Issue Description: Hi, Okay, so since the recent large update, I’ve been unable to play the game. The launcher opens just fine, but after pressing Play, the launcher closes, I get the “Windows Wait Cursor” for a short time, then nothing happens. Steam still says the game is running,. but even afte…

Okay, so as a quick update, the Game Pass version of the game opens up fine. I got as far as the First Time character select screen, then stopped to see if my Steam version would work. Sadly no dice there. I’m just Verifying the file integrity on Steam.

Sorry @MetalTigerlily , I appreciate you’ve been waiting a while, we are stuck on this admittedly. It’s still on our radar.

That’s okay. As long as you’re still looking into it. I’m attempting a full uninstall, and searching my files for anything related to the game, then a reinstall.

Have you tried installing the game in your C: drive? Also, knowing that this is kinda hardcore, formatting the PC and reinstalling the game should fix this issue It’s your C: drive an SSD? Have you modded the game at any point? Did it work at least once? Have you executed the game using the “Op…

Hi, thanks for the advice. I haven’t tried installing it on my C: drive (which is an SSD) so far, but I could try making space and seeing if I can. The drive it’s currently on seems to be fine. Not near capacity, HDD, and seems to be working well for other games. It did originally work and I have …

Just as a quick update, the reinstall still didn’t fix it. I did however notice this when looking at my task manager. I’m not fully savvy on software however, so I don’t know if this is helpful information. [image]

I got the energy back to give this another try. Thought I’d provide another launcher log to see if it provides any more info, and also inform you that if I go through the launcher when nothing happens, without stopping the game on Steam I then went to open the game manually from the Steamapp “Binari…

Attempted a reinstall with the game going to the same Hard Drive as my Operating System, and the Fatshark AppData Roaming file. Sadly no joy with that.

[image] Darktide not launching properly Technical Support My apologies for the delay on this. Could you please navigate to your Darktide AppData using the instructions below, and delete the 3 items pictured underneath: Press the Windows key + R Enter %appdata% within the…

It is a shot in the dark, but back to the monitor theory - are they for sure connected to your dedicated, as opposed to your integrated GPU ports?

Game won't open after selcting Play on the launcher

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FatsharkJulia September 15, 2023, 10:31am 27

Oh, if there’s no integrated GPU, no need. I’m not sure why else it would be having an issue with monitor detection - I’ll have a think on this.

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Game won't open after selcting Play on the launcher

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