Game fails to launch with steam

[SammyBooy]

So , my game wont start , i press play and nothing happens , i have tried several fixes but so far nothing , the only fix that got me somwhere was setting the game to run in 640x480 but all that gave me was a black screen. The game is not being blocked by my antivirus , my drivers are all up to date and so is windows , i've tried installing the game several times but still nothing , there is two things that i find quite odd is that in c:/users/USERNAME/documents/paradox interactive there doesn't seem to be a CK2 folder and in my steam folders for CK2 i have a folder called 00_GET CK EXE . I might add that i bought the game yesterday so i've never had it running on this pc

I have managed to fix it !

 

[Zhon Daeli]

Glad you got it fixed, but please share how you fixed it so if others ever come across the same issue, they might be able to fix it too.

 

[Hundlaser]

Yes, please do share, having the same issue...

Edit: Got it to work following these instructions from AndrewT:

Use Notepad to make a new text file called userdir.txt in the Steam CK2 folder where ck2game.exe is. In that file place a single dot, save and exit. This tells the game to write the user files right there instead of under Documents. If that works and the game now runs, you can replace that dot with any file path you like.

 

[AndrewT]

That almost certainly means your AV app is getting in the way of writing files to the Documents folder.