mae:

I've noticed this issue with a few other games in my library too, but everything I've tried has still failed. I used my settings to update Windows 10, I downloaded the DirectX software to remove any possible corruptions, I'm struggling to find further solutions as this exact issue doesn't seem to have been resolved yet.

I haven't tried opening any of my other games recently. I wonder if it wasn't just the Slime Rancher patch then that broke it? I only started having the issue with it after the patch.

[Shrubber]

Originally posted by Otters:

Originally posted by RootCookie:

Same symptoms for me on Linux.

I resolved it by opening up the config file, setting fullscreen to 0, and the game loaded, however switched itself to fullscreen after a while.

Seems buggy =) but is working for me now. Has to be done every startup.

What's the directory for the config file? Like which folders do I go through to get to it? I don't mind doing that if it's the only way to get it to work until it's patched.

Well... for Linux it would be...
~/.config/unity3d/Monomi Park/Slime Rancher

Windows, you could try searching for unity3d or Monomi Park. Since it's Unity, it wont be in the install directory, probably users/appdata.

[Otters]

Originally posted by RootCookie:

Originally posted by Otters:

What's the directory for the config file? Like which folders do I go through to get to it? I don't mind doing that if it's the only way to get it to work until it's patched.

Well... for Linux it would be...
~/.config/unity3d/Monomi Park/Slime Rancher

Windows, you could try searching for unity3d or Monomi Park. Since it's Unity, it wont be in the install directory, probably users/appdata.

okay, thank you. I'll try to find it =3

[Otters]

Originally posted by Otters:

Originally posted by RootCookie:

Well... for Linux it would be...
~/.config/unity3d/Monomi Park/Slime Rancher

Windows, you could try searching for unity3d or Monomi Park. Since it's Unity, it wont be in the install directory, probably users/appdata.

okay, thank you. I'll try to find it =3

all the config file I found says in it is
{"prefs":{}}

[Shrubber]

I found out you can just set the games launch options instead...
Right click the game in steam, properties, set launch options under general...

-screen-fullscreen 0

[Otters]

Originally posted by RootCookie:

I found out you can just set the games launch options instead...
Right click the game in steam, properties, set launch options under general...

-screen-fullscreen 0

That didn't fix it =/ all it did was make it open in windowed mode, then it switched to fullscreen, and there were still no graphics either way.

[DJ Mae]

The windowed mode doesn't work for me either way, and I've tried it with one of my other games that is failing. Still had no success yet.

[DJ Mae]

To add to this, I've been looking at the files of a select few games that all have this issue (I'm not checking all 100 of my games), the ones with the issue are all running on Unity. :/

[Otters]

Originally posted by DJ Mae:

To add to this, I've been looking at the files of a select few games that all have this issue (I'm not checking all 100 of my games), the ones with the issue are all running on Unity. :/

I think it's something about missing a file but I don't know how to fix it.

[Nox]

lately whenever i launch the game the screen is glitching, i can still play the game but its just glitching out and i dont know how to fix the issue, ive already tried re-installing the game but that didnt do anything