Game starts in background only

[Hennnnnnosn]

hi! when i hit play in steam or start the foundation.exe the game starts always in the background. its showing in the task manager, and i also have it showing in my taskbar. i hear the sound of the game, but cant see anything in the actual game window. the cursor changes but no game window, not even a black screen. i tried the "-userpath C:\foundationdata" thing, it created the new folder correctly but it doesnt solve the issue. i verified, reinstalled game + gpu etc, i did all the steps mentioned in other posts regarding this problem (firewall etc etc etc). in the log file it says "can't open file C:\foundationdata\input.config | error: [2] No such file or directory" and a million other errors! please help, i dont want to refund because of this!

win 11
amd radeon rx 6650 xt

[Hennnnnnosn]

tried everything again, clean installs etc, the launch option, defender exclusions, path exclusions. nothing changes, when i launch i still only have the icon on the taskbar and the game sound, but no game window.

please help

[ChimBeara]

Cannot see game on launch

Hello, I've never posted to a forum like this I will do what I can to assist those who are assisting me!
I have attempted to launch the games while doing research and trying different solutions to no avail and so here I am.
I've tried adding -userpath C:\foundationdata
As a launch option, and I've added exclusions for the game in my system security as well.
The game launches a window, but I cannot see this window, when I alt+tab I can see a window within the changing screen options but it's like it's invisible.
My mouse changes to the in-game cursor and I can hear the music if I alt+tab over the invisible window, if I hit buttons such as esc, I can hear the games sound affects reacting to the button inputs.

I cannot figure out how to get this game to launch for the life of me! I've had a similar issue with Balatro as well but no other games I've played on this PC.
Any help would be appreciated, I have an AMD Graphics.

[zodiac0611]

uodate your video driver
that was my hotfix good luck

[zodiac0611]

update video drivers

[ChimBeara]

My system states they are all up to date, but thank you!

[Pookie Bear]

I literally have the exact some problem, can someone pls help?

[Pookie Bear]

exact same problem and same video card lol

[Britney]

Need tech support

I have tried to launch the game and steam says its running, but no game shows up. I have went through the steps to make sure my computer is up to date, tried all the tricks to clear and even uninstalled steam multiple times saving it from one local drive C to S and then back. So I am really just stuck and don't know what else to try. Any IT out there to really dig into this with me?

[The real Jc]

i updated driver, did not help me. When i start it i have no window pop up, i can see it in the task manager and i cant completely stop it unless i restart pc. I tried reinstalling it but no good.

[Onkeldunkel]

I'm experiencing the same problem aswell, the game loads up a black/blank window but nothing happens, i had the same problem a couple a days ago, it did manage to fix it by reinstalling the game, just to be on the safe side + updating my NVIDIA-driver to the newest version, and that seemed to do the trick, but now im back to the same problem again after they've patched the game. I've been playing the game in beta on/off for years and i've never had any problems at all :(

[Saz]

I am also having the same issue even with the latest hotfix. I have uninstalled, reinstalled, checked drivers, checked firewalls and tried the advanced launch option -userpath C:\foundationdata.
It's still not working!!! It literally worked yesterday with the launch option, after alot of time trying to get it to work

I've had this game for years but if it's unplayable I want a refund!!!

[Saz]

Commenting to follow this sub. Having the same issue, tried a number of things and it's still not working.

[Hennnnnnosn]

im having the same issue, tried all the things and all the solutions.
also AMD gpu and windows 11

[Hennnnnnosn]

Originally posted by zodiac0611:

update video drivers

the drivers are up to date

[Mr Ash]

In most instances, this is being caused by OneDrive blocking access to the Documents folder.

You can change the location of the user files by adding the following to the launch options in Steam:

-userpath C:\foundationdata\

Where C is the drive letter and foundationdata is the folder name. You can set this path to anything you wish for your own system.

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If the above does not work and you are still having problems we would like to get more information on this issue.

Please could you send you foundation.log files as well as a dxdiag report to us at [e-mail] so that we can investigate further.

foundation.log file is (normally) found here:
> Documents/Polymorph Games/Foundation

To run dxdiag:
> type 'dxdiag' in Windows search bar
> Run the dxdiag tool and wait for the green bar to finish
> Save all information

Thanks

I will mark this post as the answer to keep it visible until we can get more information for those still having the issue after trying the initial workaround.