Game crashes when launching after new update

[double shrimp]

I was playing hd2 this afternoon and it works well. After new patch I can't even start the game

[NIXK]

same

[Yusora]

What fixed it for me, was to verify the games integrity trough steam, then use the helldivers mod manager, pressed purge, then it worked vanilla.

[Aleph]

same, verifying does nothing


edit: i did nothing to fix it and now it just started working again

[NIXK]

Originally posted by Yusora:

What fixed it for me, was to verify the games integrity trough steam, then use the helldivers mod manager, pressed purge, then it worked vanilla.

works for me, thx, i forgot about mods :))

[Aid of Healer]

Originally posted by NIXK:

Originally posted by Yusora:

What fixed it for me, was to verify the games integrity trough steam, then use the helldivers mod manager, pressed purge, then it worked vanilla.

works for me, thx, i forgot about mods :))

yep the devs did a nuke on any existing mesh edits so basically most visual mods are going to crash your game now. This never happened before but for some reason they wanted to do it.

[double shrimp]

Solved. A visual mod caused the crash. I deleted it and I can play.

[Vintage Shin Kartz]

How recognise a fellow mod user without saying it outright.

Yes, mods are your issue. Go to Mod Manager, uncheck all and click "Purge". Maybe go from mod to mod to see what still works for now.

This is obnoxious, because it never happened before, but now we better appreciate the modders even more, because they have to update all of their work, hell, maybe even per update now

[Yami Ninja]

Its any mod that messes with skins be it weapons or the Helldiver....heck enemies as well.

[Dracul]

I had only sound mods, deleting them fixed it

[Marschall Melchiott]

A long time ago, I installed one mod.
One file.
Without using NMM.
Mod to remove the cape (invisible texture).
The last steam file check found nothing.
Am I right in thinking that I will have to manually search for one single file in 1000 game files?

[Bendicto]

Originally posted by Yusora:

What fixed it for me, was to verify the games integrity trough steam, then use the helldivers mod manager, pressed purge, then it worked vanilla.

thanks G, forgot i had those lol

[xAlpine]

Ever since the update, ive been crashing as well but i dont use mods and ive tried checking the integrity and still crash.

[Maxal]

still not working for me. nothing has changed since the update expect the game crashes soon now than it did yesterday. do not understand how they screwed this up so bad.

After last update they cut the frame rate way down and i finally got mine back up over 30. not total shutdown.

No mods, uninstalled reinstalled erased shader files, deleted data file and verified, nothing works

[ReTodd]

yeah nothing is working. Purged Mods, deleted shader cache, checked integrity. Crashes immediately.

[zidj]

Originally posted by ReTodd:

yeah nothing is working. Purged Mods, deleted shader cache, checked integrity. Crashes immediately.

There's 2 things you can try

1) delete the data\ folder in the game's install directory and then verify files again. this has apparently worked for lotta people with this issue

2) run the game in directx11. launch arg -use-d3d11. you will need to first delete the shader cache in %appdata%\Arrowhead\helldivers2\shader_cache