Payday 2 Beta not launching

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Smiothy10 Jul 29, 2013 @ 11:53am

When I first installed the beta and clicked play, it switched my monitor off. Now whenever I click play a small, squished up taskbar window shows up in the middle of my screen for half a second then goes away.

Ive tried deleting local content and reinstalling it 3 times.
Ive tried verifying cache 2 times.
Ive tried reinstalling drivers.
Ive tried the Nvidia control panel fix.
Ive tried the intel/fallout one just to see if that worked.
Ive tried going into the launch options and getting it to launch into window mode.
Ive tried running it as an adminstrator.
Ive tried running it in compatability mode.

All of these options havn't worked on my end and I'm wondering if anyone can think of something to help?

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Satoru Jul 29, 2013 @ 12:02pm

What areyour system spcs

The two ton terror of Tel-Aviv Jul 29, 2013 @ 12:08pm

hey guys

Morpheus6356 Jul 29, 2013 @ 12:18pm

Hi HI

Smiothy10 Jul 29, 2013 @ 12:19pm

Got it fixed there, turns out in my Appdata > Payday 2 folder the render file had nothing in it, friend copied the text and I just pasted it straight onto the file and it works now.

Thanks for your time though :D

Hoser Jul 30, 2013 @ 6:47pm

@Smiothy10 what was the text? I have the same problem. as well, how did you get to your appdata > payday 2 folder?

Smiothy10 Jul 31, 2013 @ 4:41am

Go to C:\Users\Your name\Appdata\Local\PAYDAY 2 and then click on the file that says "renderer_settings" if you can't open it up just right click and edit and it'll open in notepad automatically.

If all of the notepad is just empty just delete all the empty space then paste in the code below. Hope that helps ^^


<renderer_config>
<d3d_device
adapter = "NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS"
adapter_index = "0"
resolution = "1920 1080"
windowed = "false"
refresh_rate = "60"
aspect_ratio = "1.77778"
v_sync = "0"
/>
<render_settings>
<variable name="max_anisotropy" value="8"/>
<variable name="texture_quality_default" value="high"/>
</render_settings>
</renderer_config>

KF Jul 31, 2013 @ 4:44am

wow

Springpaw Jul 31, 2013 @ 8:41am

The only files I have in Payday 2 is crash and crashlog, litterally nothing else

Please help me

Last edited by Springpaw; Jul 31, 2013 @ 8:41am

Niko Jul 31, 2013 @ 8:44am

I can't find the render settings file :|

™`BranD`™♡ Jul 31, 2013 @ 8:51am

фуууууу пидр

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Niko Jul 31, 2013 @ 9:09am

The only files in my "C:\Users\Your name\Appdata\Local\PAYDAY 2" are a crash.txt and crashlog.txt file, no render_settings.

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Niko Jul 31, 2013 @ 9:15am

Here are some interesting things within the crash texts if anyone can make sense of these:

Application has crashed: C++ exception
[File] Cannot open "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\PAYDAY 2 Beta\assets\all275\7955" => error code 3: The system cannot find the path specified. (d:\projects\engine7f_related\engine7f_payday2_pc_beta\engine\dieselx\dieselx\blobs\../utility/Archive.cpp:1749)

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Callstack:

payday2_win32_release (???) ???
payday2_win32_release (???) ???
payday2_win32_release (???) ???
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payday2_win32_release (???) ???
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payday2_win32_release (???) ???
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