General Protection Fault - Unplayable, Fix List

[avarzino66]

I boot the game, claptrap gives me my echo, my hud loads, and a few seconds after that I am hit with the infamous general protection fault message. Bought the key from steam.

Windows 11
RogStrix G513QM
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
Nvidia GeForce RTX3060

I have tried every bug fix for this issue that I have been able to find thus far. I will list them to save time. None of these have worked or altered the above scenario.

Joltzdude139 Memory leak fix; Set the game to nomovieopening inside of steam settings and delete angel VOG files.
Authenticate local files within steam.
Delete Binaries folder and re authenticate with steam.
Add physxcudart_20.Dll file to win64 subfolder. I even downloaded a seperate physxcudart_20.dll file directly from nvidia and extracted copies to several different folders.
Re install older Nvidia driver
Running DXSetup.exe, Vcredist.exe files and accompanying physx_8.10.29_Sytemsoftware.exe files, rebooting the pc and running from steam
Running game.exe as an admin
Double checking that my PC supports DX11, re downloading and setting up dx11, integrating it into the local files
Ensure game is in online mode and allowing windows firewall bypass exception
Ensure all drivers are updated
Ensure game is running with High performance Nvidia driver in Manage 3D settings of the Nvidia control pannel
Disabling allow full screen optimizations in all settings in game and out
Bypassing launcher on startup
Editing Steam.emu file - adjusting run in online mode value from 1 to 0 while allowing functional text line to remain unaltered/run in online mode
Running game in offline mode
Run the game with and without in-game tutorial pop ups
Changing frame rate and graphic settings
Delete cudart.dll file from game and reauthenticating

Troubleshooting all fixes to ensure settings were saved and applied correctly
deleting all game files and redownloading through steam

A good four hours into just trying to get GOTY enhanced to run on a fully capable PC, and I am about ready to give up. GOTY E is intended to run on xbox360/ps3 and not on PC. Some of these solutions come directly from 2k. I am of course aware that these bug fixes have worked for a majority of players on pc, but for me sadly they have not. I am posting this to warn everyone who wishes to play GOTY E on PC, it may not be possible for you. Also this list will save you from scraping through 12 browser links and discussion forums looking for a solution. I recommend you play GOT if you get the message. :/ I am over it. It is likely that I have forgotten to mention a fix or two that I tried, so if anyone has any additional thoughts for this bug fix list feel free to comment.

[Renfrew]

It's old news that this game is a lazy cash grab attempting to promote the terrible BL3. Play the original version, 'nuff said.

[avarzino66]

Update: So I was combing through the gearbox forums and found a couple more things.

Pausing one drive while the game is running has fixed GPF for some people.
Not only deleting the angel files, but deleting the entire movies subfolder inside of the willowgame folder has also fixed GPF
I also found someone make a thread that no one even liked or commented on saying that the game was unplayable until he disconnected his PC and steam from the internet.

One drive and deleting the movie folder did not fix it, however turning off my PC's wifi DID.

This makes no sense to me at all. I did extensive testing on the general protection fault experimenting with wifi settings and functions on my PC, steam, the game menu, and the game files. BUT SOMEHOW, TURNING OFF MY PC WIFI WAS THE GOLDEN F#&^#( EGG.

Also the game was crashing at cutscenes, at save points, and had terrible frame drops during seemingly random times, but for some reason when I deleted the movie folder from GOTY E, the cutscenes and the game ran perfectly.

???????????????

Ok.... well. The game works. I wish I could mod it into oblivion just to give 2k the finger, but I will do what I can.