Simply won't start.

[Rick!!]

Don't understand. I have an i9-11900K with an RTX 2070 and when i run the game it just terminates with no warning message. The event viewer in windows tells me there's a fatal error but provides no explanation.

You start the game, then it just stops.

I can only imagine this has something to do with the Unreal engine since a couple of other VR games I have won't run with virtual desktop on my quest 2 and only run wired, but they give verbose error messages.

[Daveed]

I'm having this problem too... It launches, immediately closes, attempts to launch again, immediately closes again, over and over... It keeps going like this until I cancel the game launch from within Steam

[Daveed]

Hm, nevermind... Solved this with a reboot. Game works fine now.

[TheUndead_cat]

I'm seriously having the same issues, hopefully a reboot fixes it cause heck am I a bit exited for this vr puzzle game since I love the genre

[Rick!!]

Someone on reddit had the solution, for another game using the same unpatched unreal engine:

Right click on "this computer" then properties (or right click the windows 10 button and go to System)

Then right hand side "advanced system settings"

On the Advanced tab choose Evironment Variables

In THE SECOND window click NEW

Enter name

OPENSSL_ia32cap

Enter value

~0x200000200000000

Then click OK

1 last important step

REBOOT SYSTEM

---- That's it, it works, EVE: Valkyrie works, and there's a couple others i'm going to check as soon as I reinstall them. Credit to /u/BsA-Soulreaver

[Knight]

Originally posted by El_Contador:

Someone on reddit had the solution, for another game using the same unpatched unreal engine:

Right click on "this computer" then properties (or right click the windows 10 button and go to System)

Then right hand side "advanced system settings"

On the Advanced tab choose Evironment Variables

In THE SECOND window click NEW

Enter name

OPENSSL_ia32cap

Enter value

~0x200000200000000

Then click OK

1 last important step

REBOOT SYSTEM

---- That's it, it works, EVE: Valkyrie works, and there's a couple others i'm going to check as soon as I reinstall them. Credit to /u/BsA-Soulreaver

Thank you SO MUCH!

[Rick!!]

Super glad you found this. It's only because of a kind redditor who saw my comment and said "hey this guy found a solution in a totally different game". I want to make sure anyone having trouble with an old UE4 game on their Quest or whatever VR system in Windows 10 knows this stuff. If you have another game where it utterly would not load due to this glitch, PLEASE PASS IT ON!!!!!!

[Big Jim Buffalino]

Will this mess or change anything for my whole system? As I have no idea what all that stuff above is changing, and only have this issue with Red Matter, any help be much appreciated

[Rick!!]

Not at all Big Jim. It's just a setting for applications using OpenSSL. It's the same as opening a CMD window and typing "set OPENSSL_ia32cap=:~0x20000000" into it.

https://www.openssl.org/docs/manmaster/man3/OPENSSL_ia32cap.html is a bit of documentation. This only affects applications using OpenSSL which is commercial software, not part of the operating system, not part of your web browser.

[Big Jim Buffalino]

Thanks El_ Contador, this has fixed three games I couldn't play now also, Narcosis and Obduction

[Rick!!]

Thank the redditor who posted that solution. It's sad that devs don't patch their games if they don't feel they'll make more money..

IF you see someone having a problem with a UE4 game with the same symptom (won't start on new gen intel processors please post to that forum. Though the devs gave up, we shouldn't. Would you mind posting the solution to the Narcosis forum?

[decorus_veritas]

El_Contador, my heartfelt thanks to you and the redditors! Excited about my new valve index and my new VR computer, I was pretty disappointed when Red Matter, Narcosis, and a number of other games wouldn't load. Then I found this forum. Tried the solution and it immediately worked for all of them. Truly, this discussion thread represents the best of the gaming community -- players working together to share knowledge. I've passed this solution along to a couple of threads over on the Narcosis forum. Hopefully the word will get out.

[Rick!!]

Originally posted by decorus_veritas:

El_Contador, my heartfelt thanks to you and the redditors! Excited about my new valve index and my new VR computer, I was pretty disappointed when Red Matter, Narcosis, and a number of other games wouldn't load. Then I found this forum. Tried the solution and it immediately worked for all of them. Truly, this discussion thread represents the best of the gaming community -- players working together to share knowledge. I've passed this solution along to a couple of threads over on the Narcosis forum. Hopefully the word will get out.

It's a bit of a symptom that early PCVR games were kinda left out to rot after a while because they probably didn't recoup their expenses making them. Obviously making stuff for Quest is the current pile of gold for developers, even if the Quest is kinda... well .. underpowered. I didn't find the solution - i just shouted it in every forum for a game I had that hadn't been working until that point so that someone would pick it up and run with it.

I didn't have Narcosis (or possibly other UE4 games you had) so maybe you can post the solution there and keep this going? Some devs like the guys who did Obduction did update their games after finding the solution, which is nice.. but i imagine that game would be getting 1-2 sales a day at this point, and not worth anyone's time to update.

[Yulen]

Thanks, it worked for me as well

[Tantalius]

glad the fix is working for everyone else. sucks for me but it didnt help. anyone have other ways they solved the issue?

[GmoLargey]

Fix worked second time around, done it and restarted and didn't work.

Second time I clicked ok, made sure it was showing in the list and did not restart, game fired straight up.

Thanks!!!