Issue Description: When I press “Play” on Steam, the game attempts to launch, followed by the button returning to green to play the game again. Nothing happens. The game can launch using the “start_protected_game.exe” but then I am hit with the backend error. I have reinstalled the game numerous t…

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For good faith, I just retried all these listed things again. Still no luck.

I also have the backend error when starting protected game, tried every guide that has been posted, but nothing has worked.

Yeah, so it seems I’m not the only one stuck in this loop. I know I meet the requirements as well. I guess we just pray and hope they fix it soon. Or get another reply to try more stuff that hopefully I havnt tried.

Yup, tried every guide, nothing so far. Hoping at the very least they will provide a bypass launcher option when the game releases.

This may sound strange but have you tried re-updating windows? I had this same problem since the closed beta but I recently forced an update for windows 10 and now the game launches 100% of the time. It’s always worth a shot especially since you don’t lose any data by updating even by force

Theres no updates for me to install. What do you mean by force update?

I have the same issue , also on windows 11.

Game not launching on Steam

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FatsharkLev November 23, 2022, 1:48pm 2

Hi @krysred, have you tried all of the potential solutions here?

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Game not launching on Steam

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