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So one by one each of my rigs has stopped being able to launch this game and it all mysteriously started happening at the start of the month.
I've put in over 4 hours across the last two weeks trying to figure it out and it's safe to say I've covered all the normal bases, if something can be updated, uninstalled/reinstalled, I've probably done it. I've deleted cache folders and various other folders, and nada. Old drivers and new drivers don't make a difference even with DDU in safe mode. Turned off overlays and disabled MS AB and reinstalled the game more times than I can remember, no mods after reinstall. I thought I made progress a few days ago when I finally got it to launch on one rig (5800X3D), tested it several more times that night and by the next day it was borked again.
What happens is after clicking on play I see it sync and then it stops and when I try to restart it again the launcher tells me it didn't close properly the last time and offers to run in safe mode which doesn't do anything.
Basically I need some kind of weird fix nobody would normally think of because I tried, to my knowledge, every kind of possible normal fix for this. I've got a thread going on Steam (under my old username Lost In 3d) but nobody has been able to provide helpful suggestions, although they have tried. The only info I've been able to find is in the qconsole log which indicates an NVIDIA related issue "SLinit failed error code 018". I now this relates to DLSS/FG but I cannot find any way to fix this. Even tried tweaking and resetting things via NV APP and Profile Inspector. I've also noticed the game fails to create a config file during this.
The rigs this is happening on are 5800X3D/RTX 5090, 9800X3D/RTX 5090, laptop Intel 275HX/mobile RTX 5090 (which is desktop RTX 5080). There's a chance I might do a full Windows reset on the 9800X3D rig since I don't really have any other apps beyond launchers and MS AB on it but I'm hesitant because I feel that even if it works this will still happen again. The laptop was working for most of last weekend and by Sunday it too had the same problem.
I truly appreciate any thoughts but as mentioned, I've already tried all the obvious things and a handful of less than obvious tricks. I swear it seems like there's something simple at play here but for the life of me I cannot find it and I've searched about a dozen threads to no avail.
I've put in over 4 hours across the last two weeks trying to figure it out and it's safe to say I've covered all the normal bases, if something can be updated, uninstalled/reinstalled, I've probably done it. I've deleted cache folders and various other folders, and nada. Old drivers and new drivers don't make a difference even with DDU in safe mode. Turned off overlays and disabled MS AB and reinstalled the game more times than I can remember, no mods after reinstall. I thought I made progress a few days ago when I finally got it to launch on one rig (5800X3D), tested it several more times that night and by the next day it was borked again.
What happens is after clicking on play I see it sync and then it stops and when I try to restart it again the launcher tells me it didn't close properly the last time and offers to run in safe mode which doesn't do anything.
Basically I need some kind of weird fix nobody would normally think of because I tried, to my knowledge, every kind of possible normal fix for this. I've got a thread going on Steam (under my old username Lost In 3d) but nobody has been able to provide helpful suggestions, although they have tried. The only info I've been able to find is in the qconsole log which indicates an NVIDIA related issue "SLinit failed error code 018". I now this relates to DLSS/FG but I cannot find any way to fix this. Even tried tweaking and resetting things via NV APP and Profile Inspector. I've also noticed the game fails to create a config file during this.
The rigs this is happening on are 5800X3D/RTX 5090, 9800X3D/RTX 5090, laptop Intel 275HX/mobile RTX 5090 (which is desktop RTX 5080). There's a chance I might do a full Windows reset on the 9800X3D rig since I don't really have any other apps beyond launchers and MS AB on it but I'm hesitant because I feel that even if it works this will still happen again. The laptop was working for most of last weekend and by Sunday it too had the same problem.
I truly appreciate any thoughts but as mentioned, I've already tried all the obvious things and a handful of less than obvious tricks. I swear it seems like there's something simple at play here but for the life of me I cannot find it and I've searched about a dozen threads to no avail.
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