Game doesn't start

[Dein Exfreund]

Since 9 hours I can not start Three Kingdoms. Yesterday everything worked fine but now nothing works. It will come to the opening logos [where all the studios emblems are] and shortly after the game crashes/stopped working.

I deleted all the mods, de- and reinstalled Steam also as Three Kingdoms, tried to run the game as administrator, made the exlusive antivirus list for Steam and everything else, still nothing helped.

I have no problem with running and playing WarHammer III or other games it's just Three Kingdoms.

Any suggestions for a quick "auto-resolve" lol? :D

[Yer big neebur]

I'm having the exact same problem but it's been like that for a few days now, no idea how to fix it unfortunately

[Dein Exfreund]

I fixed it by myself :D

[Dein Exfreund]

Your game's preferences & cached data may be corrupt and/or have an incorrect system that is stopping your game from functioning correctly. Making a backup of your preferences & caches files and try the game to see if it now loads without any issues.

- Right-click on your blank space on your desktop screen and select 'New' -> 'Folder'.

- Create a folder and name it something to distinguish it i.e. TW backup.

- Once you've done this go to your Creative Assembly folder which by default can be accessed at the following location on PC:

C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly

By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:



For Windows® 10 & 11

1. In the search box on the taskbar, type control panel, and then select Control Panel.

2. Choose Folder Options under Appearance and Personalization.

3. Click the Options icon on the right of the ribbon.

4. In the Folder Options dialog box, select the View tab.

5. Select Show hidden files, folders, and drives.

6. Deselect Hide extensions for known file types and click OK.

This should contain folders for all the TW games. Please move the entire folder from here and place them into the folder you've created on your desktop.

Once you've done this and the Creative Assembly folder is not at the Roaming folder anymore, start the game. If it works, copy back the folder from the desktop folder and see if it now loads without any issues.

Try a different Windows account


That helped me