Game not starting

Hello,

i have trouble with the game since 2025. The game is not starting and freezing on map loading (menu is working) - it stuck on 10% load bar progress.

I have tried many ways to repair but unfortunatelly nothing worked (reinstalling game, deleting saves, removing data from registry).

Here are my PC spec:

AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics 3.20 GHz
16,0 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU (8 GB), AMD Radeon™ Graphics (2 GB)|
64-bit Windows 10

I would be grateful for any help

Since you have two conflicting GPUs in your system, it’s possible that is the issue. I would not be surprised if the integrated card is getting prioritized, so you’ll have to make sure the dedicated one is running instead by forcing it.

Here is a tutorial for that:

Does this issue occur with starting new maps or loading existing saves? Both?

It occur in both ways. I’m wondering which settings do i have to reset to repair the game.

In general im curious what is causing the issue, because i haven’t found similiar problem on the internet - other games works pretty well.

Hi Arvald,

Looking at your specs, you should be able to run FF as long as your discrete (dGPU) is the one being used. I see from your Nvidia settings that you are indicating that FF should use your dGPU.

I’m wondering if it’s still not using your dGPU because the game will definitely start and then fail to load like you describe, we’ve seen that in the past when the iGPU is being used … basically runs out of VRAM.

I know my laptop’s BIOS has a setting that forces the dGPU to always be used in all cases.

If your BIOS has a similar setting, I would try that to ensure you are using the gGPU.

It’s strange that your Nvida control panel is showing the game executable as “farthest frontier.exe” instead of “Farthest Frontier.exe”. We’ve never shipped with the executable with lower case letters. You might want to try uninstalling and re-installing fresh from your Steam client to make sure you have genuine/latest files.

Use the Windows Graphics utility to set the preferred graphics card for the game.
In the Search box type in Windows Graphics and it should appear (System | Display | Graphics).
Click the Add desktop app button and navigate to the game executable.

Here’s an example with Grim Dawn on my system.

I tried to set the game to start with Nvidia GPU by adding manualy “program” in Nvidia control panel. Then game crashed in similar way, but the AMD adrenalin error appeared.

I uninstalled AMD software, restarted PC and the game crashed on 80% load screen (finally some progress :smiling_face_with_tear: )

I though maybe it was a problem with graphics setting so i tried to optimize game using nvidia app and run the game from it (starting game from nvidia app not steam)… game crashed and screen resolution was lowered so i had to restart PC.

The last step i did: reinstalled game and started normally - of course crashed again on 80% load bar, but the “unity crash handler” popped up for a second.

Well, maybe the reinstalling system would help but i don’t want to do this yet - there has to be another, less invasive way

Did you try my suggestion?

I believe you’re using windows 11 - i don’t have similar settings in windows 10

What version of Windows 10 are you running?

Provide a dxdiag report?

and there is a file from “dxdiag”

DxDiag.txt (125.5 KB)

Here’s a video that walks you through the Windows 10 UI to get to the Graphics settings.
I’ve skipped to the part where they start navigating to the Graphics Setting.

If that doesn’t help, I guess you are out of luck. :frowning:

Still doesn’t work - i also tried “repair” option in game directory :frowning: