I recently bought the game and cant play it. After I press Start button game goes to loading screen, square in the bottom right corner loads half the way and than black screen. There is no sound in the game aswell. One time I manged to play the game to like level 10 and then it crashed. Very frustrating.
I play on steam. Tried updating drivers and using repair tool in the folder. One time that I managed to play the game I was using X86 Legacy DX9 Renderer.
Yay, I can help someone for once. Current reviews are full of people I can’t
Anyhow, open up settings.txt which is in here: C:\Users[Your User Name]\Documents\My Games\Grim Dawn\Settings
And add “UPnPEnable = false” to the bottom of the file and save. The game should now start up, in theory.
This happens because Grim Dawn’s netcode only works with routers etc that meet ISO Standards for Universal Plug n Play and unfortunately the crap routers ISP’s hand out and a lot of cheaper ones you can buy do not meet the standard. Usually due to stupid penny pinching.
Anyhow, if this doesn’t work, let me know and I’ll go dig in the google mines and the foggy depths of my memory for some more solutions. Also, this might help:
It didnt help sadly. I think It may be some problem with my external sound device Arturia minifuse 2. Once when I opened crash log there was a lot of red text:
1646: Failed to create HARDWARE sound buffer for external stream, samples=1152, channels=2, frequency=48000, error -2005401500 1646: Failed to create SOFTWARE sound buffer for external stream, samples=1152, channels=2, frequency=48000, error -2005401500
I tried to plug the audio device and then start the game but it didnt work. Im starting to lose hope.
are you on linux?
*asking because i seen a issue where some linux users need to change their rate to 44000 or something
Perhaps even if you aren’t on linux it’s related and your sound settings need to change
alternatively upload your crashdmp for devs to see and maybe they’ll know the conflict you’re having more specifically
Long, long time since I’ve seen this happen though, usually windows UPnP for stuff like audio hardware handles stuff so well it rarely happens. So much so I can’t remember last time I saw audio issues be a thing
