What OS do you use, what did you already try and what are your exact symptoms and error messages?
Over on reddit, I made a post with a list of things that you can do to get the game running. Maybe there is something there that helps you.
Launching the new launcher! (Coming with 1.29 Manchu)
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Over on reddit, I made a post with a list of things that you can do to get the game running. Maybe there is something there that helps you.
So, currently, the only issue I have with my launcher is that pressing play doesn't start the game. It just closes the launcher and nothing happens. Strangely enough, I can enable mods in the launcher and then use the .exe to launch the game and the game will launch fine with the mods enabled. This launcher problem happens even though I've done verifying caches and fresh installs so the only thing I could guess is that my launcher isn't properly connected to my .exe.
This is just an inconvenience for now, but it's still an annoyance and not WAD.
This is just an inconvenience for now, but it's still an annoyance and not WAD.
Is your eu4.exe maybe configured to always run as administrator while your launcher isn't?
Ah, so my computer didn't know what to do with the new launcher. Thanks lol.
I have the same problem where the launcher says a couple of DLCs have corrupted files. Re-installing after deleting all the contents of that folder unfortunately doesn't fix this.
I have Win7 64 bit, the things I've tried:
. verify integrity of files using the Steam software
. Un- and reinstalled game
. Un-check all DLC in Steam, deleting files within mydocuments folder, check all the dlc again to install them
. This one above, but added un- and re-installing the game
I have unsubscribed from all mods just to be sure that wasn't influencing it in any way. However the exact same dlcs throughout all the steps taken show the warning message icon "the files for this dlc appear corrupted", the dlcs in question are:
- Horsemen of the Crescent unit pack
- Conquest of Paradise
- Songs of Yuletude
- Wealth of Nations
- Res Publica
- Republican Music
- Art of War
I can start a game, but I am unable to do things like: sell ships, ask for war reparations, go to war using my vassals claims. Which I am assuming are part of the dlc that are affected.
Hello, can you try to delete the "dlc_signature" file in \Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis IV? When starting the launcher the next time it should be remade.
I have deleted that file just now, starting Stean and the game again afterwards still gives the corrupted warning signs with the above dlc.
i have a problem when i try to play, when i click in play the menu stay 5 seconds and close the menu and i can not play
Was the dlc_signature file created again and does it have letters and numbers in it? Don't write what is in it, I just need to know that it was created and has information in it.
With the release of the Manchu update, I have never been able to launch the game. Numerous reinstallations, reboots, unsubscribing from mods, deleting a folder in My Documents did not lead to anything. The game at the time of loading, or at the moment of pressing any button on the start screen, simply crashes to the desktop, with a window for sending a bug report.
It was created again. Opening the file with notepad shows it has 1 line of letters and numbers. About 30 characters or so in total.
I haven't been able to get either the patch or the launcher to work at this point.
Never had this kind of trouble running EU4 since release.
Rolled back to 1.28.3.
Never had this kind of trouble running EU4 since release.
Rolled back to 1.28.3.
Can we please just have the old launcher back? This new launcher took like 25 minutes to install when the old EUIV launcher worked just fine.
The new launcher has broken everything. I can't roll back versions to play old mods because the launcher has messed with everything so bad it won't even run mods even when they're in the mods folder and of the correct version I rolled back to. I can't even play the current version with mods because half of them don't work and I have no idea why only some of them fail. Please, I beg you, just stop with this. Bring back the old launcher, at least that one worked.
If you want help with that please post in detail in Tech Support, thanks.
Almost all current games are moving to the launcher so I rather doubt it will be undone, I'm afraid. If you have any problem with it now please post in Tech Support.
I don't understand how the new launcher has anything to do with you reverting to an older game version, it is simply not involved.
Of course mods that have not been updated for 1.29 will not work with it, that happens with every major patch and has nothing to do with the launcher.
If you need more detailed help please post in the Tech Support forum.
Rolling back is still half broken. I tried rolling but couldn't start the game due to dowser.exe.
Also, unless one made copies of their 1.28 mods, now that half of them are updated (looking at you, map graphics mods, with massive internal changes), you can't use 1.29 mods with rolled back games. And you can't find 1.28 compatibles anymore because noone warned us to make a copy ahead of time.
You can ask the mod authors for old versions. I have seen several mods already which tell you in their descriptions how to get old versions.
What kind of warning would you expect? Isn't the information that a new version is coming warning enough?
Usually no. I still run 1.17 mods without a hitch as they change nothing that's been altered since. However 1.29 had - out of the blue - massive changes to how the map was handled and as result graphical mods went dead, then in addition it had (now hopefully fixed for good) the replace_path issues breaking conversions, and finally a lot of the mods had to do revamps in order to go compatible - mods which were unaltered for years.
Don't like it? Roll back! Can't roll back because the rolled back version doesn't even start? Oh, contact support, I'm sure they'll be helpful to you and thousands of others.
In any case, nothing here is catastrophic (aside for the usability of the new launcher), but the willful ignorance of the damage caused in the latest DD is simply infuriating. When you are shaking up the field in such a massive way without fair warning, it's common courtesy to test stuff doesn't break and provide instructions to common users ahead of time what to do when it happens. I've been following this fiasco from day one, devs were completely unaware of what would happen or pretend to be. Bah.