Game won't open.

[Reinero]

Hello. A little help -

Last week I started a new campaign in the game - I already have another char in guilding lands - and I installed the mods Stracker's load and skip cutscene.

I've noticed that when I open steam for the first time the game works normally.
But if I decide to play again, the game loads, goes black screen and closes without giving any error message.

When I researched it, I was told that the error could be in the mods.
I deleted the entire game folder and reinstalled it without anything and the problem persists.
So I can only log into the game a second time if I restart steam.
Any solutions?

[Oceano]

same here, not opening after black screen (no mods, reinstalled aswell)

let's hope things get fixed asap

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Originally posted by Reinero:

So I can only log into the game a second time if I restart steam.

Only thing I can think of is 1 week ago Steam client had a big update which added Game Recording
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/4472730495692571024

If you have Steam Game Recording enabled, try disabling it. Also try disabling Steam overlay.

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MHW was last updated 1 month ago (only to add the MH Wilds ad on the main menu, nothing changed about performance/stability), and this is the first time I've seen your specific issue described.

Other recent known issues don't match your description:

• On Windows, AMD GPU drivers 24.9.1 and 24.10.1 cause a crash when loading into specific areas in Dx12
  
• On Linux, MangoHud with fps_metric=avg in Dx12 causes a freeze on 2nd launch[github.com], but it should freeze at the black screen with the HUD partially drawn, not close by itself.
  
• Outdated mods may cause a crash at various points but it should be consistent, not only on 2nd launch, and you've deleted the entire game folder so there should not be any mods.
  
• Mod incompatibility: SharpPluginLoader crashes at startup with specific Stracker's Loader plugins like CutsceneSkip[github.com]

[Reinero]

I thought it might be the mods, so I did a clean install and the problem continued.
I'll try disabling recording -
I currently have another game installed - Satisfactory and it's working normally there.

[Wobblegong]

I just got a new computer and reinstalled this today. Same problem! Steam Recording was already disabled and it's a fresh install with no mods.

I seem to recall a possibly-similar issue with the Wilds demo. I think the solution there was deleting/renaming some kind of Windows 11 error file which was preventing the game from going, but I'd need to check that Discussion board. Otherwise I'm baffled.

[BoBSoB]

Same issue here and glad I'm not the only one with it. Ryzen 7 5800X3D RTX 3080Ti

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Originally posted by Wobblegong:

I seem to recall a possibly-similar issue with the Wilds demo. I think the solution there was deleting/renaming some kind of Windows 11 error file which was preventing the game from going, but I'd need to check that Discussion board. Otherwise I'm baffled.

World and Wilds use different engines. The file was a crash reporter included in Wilds, not related to Windows 11. Also, as far as I know, there was no such issue with Wilds only crashing on the second launch.

Question for all 4 of you: Does the problem only happen if you play MHW for a long time in the first session? Or does it crash on the 2nd launch if you simply start the game once, quit from the main menu, and start it again?

[khaals.vp]

Same here.. two days tryning everything and watching tutorials of how I can fix this crash. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one trying it..

[LastTourniquet]

This probably won't work but have you tried launching the game directly through the .exe in the game folder? (Right Click in your Library -> Manage -> Browse Local Files).

[Draago]

I just got it too it was working today but closed it and re opened it, suddenly black screen with crash to desktop

Edit: Solution that worked for me - i suspected the game didnt shut down properly so I signed out on windows (force closes all processes) and signed back in again and the game works fine. Dont even have to restart pc.

[Reinero]

Yesterday I played the game without any problems, but when I installed the mod - strack load and skip cut scene the problem returned;
The only solution I've found is to restart steam when this happens, at least for now.

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Originally posted by Reinero:

Yesterday I played the game without any problems, but when I installed the mod - strack load and skip cut scene the problem returned;
The only solution I've found is to restart steam when this happens, at least for now.

If it only happens with mods, can you try something.

Edit loader-config.json in your MHW folder
Set "logcmd" to true
Set "logLevel" to "INFO"

It should look like this:

{
  "logfile": false,
  "logcmd": true,
  "logLevel": "INFO",
  "outputEveryPath": false,
  "enablePluginLoader": true
}

Make sure to manually save if you're using Notepad, because recent versions of Windows 11 helpfully let you quit Notepad without saving :)

Now when you start the game, a console window should appear with the Stracker's log.

1. When you quit the game, does the console window automatically close? (If it doesn't, you can just close it after the game is fully closed. Don't close the console window before you save and quit the game, because it will also kill the game process.)

2. After the game and console window are both closed, can you start the game from Steam a 2nd time?

[BoBSoB]

So far the solution for me has been to disable RTSS with MHW.

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Originally posted by BoBSoB:

So far the solution for me has been to disable RTSS with MHW.

I suspect you don't have the same issue as Reinero in the first place, because you also posted that you have the "same issue" in another thread about a known AMD driver bug when you have an Nvidia GPU.

[C7_Negative]

i have a similar issue however it happens on the first launch did anyone figure out how to fix this?

[Hammer Of Evil]

have fun in win 11 guys.