Dark souls trilogy not opening

[Buttertoto]

Alrighty so a while ago i tried to play darksouls 3 but it fails to load up at all so I tried darksouls 1 and 2 and they have the same issue. Elden ring and sekiro work completely fine so I’m imagining it has something to do with what they did to make the servers safer. This said I don’t really know how to proceed cause I don’t have mods and verifying the steam files didn’t work same with uninstalling everything. Perhaps you guys may know a couple things I could try because I’m sorta at a loss on how I can fix anything when it seems to be related to fromsofts server fix

[JellyPuff]

They didn't fix the servers or make them safer (they're just matchmaking servers, actual MP is peer2peer). They've fixed a pretty serious exploit in the netcode within the game files, but i seriously doubt, it has anything to do with this if you haven't modded any of the games. ER also got that fix, before launching it.

Do you use a third-party antivirus tool? If yes, try temporarily disabling them and then try launching the games. Some of the more overzealous, bloated ones, like AVG, are known to cause issues with soulsgames, like the games throwing errors, when trying to save or outright not launching.

I'd also try unplugging every peripheral from your computer, like controllers or USB sticks.

If it's a perpetual blackscreen you're getting, try putting one of the game's in windowed mode by editing it's config-file. For example, you can find DS2:SotFS's config file, if you type %appdata% into the Windows search then open the "DarkSoulsII"-folder inside, to find a file, called "GraphicsConfig_SOFS.xml", open it with any text editor and change the line

<FullScreen>ON</FullScreen>

to

<FullScreen>OFF</FullScreen>

If that doesn't work either, try a clean boot of Windows, in order to rule out any other 3rd-party apps causing conflicts:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows-da2f9573-6eec-00ad-2f8a-a97a1807f3dd

[Buttertoto]

It’s not even getting a chance to black screen basically I click open on steam it say’s it goes green and say’s it’s launching and then it just stops and the only evidence I even tried to open it is now steam says I played it today. Although I did mod ds3 I removed that mod and I’ve also not touched ds1 and 2 mod wise so I don’t think that’s the issue. I’ll look into doing the clean boot of windows although if it’s what i think I’m hesitate cause I don’t wanna accidentally wipe my stuff

[JellyPuff]

Originally posted by Buttertoto:

I’ll look into doing the clean boot of windows although if it’s what i think I’m hesitate cause I don’t wanna accidentally wipe my stuff

A clean boot just disables 3rd-party services and background programs. Nothing will get removed and no permanent changes are being made. You can simply enable them again the same way, once you're done testing.

I've forgot to mention, when you do a clean boot, keep services related to your graphic's card and Steam enabled, since you need them to launch the games. That includes basically anything, that says "Intel", "AMD", "NVIDIA", "Steam" or "VALVe".

[Khaziir Everflight]

Originally posted by Buttertoto:

It’s not even getting a chance to black screen basically I click open on steam it say’s it goes green and say’s it’s launching and then it just stops and the only evidence I even tried to open it is now steam says I played it today. Although I did mod ds3 I removed that mod and I’ve also not touched ds1 and 2 mod wise so I don’t think that’s the issue. I’ll look into doing the clean boot of windows although if it’s what i think I’m hesitate cause I don’t wanna accidentally wipe my stuff

I'd reccomend trying to verify/repair the files through steam. sometimes installs can just corrupt for no appearent reason... had to learn that recently when a few games that i installed and played the day before suddenly did not work, and had dozens of files in need to do that. No clue why, but it helped at the time. same seeming issue as you had, so maybe some steam based files in the game folders are broken and need verification.