after purchase off the dlc the game refuses to boot I've tried verifying the files, Uninstalling and reinstalling, and running the game as admin nothing has worked so far. if anyone knows how to fix this I'd be grateful for any help
#Icarus not booting after purchase of Great Hunts
cloud ledge
obtuse talon
What does it do when you try starting the game?
cloud ledge
It crashes almost a minute after hitting the start for the game no window
obtuse talon
So you hit play. Steam shows it's running for a min then says it's not. Nothing pops up?
cloud ledge
yes
obtuse talon
@royal cobalt
cloud ledge
Vid of what's happening
obtuse talon
It's a specific issue that for some reason my brain won't ever remember. I tagged twist because he knows it.
cloud ledge
ok thanks!
royal cobalt
Koala may have more faith in me than I deserve. Something is terminating the process. Make sure that both the base exe and the second exe in the binaries folder are permitted for Defender, anti-virus, windows execution protection, etc. That's the most likely source of the issue. Running as admin doesn't bypass any of that, and you do NOT want to run Icarus as admin anyway.
cloud ledge
i disabled Icarus From running as admin is this what you mean by both .exe's. i have both the boot .exe and Icarus's file on defenders exclusion
royal cobalt
i disabled Icarus From running as admin is this what you mean by both .exe's. i ...
if you click on the second one (in binaries\Win64), do you get any kind of error? does it start up?
cloud ledge
no error and no screen. it dose the same as i tried booting from steam
royal cobalt
So either it's crashing with no report or something's killing it.
what GPU do you have?
cloud ledge
evga gtx 1070. i do get a crash report in the appdata file
royal cobalt
can you post it?
DM it if you're worried about any content, though I think it's largely clean of personal info. I promise to be discreet.
cloud ledge
sorry it's taking me a minute to find the screenshot. ill just send the file
royal cobalt
it's okay, I'm working on a paper as well in a different window.
royal cobalt
that's not a crash report; that's just configuration of the crash report client itself.
basically, that's what the UE4 crash report client uses to know where to send data when it does crash (there's a local copy too, but when you get a UE4 crash, there's a "send data" button that uses that URL).
cloud ledge
ok. that file is all i see that is new, i have no idea what can be blocking it from booting. defender is the only thing but i have it exempting icarus.
royal cobalt
You don't have any antivirus? Can you right-click on both of the executables and make sure that "execution protection" isn't listed at the bottom of the Properties screen (it's usually with Read Only and such).
royal cobalt
Last thing to check would be looking in the Windows System and Application logs to see if there's any error around the time you are launching. probably not, but it's the last "error log" I can think of to check.
cloud ledge
how do i do that?, thanks for the helping with this
sleek lintel
Would that App Control with Win 11 be doing this? Never remember the name of that, disabled completely on my PC.
Dalton be patient with Twist he knows his stuff. Just threw that idea out as he can not think of everything.
obtuse talon
Would that App Control with Win 11 be doing this? Never remember the name of tha...
That should be throwing a windows error message if it was
cloud ledge
its cool. I'm in no rush. i'm just glad to have any help. i pulled up the event log
sleek lintel
That should be throwing a windows error message if it was
Ah okay, well I will try to remember that one then.
obtuse talon
its cool. I'm in no rush. i'm just glad to have any help. i pulled up the event ...
Are you using game ready or studio drivers?
cloud ledge
game ready - drivers are up to date
obtuse talon
game ready - drivers are up to date
Swap to studio and see if it works
cloud ledge
i swaped and it booted
obtuse talon
So the latest update borked older gpus on gameready....
cloud ledge
thanks for all the help! i just checked. everything is run good. I'm slightly down on frames but at lest its working now.
i guess your probably right. with my luck now all my other games won't work on studio. just another reason to build a new PC.
obtuse talon
thanks for all the help! i just checked. everything is run good. I'm slightly do...
They should work fine with studio. Nvidia wants to shove crap into game ready that it doesn't need so it breaks.
royal cobalt
Yeah, that was going to be the next step. if there's no log, I was going to recommend changing the drivers. Something happened lately with the game-ready drivers that are causing problems for a lot of people.
(sorry, still writing this paper, so I'm inconsistently here)
anyway, glad it's working.
cloud ledge
thanks for the hellp twist!
sleek lintel
<:thumbs_up:900875486132052008> thanks for the hellp twist!
So you know I have played about 6+ other games on Studio and not a single one had issues. Even older games like Sniper Elite 4 long enough to beat it on hard.
Ark Ascended actually seemed to run better but no telling if that was the driver or WC work.
Also if you invest in a new PC make sure you get at least 32GB RAM more if you can. Games are getting RAM hungry, with many of them needing 16GB.
sleek kayak
Just as an aside As of driver version 591.44 ALL 900 & 1000 series GPUs were no longer supported with Game Ready Drivers from Nvidia, they were put onto security only updates. The LAST version to fully support them was driver version 581.80 from 4th November 2025