Game won't launch

[Hellscythe]

Everytime I try to run Darksiders, the window "launching Darksiders" shows up. After it has disappeared, nothing happens. It won't crash or something, it simply does not start at all. I uninstalled and reinstalled the game, ran it as administrator and tried repairing the game. Didn't change anything. Can anyone help me?

[rmg10051]

well i use an nvidia card, so i just went into my nvida control panel, clicked on "Configure Surround, Physx" and changed it from there.

[I Zip Tied My Dick To A Brick]

whenever i try t load darksiders 2, it opens, then closes, and tells me that it has stopped working. im running a toshiba p70-a with windows 8.

[nobackup]

Same issue here. game worked fine before, but I started it up for the first time in a few months....i get the 'preparing to launch Darksiders' screen, then it just goes away and nothing starts. Very annoying. I've tried all the fixes listed here plus a re-install, no luck.

[I Zip Tied My Dick To A Brick]

i tried to reinstall, and updated all my drivers and such, but nothings working. is it maybe got something to do with the games core files?

[nobackup]

ok i figured out my issue, it was actually pretty simple in retrospec. I had installed a sweet fx filter and it left a bunch of files in the darksiders directory that the new intsllation didn't like. I just deleted everything in the directory, reinstalled, and it's back to working order.

[I Zip Tied My Dick To A Brick]

would me running the game through razor game booster be affecting it in the same way?

[StrikR]

Originally posted by ShaRk:

Hey guys,

today (after three weeks without problems playing Darksiders) I got the same issue. The solution that helped me:

- Rightclick on "Darksider" in game-library
- Choose Properties -> Local Files
- Click "Veryify integrity of gamecache
- Click Repair

Now Darksiders should update about 800MB. After the update you also have to delete the AMD_Logo_movie.wmv in ~\steamapps\common\darksiders\media\videos.

After completing all these stuff your game should, hopefully, run without problems.

Hope I was able to help somebody!

This worked for me thanks :D

[Sixtyofnine]

As above delete the AMD_Logo_movie.wmv in ~\steamapps\common\darksiders\media\videos.
should work :)

[I Zip Tied My Dick To A Brick]

cant find the AMD thing in that folder...

Originally posted by Sixtyofnine:

As above delete the AMD_Logo_movie.wmv in ~\steamapps\common\darksiders\media\videos.
should work :)

[Dabar]

Originally posted by Hc`StrikR:

Originally posted by ShaRk:

Hey guys,

today (after three weeks without problems playing Darksiders) I got the same issue. The solution that helped me:

- Rightclick on "Darksider" in game-library
- Choose Properties -> Local Files
- Click "Veryify integrity of gamecache
- Click Repair

Now Darksiders should update about 800MB. After the update you also have to delete the AMD_Logo_movie.wmv in ~\steamapps\common\darksiders\media\videos.

After completing all these stuff your game should, hopefully, run without problems.

Hope I was able to help somebody!

This worked for me thanks :D

Guys,
Here are few steps that I did and that helped me.
1. I did all from the post above.
2. Next, I went to SteamApps\common\Darksiders\ folder, and ran 2 exe files. (vcredist_x86_sp1_atl_4053, dxwebsetup). Best is to run them as administrator.
3. Finally, I run DarksidersPC.exe as ADMINISTRATOR.

I think that this 3rd step is CRUCIAL. I have set this exe file, to always run it as administrator, and I don't have any more problems :)

I hope this will help someone :)

[Luc1d]

I am running Windows 8 and had a problem with black screen, not even getting logos so heres what I did. I found this solution on the internet for Deadspace and applied the same for Darksiders 1 and 2.
I will divide this out into steps.

1. use notepad to create a .txt file that has the below information in it. save it as settings.txt. copy and paste that to a notepad and save it.

Audio.AltNameColor = false
Audio.MusicVol = 1.00000000
Audio.Output = 0
Audio.SFXVol = 1.00000000
Audio.Subtitles = true
Audio.VoiceVol = 1.00000000
Control.AimAssistEnabled = true
Control.AimingPosition = 1
Control.ControllerSensitivity = 2
Control.FireButtonControls = true
Control.InvertX = false
Control.InvertY = false
Control.MouseSensitivity = 0.20000000
Control.Shock = true
Controls.AcL.X = 0x1105FF7E
Controls.AcL.Y = 0x0003100E
Game.PDiff = 1
Game.Played = 1
Misc.LastSaveSlot = 0
QualityOptions.ActorMotionBlur = true
QualityOptions.Bloom = true
QualityOptions.Blur = true
QualityOptions.ConfigType = 1
QualityOptions.Decals = true
QualityOptions.Distortion = true
QualityOptions.DoF = true
QualityOptions.EdgeAA = true
QualityOptions.Flare = true
QualityOptions.Glow = true
QualityOptions.HighLightQuality = true
QualityOptions.ManipColor = true
QualityOptions.ShaderQuality = 2
QualityOptions.Shadows = 2
Window.Fullscreen = true
Window.Gamma = 0.50000000
Window.Height = 1080
Window.Hz = 60
Window.Left = 0
Window.MessageNotification = 1
Window.State = 0
Window.Top = 0
Window.VSync = false
Window.Width = 1920

2. After you've saved that as a .txt file to a place you can easily access it. go to Localdisc(c:)/User/'yourname'/Documents/mygames/darksiders/'accountnumber'

3. there you will create a new folder and save your settings.txt file of the settings above to this new folder.

4. fire up the game and pray it works because it did for me.

[F0rys47]

IF You installed the game on your second HardDrive (like D: or another partition of the same disc) move it to the OS Drive (probably C: or where the system files are and SHAZAM, the game works fine. No need to do any of the strange shiz listed above.

Have a nice game session.

[Strife]

Originally posted by DreadPirateR:

very easy fix for this go into the steam apps directory for darksiders/videos and delete the amd.wmv video and now it works :)

It is wo

[Strife]

This is a perfect fix guyz. And get your game running well

[dwspring]

This worked for me:
1. Installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\
2. Deleted AMD_Logo_movie.wmv from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Darksiders\media\videos
3. Change to Compatibility mode on "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Darksiders\DarksidersPC.exe" to Windows XP SP3.

Good luck!