After 2 months game suddenly won't launch

[Dago Red]

The problem started after I went online with steam tonight (I only do this manually on occasion) to see which mods would update. Note I was not opted into patch 7 beta.

Several mods updated, including noifs better horses textures -- which hung and would not complete its sync. I waited over an hour and restarted steam, had to do this a couple times and it finally showed it updated. Game failed to launch. So I unchecked that mod and tried, still no luck. Then I unchecked all mods -- straight vanilla -- and it still failed!

So then I opted into patch 7 beta, figuring that maybe an update and steam restart would solve it. Still nothing...

Total War: Rome II has stopped working.
etc

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: rome2.exe
Application Version: 1.7.0.0
Application Timestamp: 52840f41
Fault Module Name: Rome2.dll
Fault Module Version: 1.7.0.0

I went to the official forums and tried their fixes -- deleting preferences.script and fx cache in the hidden appdata directory. Nothing.

Any ideas?

[craziii]

disable all mods and try again. this will tell you if it is a mod or the beta.

[Dago Red]

That's the first thing I did. Now I'm manually removing the pack files but I doubt that will do anything.

I have already done all the steam recommendations -- flushing config, removing preferences, deleting appcache and verifying game files (all came up 100%). So many people have this same crash on launch issue, but the common solution was people who installed on D drive, reinstalling on their C drive, which I never did in the first place.

Anyone see solutions to this failed to launch / crash on launch issue?

[dvk901]

I had added Radious Mod to my Rome2, and it CTD'd immediately without ever getting to the menu. I went in and deleted the Httpcache and then unchecked the Radious Mod and it worked again. So I guess it was the mod that did it.

[Dago Red]

I'm working again too. I did every cache clearing and preference script deleting type thing that steam and ca recommends, then, moved all my mods physically out of the folder just to make sure they weren't still somehow conflicting. As soon as I did all that, when I logged back in to steam it suddenly had significant download to go through for Rome II -- so I think the last update didn't actually finish somehow.

Anyway, after that finished (it took 15+ minutes) I launched vanilla just fine. Then immediately loaded all my mods back* in and voila.

Hope this doesn't happen again, because I really don't know what finally made it synch up right.


*Lines of battle, Magnar, and Toons All in One -- never all 3 major mods at same time, only 1 of those depending on mood/faction I intend to play. Then ancient colors, bullgods unit cards, 2TPY w correct buildings, Alexander's better buildings mod, and the TTT traits mod, plus GEM and mech donald's FX, assuming none of those are included in the major mod.