Game won't start at all?

[crimson-lotus]

My game won't start at all, and I get the hackGU.exe has stopped working error message. Anyone have similar experiences/posssible fixes?

I'm on GTX970 16gb ram windows 7

[badspot]

If you experience a crash every 10 mins and you're on Windows 10, go into your Task Manager, Details, and end the program Tabtips.exe. There's apparently an issue with that program that can cause certain games to crash.

[crimson-lotus]

Dude, I said I can't start the game at all, how am I gonna have crashes every 10 minutes if I can't start the game?

[Naos Stulos]

I am hoping that devs are watching these boards for release day bugs.

[badspot]

Originally posted by crimson-lotus:

Dude, I said I can't start the game at all, how am I gonna have crashes every 10 minutes if I can't start the game?

Try it. It may fix it.

[Ogami]

Game did start for me but only with a black screen and then nothing.
Had to set the game exe to " start as administrator", then it worked fine.
Also on a GTX 970 here, 16 GB RAM, Windows 10 PRO.

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Game did start for me but only with a black screen and then nothing.
Had to set the game exe to " start as administrator", then it worked fine.
Also on a GTX 970 here, 16 GB RAM, Windows 10 PRO.

I can help you with this. I had to fix the problem in my own software.

When you start the game as administrator, what you're doing is actually blocking any third-party software that's not also running as administrator from injecting itself into the game. The game itself doesn't need admin privs., you're actually just elevating it into a state where third-party software running with normal privs. just can't touch it.

Now, that doesn't really help you resolve your problem. I just wanted to point this out.



To resolve the problem, at least in the case of my own software, I had to compensate for the fact that he game works by loading different DLLs for the launcher, and each game. My software was preventing that from working by changing the directory the game looks for its DLLs in. I'm sure your problem is the exact same, and in your case, you can't change the software so you just have to figure out what the software that's doing it is and disable it.

The primary culprit would be stuff like video capture, GeDoSaTo, etc.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

The primary culprit would be stuff like video capture, GeDoSaTo, etc.

Thanks for that explanation. With that i found the culprit, it was actually the "K Special Injector" that i had running in the background for some other games. After i closed it down the game starts without needing the admin rights. Thx again.

[Kaldaien]

That is my software, ironically :)

I have a patch for this that will be released shortly.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

That is my software, ironically :)

I have a patch for this that will be released shortly.

Oh , ha ha ha. Did not notice that you are the creator. Awesome software btw, helped a ton in different games. :P

[Dasten]

It's great that you've solved the problem but if someone who is reading this and is still experiencing issues, please check to see if you have VC 2017 Redistributable still installed, as having it solved the issue for me.

It's something that verifying files doesn't put back on for you.