Constant Crashing After Launcher, Used to Work

I’ve queried this with our Engine Developers for their assistance. I’ll keep you posted!

Unfortunately it’s not clear what could be causing this, it’s suspected this is a driver or Windows kernel issue. Have you ever had any trouble with your Windows installation?

ive been working on improving the deadlock reporting when it happens early.

My suspicion is that it’s an issue with game overlay in steam. Try disable it from steam menu and see if that helps. If this is an issue, this is nothing we can fix since it’s on valve.

FYI in your case the game is stuck in ntmarta.dll never seen that one before.

edit: after further inspection it looks like its’ stuck in a sl dll. I will send this to Nvidia and ask if they can see anything

Nvidia couldn’t see any reason why it get stuck either. You could see if removing the check makes the game continue instead of crashing. In this case you timeout due to the engine being stuck here for 2 min.

in game files, lookup this file win32_settings.ini and change value of deadlock_detector_enabled to false

I was able to launch the game somewhat consistently by reinstalling my graphics drivers (Nvidia) before launching the game, after which the game would run almost perfectly. However, I would need to repeat this every time I launched the game

This also doesn’t sound great. Are you playing other games and in this case perhaps games using DLSS? Feels like this can potentially be an issue with your windows installation or something that makes the drivers not working as they should. Not sure if windows have a repair mode, but might be worth testing that.

I will consider increasing the time out. Or look into if we can see if we do a “update” to tell the game that we have not deadlocked yet.