shadow of mordor not opening!!

[MasterWizardo]

so i'm 5 hours into playing shadow of mordor and was changing the in-game graphical setting for the game to see which one suited my computer best. the next time i tried to open the game, it only opened on my taskbar and will not open up to the full screen. the game plays on the window from the taskbar but it just refuses to maximise

so i have tried verifying the game files, troubleshooting, unistalling and reinstalling it and nothing seems to work. it is quite irritating! does anybody have any idea what i could do?

[doudee]

get your money back then buy it again

[MasterWizardo]

i can only assume you are trying to be funny right? because that's the same as uninstalling then reinstalling

[Washell]

Delete the config file:

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Middle-earth:_Shadow_of_Mordor#Configuration_file.28s.29_location

[MasterWizardo]

why would i want to delete that? also, something new just came up when i tried to start it. a message said 'intsalled video device does not support DirectX 11 features'. i have a GTX 1080 GPU

[Washell]

Originally posted by kearneynathan:

why would i want to delete that?

Because it will put the game back on a default config, thus fixing your issue.

[MasterWizardo]

ok. it might have done something but im still getting the message that the installed video device does not support directX11 featues so i dont know

[Washell]

Sounds like it's using the onboard GPU. DId you plug in the monitor into another port? Or is it a laptop?

[MasterWizardo]

yeah i think that might be what is going on because i've noticed the graphical quality isnt up to what it should be. I'll let you know if it works. Thanks mate!

[MasterWizardo]

PC btw

[The Giving One]

From the link the good Washell gave you, you can see the .cfg file's location.......

%USERPROFILE%\Documents\WB Games\Shadow of Mordor

Therefore, reinstalling the game will not fix that type of issue you have. Because uninstalling Steam games only removed the content from within the common folder where your games are installed under Steam.

It won't uninstall/remove upon uninstallation that .cfg file, so that same configuration is kept after you reinstall the game.

[MasterWizardo]

so, i think i know what the problem is. apparently there is no directx 12 installed on my pc, the disc i got didnt come with it for some reason. so does anyone know where i would be able to download and install directx 12? i have been looking for it on the windows site but have not been able to find it. any ideas?

[MasterWizardo]

thanks? any actual ideas?

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[The Giving One]

Originally posted by kearneynathan:

so, i think i know what the problem is. apparently there is no directx 12 installed on my pc, the disc i got didnt come with it for some reason. so does anyone know where i would be able to download and install directx 12? i have been looking for it on the windows site but have not been able to find it. any ideas?

In the case of drivers for your system, never use the disk unless you need to in order to just get online (network controller drivers), then you go to the official website of the manufacturer and download and install the latest versions of drivers/software.

Not sure what disk you are speaking of, but my reply concerns drivers as well as Microsoft packages. Usually, the games and Windows install these for you, but there are cases where they may not.

Originally posted by kearneynathan:

thanks? any actual ideas?

No need to reply to spam posts. Thanks.

[MasterWizardo]

so i did uninstall all the drivers, went on to the official website and installed the latest drivers directly from there. but i still have the problem with DirectX12. i can't seem to find out where to install it. i'm told it should be a simple process to install it from the microsoft website

the disk i'm referring to is the one that comes with the GPU in the box with it.