[SOLVED] Game won't launch

[AdderTude]

This is getting really annoying. Before the DLCs came out, I played and finished the campaign and completed the Slayer's shelf of collectables. However, I just bought the season pass from the QuakeCon sale on Steam and lo and behold, the game now refuses to properly launch after reinstalling it on my computer. All the game will do is show "Running" on Steam but the idTechLauncher file just hangs with 0% CPU power and a measly 28.6 MB of memory running.

Verifying the game files didn't solve the issue and my NVIDIA GPU driver is up-to-date (v471.68 according to GeForce Experience).

Help is greatly appreciated.

EDIT: As it turns out, a comment on YouTube gave me an idea. When they mentioned having a similar issue after installing Xsplit, I went off a hunch and uninstalled Action! from my PC entirely (which I don't really need anymore because of GeForce Experience's recording feature doing a better job). Immediately after uninstalling Action!, I tried running the game again.

It worked.

[galay]

Same problem(
It don't start.

[Invictus]

+1

[Anunnaki]

i had the same problem.it was basically like this: me play game,me like game,me quit game,and now i cant start it again. bullsh##

[Crusader]

i have the same issue, i just bought the game

[K.D.R]

also having this problem right now. and i just bought the ag1 dlc.

[Cursed Slayer]

bethesda

[Mre]

♥♥♥♥ the makers of this game, I've tried all kinds of ways and it's not working for me either.

[AdderTude]

Originally posted by Kuro:

Try this to see if it fixes it. Mine tried pulling integrated graphics and wouldn’t work until after this. Had to change idtechlauncher to Nvidia graphics.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HYH86BsraYQ

Not sure if yours is caused by the same as mine but worth a shot.

I only have the one GPU, so integrated graphics aren't even a thing in my rig.

[brimstone]

you sure? cause like 90%+ of cpus have an igpu nowadays.

[AdderTude]

Originally posted by cbd:

you sure? cause like 90%+ of cpus have an igpu nowadays.

It's fine now. Dude on YouTube mentioned in a comment how their broadcast software was the culprit. I uninstalled Action! and the game works fine now. Therefore, if none of the technical fixes seem to do anything, check to see if you have any recording software. Action! and Xsplit interfere with idTechLauncher and cause the game to hang before it can properly start.

[brimstone]

disabling background apps is one of the first things you should do when troubleshooting.

[TragoDMas]

Me ocurria lo mismo... se me congelaba al inicio, casi ssiempre al teletranportarme.
Tenia los ultimos drivers Nvidia 471.68
He instalado los anteriores y ... PROBLEMA SOLUCIONADO !!!!!!1111|||||111!!!||||111

[AdderTude]

Originally posted by cbd:

disabling background apps is one of the first things you should do when troubleshooting.

It's not just any background apps, since I have several running at low draw. It's broadcasting/recording software specifically that causes the game to hang on launch. Xsplit or Action! won't even be running at all. Just the fact that they're installed on the system apparently causes the issue. At least that's what my case was with Action! prior to uninstalling it.

[brimstone]

yeah i know, recording software and overlays are known to cause issues with vulkan