#Vanilla celeste isn't booting up

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analog finch
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very recently when trying to boot into vanilla specifically, doing it from inside of celeste by holding right on the title screen doesn't work (as well as doing it from Olympus)

I've tried the method of deleting the orig files, verifying the integrity of the game files, then reinstalling everest, but doesn't work.

not sure what else to try 😭

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oh forgot to mention, I'm on windows

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please ping me when responding

analog finch
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what is something I could provide to figure this out?

analog finch
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switching to opengl seemed to fix it but reinstalling everest breaks it so :p

analog finch
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I am not

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I am on windows 11

cyan ibex
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open up eventvwr.msc (windows+r and type that in, then press enter)

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then go to windows logs, application, and search for errors around the time celeste started up

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there should be something from .NET Runtime or Application Error

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is there a

Application: Celeste.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: exception code e0434352, exception address 00007FF9899C7F7A
Stack:
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deleting the orig files
nevermind, i literally just read this and forgot

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in any case, please check the event viewer

analog finch
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is this what I'm looking for?

cyan ibex
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that wasnt what i expected but yes

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what the hell

analog finch
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oh dear

cyan ibex
analog finch
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I don't see any

cyan ibex
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this doesn't make sense

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i've never seen this before

analog finch
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oh no

cyan ibex
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what are your pc specs just to be sure

analog finch
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cpu: amd ryzen 5 7600x
gpu: amd radeon rx 6800 xt
32 gb of ram

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uhhh I think I missed a few things

cyan ibex
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this is good enough ig

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im not sure why that'd happen and it's too late for me to look into it deeper

analog finch
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rip

analog finch
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I wonder who else can help

indigo cape
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I am also having the same issue but I'm on mac...

analog finch
indigo cape
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i've just been verifying and reinstalling stuff

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nothing rlly seems to work

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Is there anything I could provide that would help locate the issue

analog finch
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you should probably create your own post if anything

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more likely to get a response

indigo cape
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the same issue was posted 6 days ago

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It's also on a mac, so idk if it rlly helps with you on windows

analog finch
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probably not the same issue

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but I don't know lmao

indigo cape
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can you play the game thru everest?

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bc i can play it thru everest

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it's just base game

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what sucks is that there's no pop up or anything to indicate why it's crashing on startup

analog finch
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the moment I go to boot vanilla is just doesn't work

indigo cape
indigo cape
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I should mention that olympus is in applications

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so no, i'm not making the mistake of keeping it in downloads

analog finch
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brother 😭

indigo cape
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🤷‍♂️

indigo cape
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cuz after the research i did

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...the issue is definitely nontrivial...

analog finch
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Well darn I suppose

analog finch
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I wonder if there's anyone else who can help

indigo cape
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I can still play using only everest but maybe if I keep updating things, it'll eventually get better

analog finch
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I updated everest the day an update came out

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still doesn't work

cyan ibex
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everest is not the issue

analog finch
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ye I know

cyan ibex
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check for software updates and try to update if possible

analog finch
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there are 2 optional updates

cyan ibex
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try them, idk

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we genuinely are clueless because 1. we cannot reproduce this ourselves and 2. nobody who has the tools or knowledge to look at this more thoroughly has a mac

analog finch
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mac?

cyan ibex
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oh right. you don't have a mac

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but most people who encounter this do

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most that we've seen at least

analog finch
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ye that's fair

analog finch
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didn't work

analog finch
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wait nvm

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faulting module name changed back?

cyan ibex
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it's still some weird stack overflow

analog finch
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darn

cyan ibex
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worse yet obviously none of us can reproduce this, cus if we could then we'd look into this more

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the only thing i could possibly suggest is to

sfc /scannow

in an administrator command prompt and pray as hard as you fucking can that this does Anything

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99% of the time it does absolutely nothing

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and the other 1% magically fixes everything

analog finch
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I'll try this

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didn't do anything 😔

cyan ibex
analog finch
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yes

cyan ibex
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did you restart just in case

analog finch
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oh I didn't restart after the scan

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still nothing 😔

cyan ibex
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i kinda expected that but it was worth a try

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surely it isn't another obscure fuckup from microsoft

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surely...

analog finch
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surely not

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WAIT

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WHAT THE FDUCK

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IT'S WORKING

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oh nvm

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I got lucky

cyan ibex
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...is this a microsoft moment

analog finch
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wait

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huh

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hjold up

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launching it from the files works?

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but not via steam

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yeah what the heck

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it works when launching it from the files

cyan ibex
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..?

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is this a steam bug

analog finch
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I honestly can't say

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probably tho

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given that it doesn't launch from steam

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but does from within the game files

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ignore the bg noise lol

analog finch
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oh something worth noting is that I put a "steam_appid.txt" file into my celeste folder

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which was what made it launch

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I wonder why adding said txt file lets the game launch

analog finch
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okay so

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running the game as an administrator seems to have fixed the problem

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vanilla boots up

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and installed everest

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then booting into vanilla via holding right on the title screen

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and it worked!

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restarted my computer and the error popped back up?

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okay seems like I'm running back into the same issue of it refusing to run vanilla

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hm

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uninstalled everest and vanilla boots up again

analog finch
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I wonder why this happened to the file

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I didn't change it to this

analog finch
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I put this steam_appid text file into the orig files, then launched into vanilla from olympus and that seems to work

analog finch
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seems like switching to opengl works

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even tho it wasn't working like this last time

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okay so

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I decided to remove the steam path, and let it do it's thing to find the path

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and now it works?

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and I'm talking on the default public version

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not opengl

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I don't get how it's working

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seems to be working now

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ig I can note that I tried use the .net framework repair tool but to no avail from what I saw

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though I could be wrong

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also worth noting that this happened but I didn't see olympus crash so

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I also did a computer restart to make sure it wasn't a one time fluke and keeping opening the game to test and it hasn't broken

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I did get rid of celeste running as admin just in case as well

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at some point during this process

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and also got rid of the steam_appid.txt file

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not sure how removing the installation path in Olympus and readding it made everything work again

analog finch
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oh yeah I also uninstalled steam at some point

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and reinstalled steam

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also seems like olympus has this when I close it?

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oh seems like it's when I open it

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but it still opens though?

cyan ibex
chilly marlin
analog finch
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and yeah I agree it probably was a steam bug

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celeste only had this issue

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2 other games I reinstalled worked just fine

indigo cape
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i can imagine steam on mac not being super optimal

indigo cape
analog finch
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wait why are you here again

indigo cape
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the base game of celeste still doesn't open

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or run

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i kinda gave up for a bit and only played on everest

analog finch
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I uninstalled steam but idk if that'll help you

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and reinstall it ofc

indigo cape
indigo cape
analog finch
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oh yeah probably

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would be best to stop using this tho since my issue is resolved 😭

small dome
analog finch
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iirc I downgraded everest and for some reason it started working, but a large part of solving it was just gambling until it worked again, so I can't say if it'll work in your case