This game refuses to launch

[SirPanic12]

Hi all,

I can open EUIV, HOI4, and CKII just fine, but Imperator Rome always crashes right after pressing play in the launcher. Any help? And no, the shadowmap fix does not work for me. I am also playing on Steam.

Thanks in advance.

 

[AndrewT]

How far does it get exactly? Do you see the game launcher, the loading screens, the main game menu?

Has the game ever worked on this machine? Or never yet?

 

[Tudno]

Hi, just want to say I'm experiencing the exact same issues. I've done clean re-installs along with the "shadowmap fix" and the problem persists. The game works fine when I revert back to 1.2. I've attached my dxdiag and some files from the documents folder if they are required along with a screenshot of where it freezes after clicking play on the launcher which inlcudes task manager showing it's very high CPU usage when it's not responding. (I had left if alone for 10 minutes and it still hadn't responded).

 

[AndrewT]

Hi, just want to say I'm experiencing the exact same issues. I've done clean re-installs along with the "shadowmap fix" and the problem persists. The game works fine when I revert back to 1.2. I've attached my dxdiag and some files from the documents folder if they are required along with a screenshot of where it freezes after clicking play on the launcher which inlcudes task manager showing it's very high CPU usage when it's not responding. (I had left if alone for 10 minutes and it still hadn't responded).

If you move all saved games out of Documents/paradox/imperator/ then delete that whole folder, is it any different?

 

[Tudno]

If you move all saved games out of Documents/paradox/imperator/ then delete that whole folder, is it any different?

I've tried that and it was still the same. I noticed that update 1.3.2 is in the beta branch, so I went to try it out and it doesn't seem to work either. First time I launched with the 1.3.2 beta I left it running while I went to check on the dogs and I came back 5 minutes later and it had loaded to the menu. I then restarted my PC and tried launching again with the 1.3.2 beta update and it was behaving like 1.3 where 10 minutes passed and it had still not responded.

The only way I have been able to get the game to run on 1.3 was to revert back to 1.2, run the game and it will load fine to the main menu. Then close the game and go back to 1.3, run the game and it will then load fine to the menu. Does the game cache itself when it loads for the first time or something?

 

[AndrewT]

Well, it certainly writes a cache, but we'd know if that was corrupted under 1.3 on everyone's machine ... weird stuff!

 

[SirPanic12]

How far does it get exactly? Do you see the game launcher, the loading screens, the main game menu?

Has the game ever worked on this machine? Or never yet?

I managed to fix it. Pretty much all I did was delete the I:R folder in documents/Paradox Interactive. After that it began to run.