Stuck on startup

[とうきょう]

Hi yall, I saw the YTB video and decided to give this game a try since it looks and sounds amazing but I cant start the game up for some reason. I rechecked files, redownloaded and still im stuck in steam boot. All it does is "preparing to launch" then it disappears and says "preparing to launch" and it does this over and over again... Just to remind you, I play games like Red Dead Redemption 2 or Shadow of the Tomb Raider or Cyberpunk 2077 on highest details with Raytracing on normally so my HW is good and I know its good cuz I carefully picked it to be able to play them games with these features. Does anyone knows how to fix the steam boot loop please?

[cute]

same thing here

[superpeen]

me too

[Goomes]

Hello, are you attempting to join a server that is either full/near full or exceeds 64 players? That is usually when we see this bug, and a lot of the time you should just be able to hit M to open your spawn select and then pick somewhere to spawn and go. If not, you might have to try rejoining, or just try another server as the one you are on is full, or is exceeding the optimized player amount and you are having a tough time receiving the data upon join as a result.

[superpeen]

Originally posted by Goomes:

Hello, are you attempting to join a server that is either full/near full or exceeds 64 players? That is usually when we see this bug, and a lot of the time you should just be able to hit M to open your spawn select and then pick somewhere to spawn and go. If not, you might have to try rejoining, or just try another server as the one you are on is full, or is exceeding the optimized player amount and you are having a tough time receiving the data upon join as a result.

no thats not the issue. The game doenst launch from steam at all, when we press play in our steam library the game launch initializes but it seems like its forced to shut down, before anything happens, and as soon as the cloud is synchronized ,which is in an instant (after the shut down), it relaunches into this infinite loop. Appreciate the response though.

[Goomes]

Originally posted by superpeen:

Originally posted by Goomes:

Hello, are you attempting to join a server that is either full/near full or exceeds 64 players? That is usually when we see this bug, and a lot of the time you should just be able to hit M to open your spawn select and then pick somewhere to spawn and go. If not, you might have to try rejoining, or just try another server as the one you are on is full, or is exceeding the optimized player amount and you are having a tough time receiving the data upon join as a result.

no thats not the issue. The game doenst launch from steam at all, when we press play in our steam library the game launch initializes but it seems like its forced to shut down, before anything happens, and as soon as the cloud is synchronized ,which is in an instant (after the shut down), it relaunches into this infinite loop. Appreciate the response though.

Ah, ok I see, sorry I misunderstood. A few preliminary questions: What are your PC specs? Have you attempted to verify your game files? And are your GPU drivers up-to-date?

[とうきょう]

Originally posted by Goomes:

Originally posted by superpeen:

no thats not the issue. The game doenst launch from steam at all, when we press play in our steam library the game launch initializes but it seems like its forced to shut down, before anything happens, and as soon as the cloud is synchronized ,which is in an instant (after the shut down), it relaunches into this infinite loop. Appreciate the response though.

Ah, ok I see, sorry I misunderstood. A few preliminary questions: What are your PC specs? Have you attempted to verify your game files? And are your GPU drivers up-to-date?

Sorry mate but these questions about drivers up to date or specs are irrelevant. if my specs are good enough to run Cyberpunk at Ultra/Psycho settings with raytracing on at 60 FPS then my rig is clearly good enough for this game... and my drivers are always up to date cuz games like Hogwarts Legacy kinda require newer drivers to even run properly... I did said that I verified files and also reinstalled the game yet I am stuck on boot at steam "preparing to launch" popup when you startup any steam game its just this game wont boot at all and this popup is in endless loop... I also think that treating gamers same way as your grandma that has no clue about computers is kinda rude... every gamer keeps windows and drivers up to date and knows his rig capabilities unless hes a complete newbie. The question here is that WHY THE GAME IS STUCK ON STEAM BOOT LOOP not why it doesnt run properly or cant connect servers and whatnot...

As I stated on YTB, this game looks like a proper remaster of first 2 battlefield games with all thoses explained features so its kinda bummer that some people cant even launch the game with mid-high end computers like me... And if you really think that people trying to run games on integrated graphics or ancient HW then I have some news for you, people whom use that ancient technology play minecraft and fortnite and are not even interested in games like this cuz they seem too hard for them to play.

Anyways I tried to hard launch the game outside of steam, still no budge there, process wont even appear in task manager cuz steam is halting the launch and gets stuck on "preparing to launch" in infinite loop, restarting PC, steam and whatnot did not helped, adjusting launch parameters did not helped, adjusting preffered graphical processor to high performance mode did not helped (it runs high performance regardless I just wanted to eliminate that option), game doesnt launch neither on my OS SSD neither on my second SSD (my third SSD is the same as OS SSD and its full with games already so I didnt even tried to put the game there)... So clearly the issue aint really the game itself, its more like Steam halting the boot for the game because of some corrupt installation files or something, maybe the game got an update that corrupted the installation download hence steam cant boot the game up, yet reinstall should fix this issue but it did not so them corrupt files might be on steam servers somewhere... That is all I have for now, proper response from developer in normal PC guy terms would be great, not like the previous response about drivers and file verification.

[superpeen]

Originally posted by wUnp:

Originally posted by Goomes:

Ah, ok I see, sorry I misunderstood. A few preliminary questions: What are your PC specs? Have you attempted to verify your game files? And are your GPU drivers up-to-date?

Sorry mate but these questions about drivers up to date or specs are irrelevant. if my specs are good enough to run Cyberpunk at Ultra/Psycho settings with raytracing on at 60 FPS then my rig is clearly good enough for this game... and my drivers are always up to date cuz games like Hogwarts Legacy kinda require newer drivers to even run properly... I did said that I verified files and also reinstalled the game yet I am stuck on boot at steam "preparing to launch" popup when you startup any steam game its just this game wont boot at all and this popup is in endless loop... I also think that treating gamers same way as your grandma that has no clue about computers is kinda rude... every gamer keeps windows and drivers up to date and knows his rig capabilities unless hes a complete newbie. The question here is that WHY THE GAME IS STUCK ON STEAM BOOT LOOP not why it doesnt run properly or cant connect servers and whatnot...

Listen buddy we get it your whole personality revolves around your pc and the games you play but why do you have to be an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to someone that's trying to help you? just get your point across and move on no one that doesnt know you cares about you

Anyways yea all the periphery checks and actions on our end seem to be fine something with the server connection might be going on because it really doesnt seem to establish the right to launch lets say. the game begins launch then immediately after refreshes the cloud storage and then cancels the launch for an instant to start it back up and keep repeating the process over and over again. i have a nvidia 1660 with ryzen 5 3600 but my pc hasnt presented this issue before. im from eu btw

[cute]

Originally posted by Goomes:

Originally posted by superpeen:

no thats not the issue. The game doenst launch from steam at all, when we press play in our steam library the game launch initializes but it seems like its forced to shut down, before anything happens, and as soon as the cloud is synchronized ,which is in an instant (after the shut down), it relaunches into this infinite loop. Appreciate the response though.

Ah, ok I see, sorry I misunderstood. A few preliminary questions: What are your PC specs? Have you attempted to verify your game files? And are your GPU drivers up-to-date?

So i verified the local game files and nothing was mismatched, reinstalled the game and still nothing, running windows 11 pro, ryzen 5 2600, rtx 2060S, 32gb of ram and the game is installed on M.2 ssd. Drivers are up to date

[Born To Clutch]

Originally posted by cute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.com:

Originally posted by Goomes:

Ah, ok I see, sorry I misunderstood. A few preliminary questions: What are your PC specs? Have you attempted to verify your game files? And are your GPU drivers up-to-date?

So i verified the local game files and nothing was mismatched, reinstalled the game and still nothing, running windows 11 pro, ryzen 5 2600, rtx 2060S, 32gb of ram and the game is installed on M.2 ssd. Drivers are up to date

If you are till having issues with this I made a video for y'all. Hope this helps! https://youtu.be/2biYuKOa8Os

[とうきょう]

Originally posted by RazeDoxTv | YouTube:

Originally posted by cute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.com:

So i verified the local game files and nothing was mismatched, reinstalled the game and still nothing, running windows 11 pro, ryzen 5 2600, rtx 2060S, 32gb of ram and the game is installed on M.2 ssd. Drivers are up to date

If you are till having issues with this I made a video for y'all. Hope this helps! https://youtu.be/2biYuKOa8Os

As clearly stated, we are not experiencing crashes but steam cloud boot loop... So unless your video contains how to hack into steam servers and hijack the game from a different server where it aint bugged then I doubt the video gonna help at all. For regular crashes maybe but anything related to that I and the other person here we already tried and now its up to devs to fix the game files on steam servers... As we both also stated, this has never happened before...

[smsKONG]

Well no idea what the OP has because as we all now know - it doesn't matter what their hardware is as it runs Cyberpunk so should run anything..
But a common factor between the 2 reasonable people having the same issue seems to be a Ryzen 5 CPU.
So maybe it's something related to that CPU or a motherboard issue.
Just a thought.

[とうきょう]

Except I have intel CPU 11th gen

[とうきょう]

also if "steam cloud" is my HW issue, how can I play literally any steam game that uses steam cloud and gets verified and booted instantly? Its a game issue 110% and devs should look into it cuz them files are most likely corrupt on steam so if you are unlucky as me and the other guy, you get this problem, if you are lucky, your game was downloaded from uncorrupted servers.

edit: in case you didnt know, steam cloud has nothing to do with HW.

[smsKONG]

Originally posted by wUnp:

Except I have intel CPU 11th gen

Well there you go - I wouldn't have even needed to post if this tidbit had been offered up earlier.

I also never said that the devs wouldn't need to look into it, in fact if it had been an issue with an entire set or subset of CPUs not being able to boot the game I would assume the devs would definitely need to look into it.

[SSIXS]

Originally posted by wUnp:

also if "steam cloud" is my HW issue, how can I play literally any steam game that uses steam cloud and gets verified and booted instantly? Its a game issue 110% and devs should look into it cuz them files are most likely corrupt on steam so if you are unlucky as me and the other guy, you get this problem, if you are lucky, your game was downloaded from uncorrupted servers.

edit: in case you didnt know, steam cloud has nothing to do with HW.

It's not necessarily a "game issue 110%" as everyone runs the same exact game code, and seemingly only a few are having this particular issue. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say it's a Steam server issue, as Steam gets stupid from time to time.

That said, I've encountered a Steam cloud loop before in another game. To fix it I went into Offline mode on Steam, changed the Steam download server to Los Angeles (my default is Chicago) Then I shutdown Steam and went back online, and it was fixed. Ymmv...