Game launch issue Windows 10 laptop

[Marzion]

I just purchased EU4 & Art of War DLC. When I launch the game I hear the score playing, and eventually (usually after 30 seconds) my mouse turns to a finger, I see the game icon on my taskbar icon beside my steam icon but when I click on it game nothing happens. I am running Windows 10 64. on an MSI Titan laptop, NVidia 1070 with 16GB of RAM. Intel i7 seventh gen

I have gone to the eu4.exe and made sure I am running as admin I have turned all antivirus and firewalls off, I went to the NVIDIA control panel and set everything to high performance as suggested in numerous articles. I also did a file check in steam that came back fine. Sometimes if I hold ALT+TAB I can get to the opening screen sometimes and I hear the click sound if I click on something but the graphics are not updating, however, if I repeat the alt+Tab I can then see the result of my click...the graphic updates. Many times, however, I cannot even get this far. I never have trouble with games on this laptop, so this is very frustrating.

-Marz

 

[grotaclas]

Try to change the display mode to borderless fullscreen in the launcher like in the following screenshot:

Steam Community :: :: Borderless fullscreen in the launcher

Steam Community: Europa Universalis IV.

steamcommunity.com

This usually helps

Disclaimer: I'm not working for Paradox. I'm just trying to help people.

 

[Marzion]

Now it says "Launching the game failed" I even reinstalled the game. It doesn't make any sense, it was somewhat launching yesterday.

 

[AndrewT]

I have gone to the eu4.exe and made sure I am running as admin

Please undo that, it causes problems all by itself.

Then does it run, either from Steam or directly?

 

[Marzion]

I finally solved the problem by deleting all past Paradox games and moving this game from my D drive to my C drive. I have all of my other games (50+) are on my D drive and work perfectly. This game for some reason will only run off my C drive. Anyhow, it seems to be working now. The plethora of issues people are having with this game should be fixed. Moreover, I wrote support 4 days ago regarding my problem and still have not heard back. That's completely unacceptable and a first in my experience.

 

[AndrewT]

FYI the game works perfectly fine on D: normally, that's how I have it in fact.

We have not received a support ticket from the email associated with this forum account since June last year, when I replied to you within 24 hours. Is that where you tried to report your problem, or elsewhere?