game does not load no matter what ive tried

[Davinnigon]

so i bought this yesterday on my birthday cus it looked fun i open it up and it just opens then closes instantly ive tried moving it from my ssd external to my internal, ive tried opining it as admin user ive even tried verifying the integrity i have also re installed the game nothing seems to be working and i really want to play this game but at this rate should i give up and refund the game?

[Davinnigon]

Okay, so after hours of messing with the game I found a fix. Run it in compatibility mode under Windows 8, then once the game boots, change the resolution to "Window Mode". Now you can close the game and turn off compatibility mode. Once it boots up again, the window will be too large, just change it to borderless fullscreen and you can play! Hope this helps people!

[FirstNameFirst]

Same problem...Your suggestion helped me...it started on windows 8. thanks

[stretch]

Opening a game in fullscreen is a pretty common cause of this insta crash thing on startup.
If you had not figured it yourself I would have suggested it.

Quite often you can go find a games config file and change a value. It would probably have a .cfg file extension. Sometimes lives in the main games directories but might be in with the save files. You would have to search for that which can be the longest step in the process.

In Steam you can RMB the games name and browse local files or it might be in your C:\Users\yournamehere\AppData\Local or LocalLow or Roaming or maybe even in C:\Users\yournamehere\Documents\ or C:\Users\yournamehere\Documents\SavedGames
ie change 'Fullscreen true' to 'Fullscreen false' or Fullscreen 1' to "Fullscreen 0'. Sometimes it will be 'windowed' or whatever but it is often easy to figure out.

Windows notepad is often enough to open a config file to edit it.

[koki8810]

Hello, can you help me where I must switch compatibility to win 8?

[stretch]

Off the top of my head you should try:
In your Steam library RightMouseButton on the title of the game and select 'manage' - 'browse local files'
Somewhere in there should be an application with the file extension .exe.
RMB on this and go to whatever tab has the option. 'Properties' then 'Compatibility' I think. There should be a setting on that page.

[SirKillerBubba]

In the game's resources directory (ie. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt\resources), there is an app.icf file in the main directory that you can open with Notepad and edit the line which reads:

FixScreenOrientation = 1 and change it to FixScreenOrientation = 0

This fixed it for Windows 10 on my machine :)

[MoneyMan]

FYI I had this problem and nothing fixed it except updating my NVIDIA drivers, so I would recommend trying that