Steam Games won't launch!! [SOLVE]

[Beer Baron]

Some games crash when I try to play them (The Evil Within, Danganronpa V3 Demo, Strider, Naruto Ninja Storm 4) but other games I can launch them(Doom 2016 Vulkan, KoF 13, Sonic Generations). I also can run games on other plataforms (Overwatch, Quake Champions, etc).
I already try:
Verify Integrity of Game Files
Clear Download Cache
Reinstall Steam
Reinstall games
Check for Windows Updates
Repair Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 x64 and x86

If this can help, I have the same issues as this guy:
Steam Games Crash

OLD FIX: Erase GameOverlayRenderer64.dll
No thanks to Steam support, thanks OSO.

FIX: Upgrade to Rivatuner Statistics Server 7.0.0 (that is included with MSI Afterburner 4.4.0).
Thanks BAM.

[BAM]

OMG, i was about to format my comp and searched for the last 6 hours on google and tried every solution that has remotely to do with "steam won't launch anything". i must tried like 30 different solution. just when all was lost, i thought why would this solution be any different. it worked. thanks to google. had i not filter my search based on time (search quiteria: last week only). i would've never stumble on this thread. this needs to be sticki'ed! !@#!@$#@ steam, you give me my last 6 hours back!

EDIT: and yes, thanks OSO. you deserve a !@#$!@# medal or something. !

[BurntJello]

A new version of GameOverlayRenderer64.dll (previously: 4.17.60.88)(now: 4.18.13.29) was released today and does NOT fix the problem.

[BurntJello]

GameOverlayRenderer64.dll 4.20.0.18
Still broken.

[BAM]

same here. 10/25/2017, overlayRenderer64.dll still broken on my Win7 Pro. when is this going to be fixed.

[x4v!]

same here. 10/25/2017, overlayRenderer64.dll still broken on my Win7 Pro. when is this going to be fixed.

[Beer Baron]

Originally posted by BAM:

same here. 10/25/2017, overlayRenderer64.dll still broken on my Win7 Pro. when is this going to be fixed.

No idea, but for now use the work around to avoid that annoying crash.

[BAM]

For me the new Rivatuner Statistics Server Version 7 fixed the problem. may or may not apply to you, but try to upgrade to Version 7.

[Beer Baron]

Originally posted by BAM:

For me the new Rivatuner Statistics Server Version 7 fixed the problem. may or may not apply to you, but try to upgrade to Version 7.

Thank you for your answer BAM, and I have good news. RSS with GameOverlayRenderer64.dll was causing the crash. I will post the new solution in the main post.

[BurntJello]

Confirmed.

Updated to MSI Afterburner 440 (includes Rivatuner7).
Rivatuner added an "injection delay" option. The tooltip specifically mentions it is used to bypass x64 steam overlay trying to have exclusive overlay access.

Steam broke it. Rivatuner worked around it.
It's just sad that disabling steam overlay doesn't actually DISABLE it.

[Vixs]

I've been having this issue as well, it made all my games not load. I tried all fixes I could find and nothing worked.
So I started a trial and error process with programs I have installed on my laptop. In the end I found the culprit for me; "Razer Synapse"
If I have this program for my Razer mouse running, steam won't load games (odd because ive had this mouse and program for years with no issue)
If you have this installed, close Razor Synapse before launching steam games.
If you use some keybinds via synapse for some steam games like I do, this means having to then open synapse after the game has successfully launched and closing it again before trying to launch a different game.
I haven't tried updating synapse yet, to see if that fixes the issue without having to close the program all the time, but I will soon. Just wanted to add my crash culprit to this in case It can help anyone else.

[Yako Blaze]

Bumping for moderators, I'm having the same issue with 3 games now.

[Beer Baron]

Originally posted by Jack0mo:

Bumping for moderators, I'm having the same issue with 3 games now.

Try disable all the overlays(or others background programs) and run each game that have that problem.

NOTE: In the last months Steam have a lot of problems with some overlays and cause that some games crash at launch.

[诱饵]

I'll look at it.

[hqreptiles]

Having this problem with Feed and Grow Fish and Lego Worlds, but Octogedden works just fine. April 10, 2018.

[BigDaddyElios]

Originally posted by OSO:

Delete or move the GameOverlayRenderer64.dll file in your steam folder and you should be able to launch your games. It worked for me. Google it there have been many with this same problem.
Steam will re download the file when you open steam again and you will have to delete it or move it again. Hope this helps.

It Worked! now all my games run correctly, thx.