Hi all,
I have not played EU4 for ~2 years. The game used to be able to run well on this same laptop and windows 8.1
Now I can not start EU4 any more. The problem is this:
When I start the game from Steam, I do not reach the launcher. Although my task manager states that Paradox Launcher is running, there is nothing happening.
Two times a few days ago I succeeded in reaching the launcher. But when I tried to hit play in the launcher, it told me I still could not run. Even though I had no mods enabled. I then deleted every mod not on the latest patch and tried again, I got the same message I could not run the game.
The last days I have not even been able to reach the launcher.
The stickied thread here suggested that when the game has never run the problem could be missing Microsoft modules. I thought this could be the problem since I did a soft reset of my laptop. Since this soft reset the games has never run. The thread listed the following four links:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=8328
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=13523
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52685
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109
(run dxsetup.exe after extracting from this download)
The first two links do not seem to be working links
The third link I did install both the x64 and x86 files, but both did not finish the install. I think because I have already installed both.
I installed the one from the fourth link and did the dxsetup.exe second part of the install.
I still could not reach the launcher after doing this.
I do not know whether the problem is with my laptop, with steam or the game. It might be a laptop/steam problem, because there are more games that have similar problems.
All of the following games I was able to play before I did a soft reset of my laptop. For some games this is over 2 years ago since I last played them.
These games have similar problems to eu4 (not starting properly): cities skylines ; This war of mine ; The political process ; Frostpunk
The following games are working properly like they always have: spelunky ; Papers please ; Undertale ; The messenger
I am sorry this post is so long, I tried giving as much information as possible.
I also listed my DxDiag file. It is in dutch, if this is a problem I can try doing it in English.
I have not played EU4 for ~2 years. The game used to be able to run well on this same laptop and windows 8.1
Now I can not start EU4 any more. The problem is this:
When I start the game from Steam, I do not reach the launcher. Although my task manager states that Paradox Launcher is running, there is nothing happening.
Two times a few days ago I succeeded in reaching the launcher. But when I tried to hit play in the launcher, it told me I still could not run. Even though I had no mods enabled. I then deleted every mod not on the latest patch and tried again, I got the same message I could not run the game.
The last days I have not even been able to reach the launcher.
The stickied thread here suggested that when the game has never run the problem could be missing Microsoft modules. I thought this could be the problem since I did a soft reset of my laptop. Since this soft reset the games has never run. The thread listed the following four links:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=8328
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=13523
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52685
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109
(run dxsetup.exe after extracting from this download)
The first two links do not seem to be working links
The third link I did install both the x64 and x86 files, but both did not finish the install. I think because I have already installed both.
I installed the one from the fourth link and did the dxsetup.exe second part of the install.
I still could not reach the launcher after doing this.
I do not know whether the problem is with my laptop, with steam or the game. It might be a laptop/steam problem, because there are more games that have similar problems.
All of the following games I was able to play before I did a soft reset of my laptop. For some games this is over 2 years ago since I last played them.
These games have similar problems to eu4 (not starting properly): cities skylines ; This war of mine ; The political process ; Frostpunk
The following games are working properly like they always have: spelunky ; Papers please ; Undertale ; The messenger
I am sorry this post is so long, I tried giving as much information as possible.
I also listed my DxDiag file. It is in dutch, if this is a problem I can try doing it in English.
