Not Launching

[Marchella Von Erwood]

Hey guys. I can't even get this game to launch. Checked all the usual crap, verified the files and even disabled all my virus\malware protection on the off chance its that. Nada. Ran Steam as Administrator. Nothing. My PC is more than the minimum specs, so I can't see that being an issue. Windowed, Full-Screen and Borderless are all the same.

[Xeonaught]

will there be a patch to fix this problem I have not even searched the square enix site yet

[Marchella Von Erwood]

Originally posted by Gevatter Tod:

do you have the white screen issue or something else?

because what i explained should work against white screen.

if it is something else... then i am sorry, but i cant help you with that.

I get the "Running" in my Library issue, then the game just doesn't launch. Never seen a white screen.

[matthew]

There is one other thing, there is a program called process monitor,


https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon

download and unzip the archive into a folder, locate Procmon.exe, and run it, the filter popup, the first dropdrown, select prcoess name, then in the blank field dropdown, add
FFXII_TZA.exe

then click add, then start the game, a lot of it probably won't make much sense, but see what it says at the bottom, any access denied, or failed messages, on the right, it should list where the program is trying to access. Its a long shot, but would be interesting too know. Might also finger what its having problems accessing.

[Marchella Von Erwood]

I have the game working. My problem was rather... odd.

Visual C++ was not installing the DLL files. Every reinstall failed to install them. The repair option on the installation was failing to put the DLL files on as well.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE

If you are getting the missing x,y,z DLL files message when trying to launch from here and reinstalling Visual C++ hasn't worked, then try the following

Open Command Prompt.
Type "sfc /scannow"

It'll scan your Windows files for corrupted DLLs ect and replace them with a cached version. Its what I did and it then asked me to restart my PC as part of the process. Windows Update kicked in immediately and now it all works.

[matthew]

Glad you got it working, I had a feeling it was a windows issue. but yeah, corrupt files is certainly another reason. Might be worth posting your solution in other threads.

[LesterCovax]

Just had this issue when going back to play it.

Tried a bunch of stuff, but the fix ended up being uninstalling the visual c++ 2017 redistributables and then installing the 2015 ones contained in the install folder.

Thought I'd share in case anyone else is googling this.

[Gevatter Tod]

Originally posted by LesterCovax:

Just had this issue when going back to play it.

Tried a bunch of stuff, but the fix ended up being uninstalling the visual c++ 2017 redistributables and then installing the 2015 ones contained in the install folder.

Thought I'd share in case anyone else is googling this.

Thanks for that, but this was already mentioned and tried before in other posts.
The thing is, that this worked for a few people, but not for all.
I still recomend starting setting your screen to panorama, start the game and once it loaded the game switch back.