[SOLVED] HELP!!! My Warband won't launch

[Octavian]

I've been having an issue with my new copy of Mount and Blade Warband. I just bought it off steam and it worked fine. There were some initial graphical issues due to my newly installed GTX 970 Graphics Card, but I was able to solve pretty easily. The issue I'm having now is that whenever I try and launch it brings up the launcher, I select play and it loads up the 'Taleworlds Entertainment' intro, without any sound, and then once that has finished it just crashes and the game does not launch.

I've checked literally every forum so far, I done what they've said from deleting 'rgl_config.txt' to updating and checking my Directx but nothing works. I went into the event viewer with Windows and found this long error messages:

Faulting application name: mb_warband.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x55e9a89a
Faulting module name: mb_warband.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x55e9a89a
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00002608
Faulting process ID: 0xcbc
Faulting application start time: 0x01d24d6955a64ff2
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\MountBlade Warband\mb_warband.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\MountBlade Warband\mb_warband.exe
Report ID: 0f343432-cbb2-4a97-98de-61c91701cf6c
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Unfortunately, I'm really not a master with anything too technical so this is really baffling to me. The best I can guess is that it's an issue with the path that the game is using to launch, but how I would go about fixing it is beyond me.

Anyway if you can help in any way it would be greatly appreciated.

[X-the Unknown]

Complete uninstall reinstall helps many times. You could check your files for stability first in the properties section run a cache scan and try first.

[Octavian]

I'm reinstalling again now, but I've already tried it a couple of time and there was still no change. I've tried verifying the game cache also but it didn't do anything either. Thanks for the help though.

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

well,atleast you made some effort too tell us what the problem is,though yours is not always simple
google helps..
http://compfreakstars.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/0xc0000005-error-every-day-many.html

so,in your case we start with ccleaner and malware bytes (both free,but use a reliable download,or that will become part of thier job to )
next i would firmily blame your new GPU and its installation
i don't really think it would be another cause

[Octavian]

Thanks man :) appreciate the help. I've been looking into it for a while now and it's gonna take any absolute age to sort it out. If I find anything and/or fix it then I'll update this.

[FurioRosso]

im having issues trying to play as well, i get to the loding screen and a couple seconds later it just crashes. no mods either, so somewhere down the line either the game updated and its broken on my machine or the latest drivers i have just make it unplayable.. which is annoying asf as this is one of my favs to play. but mount & blade 1 works fine -.-

[Zstar]

I'm having the exact same issue, but my Nvidia GTX 950 was installed back in May. The game has only become unplayable in the past month or so.

I hope someone finds a solution, otherwise i gotta wait till bannerlord

[Oxiras]

Try reinstalling DirectX 9, IIRC regular mount and blade (not warband) uses only DirectX7.

A quick look is to try launching Warband with DirectX7 instead of 9.

[Octavian]

Alright, just an update. My fix was actually incredibly simple.

All I had to do was uninstall, delete all the remaining entries from the registry which were associated with Warband (I recommended getting help from a professional or someone who has any idea what they're doing to do this) and then do some work within the newly installed configuration. The best way I found to make it work was to put it into windowed. To be honest this may have been the route of the issue the entire time and I was just being an idiot and overcomplicating things.

Regardless, I hope this help. Thanks for everyone's replies, they helped to siphon out the problem.

[Zstar]

Originally posted by GeorgeDKnight:

Alright, just an update. My fix was actually incredibly simple.

All I had to do was uninstall, delete all the remaining entries from the registry which were associated with Warband (I recommended getting help from a professional or someone who has any idea what they're doing to do this) and then do some work within the newly installed configuration. The best way I found to make it work was to put it into windowed. To be honest this may have been the route of the issue the entire time and I was just being an idiot and overcomplicating things.

Regardless, I hope this help. Thanks for everyone's replies, they helped to stiffen out the problem.

Hey man! thanks for taking the time to write up how you got it to work!

I tried uninstalling and then deleting all files from my computer, but not through the registry. I know this would leave a few bits behind, but I didnt want to give myself a headache.

Tried window mode after i couldnt get it to work still, and it works perfectly normal.

I think it really is just the windowmode. Maybe a resolution issue taleworlds and steam are struggling with?

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

Originally posted by RandomDom:

I'm so lost .-.

don't muck around in the registry if you have no idea what it is

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

Originally posted by RandomDom:

Dumb question, but where is the registry?

windows start button>type- regedit

remember my warning

[Octavian]

Originally posted by Zstar:

Originally posted by GeorgeDKnight:

Alright, just an update. My fix was actually incredibly simple.

All I had to do was uninstall, delete all the remaining entries from the registry which were associated with Warband (I recommended getting help from a professional or someone who has any idea what they're doing to do this) and then do some work within the newly installed configuration. The best way I found to make it work was to put it into windowed. To be honest this may have been the route of the issue the entire time and I was just being an idiot and overcomplicating things.

Regardless, I hope this help. Thanks for everyone's replies, they helped to stiffen out the problem.

Hey man! thanks for taking the time to write up how you got it to work!

I tried uninstalling and then deleting all files from my computer, but not through the registry. I know this would leave a few bits behind, but I didnt want to give myself a headache.

Tried window mode after i couldnt get it to work still, and it works perfectly normal.

I think it really is just the windowmode. Maybe a resolution issue taleworlds and steam are struggling with?

I wouldn't be surprised. They don't release many updates anymore so I think whatever happens now has to be fan made. It's irritating to play it in windowed sometimes, but you can set the resolution of the window to bascially fullscreen size so it's workable. Glad I could help btw :)

[Heisenburg28]

Originally posted by GeorgeDKnight:

Originally posted by Zstar:

Hey man! thanks for taking the time to write up how you got it to work!

I tried uninstalling and then deleting all files from my computer, but not through the registry. I know this would leave a few bits behind, but I didnt want to give myself a headache.

Tried window mode after i couldnt get it to work still, and it works perfectly normal.

I think it really is just the windowmode. Maybe a resolution issue taleworlds and steam are struggling with?

I wouldn't be surprised. They don't release many updates anymore so I think whatever happens now has to be fan made. It's irritating to play it in windowed sometimes, but you can set the resolution of the window to bascially fullscreen size so it's workable. Glad I could help btw :)

just had this problem and Zstar is right, i didnt reinstall, just put it in window mode and it started right up.

[Svullom]

I know this is solved but I had the same problem (the logo started and then the game crashed for no apparent reason) and tried the DirectX stuff, reinstalling the game and all that. Nothing worked. Then I realized I had my monitor shared with my TV via an HDMI cable. I unplugged that PoS and voila, Warband worked perfectly again.

[Honey]

Originally posted by Heisenburg28:

Originally posted by GeorgeDKnight:

I wouldn't be surprised. They don't release many updates anymore so I think whatever happens now has to be fan made. It's irritating to play it in windowed sometimes, but you can set the resolution of the window to bascially fullscreen size so it's workable. Glad I could help btw :)

just had this problem and Zstar is right, i didnt reinstall, just put it in window mode and it started right up.

how do you start the game in windowed mode by the way?