Hello,
I have recently gotten back into playing after an extended absence and when I attempted to launch the game, it failed. This was actually related to why I stopped playing in the first place: suddenly I couldn't launch the game. However, after debugging for a little while and trying to determine the problem, and seeing that all of the posts related to crash on launch were in regards to an audio driver issue, I started looking into my drivers and had the realization that I'd seen a problem like this before (with Minecraft).
I unplugged the docking stations from my laptop and launched the game without them connected (which meant the displaylink driver on my device was inactive) and the game launched perfectly fine and I have played with no technical issues since. However, I noticed a few interesting things:
If there's any additional info I can provide that would be of help, don't hesitate to ask! Big fan of the game, would love to see this issue resolved.
I have recently gotten back into playing after an extended absence and when I attempted to launch the game, it failed. This was actually related to why I stopped playing in the first place: suddenly I couldn't launch the game. However, after debugging for a little while and trying to determine the problem, and seeing that all of the posts related to crash on launch were in regards to an audio driver issue, I started looking into my drivers and had the realization that I'd seen a problem like this before (with Minecraft).
I unplugged the docking stations from my laptop and launched the game without them connected (which meant the displaylink driver on my device was inactive) and the game launched perfectly fine and I have played with no technical issues since. However, I noticed a few interesting things:
- The issue only exists at startup. I can launch the game without being connected to the docking stations, then after reaching the "press spacebar" screen (earlier sometimes causes a crash) I can reconnect the docking stations and run the game as you would expect.
- The first time I played, I played with a docking station connected. I noticed when I stopped playing that an update had just been released and after installing the update, I suddenly couldn't launch the game. Assuming that the same issue wasn't caused by two different things then and now, that means something changed in the game code that started this issue happening rather than it being on displaylink's side. I don't recall exactly when this issue cropped up (sorry), but I know it was a patch pre-1.5 and now with the latest updates I still can't launch with the docking stations connected.
- laptop: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0865RZR9S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
- docking stations:
If there's any additional info I can provide that would be of help, don't hesitate to ask! Big fan of the game, would love to see this issue resolved.