PAYDAY2 not starting

[leaden plaza]

Saddly the only way to fix this is to install a mod

[willow ruin]

just any mod or something specific?

[leaden plaza]

Yeah look up cleartexturecache and its by tdlq

[willow ruin]

alright im gonan try that

[willow ruin]

@leaden plaza not sure if i did it right but no change

[leaden plaza]

You have to create a mod folder in payday 2's game files

[willow ruin]

Yea I did that

Followed all the steps but it changed nothing so idk

[grim fulcrum]

I have the same issue of pressing play and it says launching then goes back to play. But I don't even have a payday 2 folder on local app data so I can't see a crash report

[willow ruin]

Yea nothing I’ve done fixed the issue, just randomly started doing it now I can’t fix it

[grim fulcrum]

I used to have lots of mods. But I have deleted all files and redownloaded the game like 5 times since then and verified everytime but it doesn't seem to fix it

[willow ruin]

Yea I’ve never used a mod and it did it so idk

[grim fulcrum]

anyone know how to fix?

[sonic arch]

Did you manually delete all game files or did you uninstall the game using the option from steam?

[willow ruin]

I did both and no change

[sonic arch]

Perhaps residual game files in another folder that you missed? Backup perhaps?

[willow ruin]

No I checked them all

I’ve tried the cleartextture mod, verifying game files, reinstalling, pretty much anything and no fix

I haven’t had any spec changes or anything in my pc since the last time I played so I’ve got no clue how this even started

[grim fulcrum]

Same still for me

[grim fulcrum]

Since it launched on epic games.

[scenic marsh]

Your geforce sees a good bit out of date, I would update drivers first then work from there

[willow ruin]

I’m using the most recent drivers and I’ve tried reinstalling

[scenic marsh]

Crash log said you were behind on drivers by a good handful

[willow ruin]

Well I’ve got the most recent installed so idk what’s up with that

I did also completely remove them and reinstall and still no change

[scenic marsh]

31.0.15.4633 is latest driver, geforce driver 546.33 - crashlog said you had 531.18 from feb 2023

[willow ruin]

looking at it right now on geforce and it says ive got 546.33 installed

[scenic marsh]

Was going by your crashlog at the time, hence my suggestion. If you're on latest now that's good, but you were nearly a year behind when you posted

[willow ruin]

yea i think that crash was from 2 ish weeks ago

heres a crash from the 8th of january: Application has crashed: C++ exception
Failed to initialize VR runtime Installation path could not be located (110)

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Callstack:

  payday2_win32_release_vr  (???)     ???                                                 
  payday2_win32_release_vr  (???)     ???                                                 
  payday2_win32_release_vr  (???)     ???                                                 
  payday2_win32_release_vr  (???)     ???                                                 
  payday2_win32_release_vr  (???)     ???                                                 
  payday2_win32_release_vr  (???)     ???                                                 
                  KERNEL32  (???)     BaseThreadInitThunk                                 
                     ntdll  (???)     RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath                   
                     ntdll  (???)     RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath                   

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Current thread: Main

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System information:
Application version : 0.0.2.0
CPU : AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core Processor (6 cores); SSE; SSE2; SSE3; SSSE3; SSE4.1
Language : english
OS : 6.2.9200 () 0x300-0x1 (64 bits)
Physics : threaded
Renderer : threaded

[scenic marsh]

Are you trying to start up payday 2 vr?

[willow ruin]

I wanted to see if it would make any difference but still same thing happened with VR

[scenic marsh]

VR is crashing for an entirely different reason

What's current crash log on main game?

[willow ruin]

only ones ive got is the original i posted on this thread and the 1 i just posted, doesnt seem to give me a crash log whenever i try now

[scenic marsh]

I would start by deleting renderer_settings.xml and see if the game makes a new one

[willow ruin]

i dont even have that file apparently, tried verifying game files and still not here

[scenic marsh]

Renderer_settings.xml is created when the game opens if not there, it does not get recreated when you verify game files

Try deleting context.xml in the game directory, which steam should reverify and try launching again

[willow ruin]

alright reverified, still no renderer_settings from a search

[scenic marsh]

At this point, uninstall the game, delete the steam directory folder and the payday 2 folder under %localappdata%

Then reinstall, load game, check for crash log

[willow ruin]

alright ill try that

[fathom bolt]

try to check the file integrity

[willow ruin]

already done this about 20 times

[fathom bolt]

i had like 5k missing files

[willow ruin]

welp after more testing im completely out of ideas, I guess im just not meant to play payday 2 again on this pc

[scenic marsh]

Does adding -steamMM and -skipintro to the launch command help?

[willow ruin]

how would i add that?

[scenic marsh]

Launch options for steam

[willow ruin]

only options ive got is normal launch and modern cpu support

should i add that in the modifcations tab below it?