Game crashes on startup

[Lord Ernie]

Hello,

 

I've only recenlty found out about this project and wanted very badly to try it out. I've just finished downloading Tequila, and running it, following the installation guide on the forums. Everything seemed to be going OK (no need for admin on Tequila or anything), but as soon as I hit the play button, the game client crashes. Not tequila, since I get the old "City of Heroes has stopped working" error message.

 

I checked the windows event log, but it doesn't have much more information, or at least, not that I can make sense of:

 

Quote

Faulting application name: homecoming.exe, version: 1.0.0.1, time stamp: 0x5d373741
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xe0464645
Fault offset: 0x521eb395
Faulting process ID: 0x412c
Faulting application start time: 0x01d54535e7d3c704
Faulting application path: C:\Games\City of Heroes\homecoming.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report ID: 569cc86d-36d9-4d03-947b-de5b190aba1c
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

 

I'm running Windows 10 with all the latest updates, no virus scanner, on my gaming laptop (an ASUS rog zephyrus gx501vi-gz021t), 16 gb ram, Nvidia GTX 1080 MaxQ.

 

Anyone a clue as to what's going on? Any further information or logs I can provide?

 

Thanks for your help.

[Lord Ernie]

Got it fixed, once.

 

I ran through all the troubleshooting options this morning, exceptions to Windows Defender, the works, but nothing really helped. The only thing that finally got the game running was to turn on Compatiblity Mode, and enable Windows 7 compatibility. After changing some of the graphics options (mostly, switching to a higher resolution), I exited and wanted to restart, at which point it crashed again.

 

Now, we're back to immediate crash on startup. I'll keep looking, but any help would be appreciated.

Edited July 31, 2019 by Lord Ernie

[WanderingAries]

I don't have the steps to follow off hand, but there are display scaling options that you should turn down to either 100% or 125% as the 150% breaks old stuff. I've seen apps not load at all with the higher setting.

[microc]

if your laptop has intel or amd gpu and nvidia make sure the intel or amd gpu is turned off and only the nvidia gaming gpu is on.