Game keeps freezing on start-up PC

[boreal valley]

Yesterday I closed the game ( i just beat a bossfight on nerud, the big cosmic power thingy) and had other stuff to do so i quit out the game through the menu and went on with my day.

When later that night i wanted to boot up the game to continue playing the game froze on the starting up screen. and even when trying to forcefully close the game through steam or task manager steam keeps saying that the game is still running. i sometimes even get as far as the logo or the character screen but that happens only once every so often. i also sometimes get the music of the game but no images.

I have went and tried i think everything i can do.

Checked for file integrity, added a backup save instead of a normal save. i removed a lot of files (which i found through reddit posts and the like) but nothing works. I just want to play my game man. is there anyone who knows how i might fix this random issue?

this thing also keeps running in the background according to my task manager and i cant forcefully end this task either.

[sleek glen]

Make sure your .sav is backed up, and/or make a cloud backup, then uninstall the game, restart your pc to clear temporaries, and reinstall it.

Sounds like some kind of corruption. Is this the only game where this happens?

Make sure all your drivers are up to date as well.

This might be a game file thing, but ngl this sounds like system failure to me

Even if the reinstall fixes the problem on the surface, I'd still do some health checkups on my machine

[boreal valley]

Well this is the only game it does it with. And my pc isn't more than 3 months old out of the box so I surely hope it's not the system.

Will try to do the reinstall I have done the whole backing up save file thing already but will get back to you afterwards.

[sleek glen]

Task manager being unable to terminate a task is not normal

That's not something a game glitch can just randomly cause without other things going wrong.

Driver failure or corruption can cause something like that, as drivers run on higher permission than the task manager, for example

But Remnant 2 doesn't innately run at higher permission than the task manager, so it should always be able to terminate it unless it is somehow spaghettified with something system critical

Press Windows + R, type in eventvwr.msc and see if this issue threw up any flags

Yeah anything else even remotely resembling this issue i could find could at least get into the main menu to mess around with graphics settings (there used to be a rare graphics problem 2y back where you had to turn on detailed geometry otherwise the engine would crash on some systems, though that was supposedly fixed)

But none where the game sometimes gets into menu, sometimes doesn't, and sometimes doesn't even launch

This leads me to believe that it's not (or not only) a game related problem.

Feel free to @ me when you did more troubleshooting, I'll check back as soon as I can.

[boreal valley]

@sleek glen im not too tech savvy, what am i looking for when opening event viewer?

[boreal valley]

@sleek glen we have found the problem. We did some cable management and plugged the screens back into the motherboard instead of the dedicated GPU therefore it was trying to run remnant 2 over the integrated GPU and i dont think it can handle that hahaha.

[sleek glen]

Oh yeah lmao that's not gonna work

Not sure this would have even shown up in the event viewer actually

Please leave the thread up tho so i can reference it in the future in case this ever comes up again