Game not responding at launch

[grim shaddo]

About a week ago my game started crashing after I click the play button to open it from the launcher. I just get a black screen and nothing happens. In the debug console I see it is stopping after initializing fonts. (Screenshot below is successful game start showing where logs stop now.) There have been no hardware or settings changes prior to this happening. I've verified the game files and checked for updates on the video card.

 

 

The only thing that gets me back in is checking "Reset graphics on next run", but I have to do it every time I run the game, which is less than ideal. Any suggestions on a fix or even a workaround? I thought about adding the extra launch parameter for resetting graphics so that maybe it won't get removed every time, but I can't find the parameter. I read someone talking about "usetexenvcombine" but that didn't do anything for me.

 

TIA!!!

 

[Captain Fabulous]

Do you have an AMD card? Is this a laptop? It's been reported there are some OpenGL issues in some AMD drivers.

You can also try running this from a command prompt with administrator privileges, see if it finds anything.

sfc /scannow

[Captain Fabulous]

You can try adding -gfxreset to the launch parameters box, see if that does the trick.

[grim shaddo]

It is a laptop, but an NVIDIA card. I did run sfc /scannow and it came back with no issues. Lo and behold the -gfxreset has done the trick! May Statesman and Manticore show favor upon you 🙂