Game crashes on startup

[Karbonic]

The game starts up, and makes it to the title loading screen, but immediately crashes after it loads. After this, the crash handler is unable to send a report.
I have checked my antivirus and firewall and neither are blocking the game.
Any ideas what may be going wrong?

[sardiver]

I have the same problem.

[zFxlix]

mine too

[expensive hunter]

the same problem with me

[Tawix]

same on Linux Mint 21.1 witch Steam Proton

[Scphott]

I'm having this issue as well

[BreadSlice]

I don't know if this is your cause, but my game started crashing after an unassociated update to an audio application (either iCue or Voicemeeter). What I had to do was switch audio devices from the current to another and start the game. Then, close the game, return to the original audio device and restart the game.

My guess is it must internally save some information about the device which was out of date and was refreshed when a different device was used.

[Scphott]

Thank you BreadSlice! I tried that and it seems like that was the issue!

[Karbonic]

Tried BreadSlice's fix but it's still crashing on startup every time.
Any official word on why this may be happening to so many users?

[Sloblock42]

Originally posted by Karbonic:

Tried BreadSlice's fix but it's still crashing on startup every time.
Any official word on why this may be happening to so many users?

I had exactly the same issue and it appeared to be the result of a corrupted save file. I managed to resolve it by copying the files from my latest uncorrupted save-map into the current one. One file at a time, trying to start the game after every copied file to check which was the corrupted one. It was quite a bit of work but in the end I managed to restore all of my progress (1400h+, phew!).

In my experience every update and every new DLC have a chance to corrupt your save, apart from introducing brand new bugs and/or reviving old ones. This game is a house build on quicksand and EW just keeps adding new floors. My tip: copy your save-map after every game session so you always have something to fall back on.

[Karbonic]

Originally posted by Sloblock42:

I managed to resolve it by copying the files from my latest uncorrupted save-map into the current one.

What directory are these files saved in, and under what name?

[Zilli]

Originally posted by Karbonic:

Originally posted by Sloblock42:

I managed to resolve it by copying the files from my latest uncorrupted save-map into the current one.

What directory are these files saved in, and under what name?

did you solve this?

[Karbonic]

Originally posted by Zilli:

Originally posted by Karbonic:

What directory are these files saved in, and under what name?

did you solve this?

Unfortunately no, the game still does not open for me. Sorry I couldn't help, I wish you luck going forward!

[Capt_Moham]

Originally posted by BreadSlice:

I don't know if this is your cause, but my game started crashing after an unassociated update to an audio application (either iCue or Voicemeeter). What I had to do was switch audio devices from the current to another and start the game. Then, close the game, return to the original audio device and restart the game.

My guess is it must internally save some information about the device which was out of date and was refreshed when a different device was used.

This was my issue, just had my audio outputs set wrong.