Interesting Bug (Game won't start - sorta)
So I've got an interesting problem that I just can't seem to figure out. I've got around 150 hours in the game and have had minimal issues, just some CTDs occasionally but that's really it, otherwise the game has ran great. However yesterday my game crashed and then wouldn't start again, no error message, nothing, just says in Steam "preparing to launch" then nothing. However the Witcher 3 process shows in the Task Manager. Below are the things I've tried.
Honestly I thought those would do the trick, but it didn't. However the game did start after the reinstall and I thought I was good to go so I moved my saves back into the User Docs folder and restarted the game. Back to square one, game won't launch, no error, nothing in event viewer, yet the Witcher 3 process is running in Task Manager. So I thought maybe I have a corrupt save that's causing issue, so I removed the saves and attempted to restart. Nothing, same results. So I thought the settings files might be corrupt somehow, so I deleted the entire Witcher 3 folder in User Docs (gamesaves folder & user and input settings) and tried to launch the game. It starts, creating new files. So I redo my settings, exit the game, and attempt to restart. No dice, game won't launch again and same as before, process is running in Task.
So in order to play the game I have to nuke the User Documents > Witcher 3 folder (contains gamesaves and settings) to launch the game. Once the game is started and at the title screen I can tab out and paste my saves in the folder to load them and play. I just played a 4hr session no problem. However it's very annoying to have to redo all settings, and I mean all settings, and paste in my saves every time I launch the game.
I'm stumped here and need some advice.
So to summarize:
Below are specs
So I've got an interesting problem that I just can't seem to figure out. I've got around 150 hours in the game and have had minimal issues, just some CTDs occasionally but that's really it, otherwise the game has ran great. However yesterday my game crashed and then wouldn't start again, no error message, nothing, just says in Steam "preparing to launch" then nothing. However the Witcher 3 process shows in the Task Manager. Below are the things I've tried.
- Verify Integrity via Steam
- Delete settings files in User Documents
- Complete reinstall of the game.
Honestly I thought those would do the trick, but it didn't. However the game did start after the reinstall and I thought I was good to go so I moved my saves back into the User Docs folder and restarted the game. Back to square one, game won't launch, no error, nothing in event viewer, yet the Witcher 3 process is running in Task Manager. So I thought maybe I have a corrupt save that's causing issue, so I removed the saves and attempted to restart. Nothing, same results. So I thought the settings files might be corrupt somehow, so I deleted the entire Witcher 3 folder in User Docs (gamesaves folder & user and input settings) and tried to launch the game. It starts, creating new files. So I redo my settings, exit the game, and attempt to restart. No dice, game won't launch again and same as before, process is running in Task.
So in order to play the game I have to nuke the User Documents > Witcher 3 folder (contains gamesaves and settings) to launch the game. Once the game is started and at the title screen I can tab out and paste my saves in the folder to load them and play. I just played a 4hr session no problem. However it's very annoying to have to redo all settings, and I mean all settings, and paste in my saves every time I launch the game.
I'm stumped here and need some advice.
So to summarize:
- Have played 150hrs with virtually no problems
- Game crashed and wouldn't restart
- Did complete reinstall to no avail
- Game will only start if I delete the contets of the User Doc > Withcher 3 folder everytime before I attempt to start the game.
- Once game is started I can paste my game saves in and continue but must redo all settings each time
Below are specs
- I5 3570K
- GTX 980
- 16GB RAM
- Witcher 3 installed on Samsung Spinpoint F3
- Windows 7
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