Crash on Startup

[AppleFromHell]

So I bought Crusader Kings II a while back and played it a lot then without any problems.

Today I wanted to play CKII again, but it kept crashing on me. There is no error log because the game doesn't even really launch. I get the little startup screen where you can choose your DLC and mods and stuff like that but when I click "lauch", my screen turns black, and all I get is a windows popup saying: "CK2 is not responding". Same story for EU IV.

I saw on the Steam forums that other people have this as well, so I hope you a fix for this.

For EU IV I have tried going into the settings.txt and editing the Refresh rate of my monitor to what my monitors refresh rate is, but that didn't work.

 

[AndrewT]

It's not clear to me in the game has ever worked on this machine before, or not.

IF NEVER:
Please go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\crusader kings ii\DX\ and run dxsetup.exe

Please go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\crusader kings ii\ and run vcredist.exe

If that doesn't help, please try installing ALL of these Microsoft modules:

First: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8328

Then: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

(If that doesn't do anything then http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109 )

Then: visit the Windows Update site and allow it to apply all .NET updates/patches it wants to, for all .NET versions.


IF IT USED TO WORK:
Please try a full clean re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "delete local content" in Steam-CK2
- manually delete all files and folders left under Steam/CK2 AND Documents/Paradox/CK2
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.

IF NEITHER OF THE ABOVE HELP:
Please post a dxdiag.txt (you can delete everything after the end of the "Sound devices" section for brevity) and your Documents/CK2/settings.txt. From your Documents/Paradox/CK2/logs/ directory, post system.log . Open setup.log in notepad and search for 'checksum', post that line only here too please.