Problem with launching the game on Steam.

> When trying to start up, everything looks as if the game is about to start, but suddenly stops

Can you be more granular on what this looks like?  Are you getting a dialog?  Does the game just close?

I have the same issue.

To be more specific about what happen, if i launch the game in Steam, it seems to launch ("launching" aside with the game's name in the list of games on the left in Steam). Then it quickly change to "Launched" and half a second to "100%", then everything disappear and it come back like nothing happen.

If i try to launch with the desktop icon, it opens shortly a little Steam window (which could allow me to open Steam if I want), it says that the game is launching, then it closes after 2 second and that's it.

 

Very annoying.

On 1/19/2024 at 8:55 PM, hasues said:

> When trying to start up, everything looks as if the game is about to start, but suddenly stops

Can you be more granular on what this looks like?  Are you getting a dialog?  Does the game just close?

I use the Steam platform, after pressing the "Play" button, the game starts for 1-2 seconds (the game process is created in the background, it is visible in the windows task manager). However, after the time expires, the game shuts down abruptly. I recently investigated the game's error logs more deeply and got to the log:
 

P1: dontstarve_steam_x64.exe

P2: 0.0.0.0

P3: 65a07fec

P4: MSVCR90.dll

P5: 9.0.30729.9625

P6: 5db2744b

P7: 40000015

P8: 0000000000042686

P9:

P10:

MSVCR90.dll path:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_dontstarve_steam_ed147af4445a573cdc3c2d35f741268108397_ba30956f_ef2dcb8c-dd1a-4b77-b414-65ee1ff62e99

The problem is 99% caused by the MSVCR90.dll file. I have uninstalled many times the Visual C++ Redistributable extensions in windows, however this did not help. This file is backlogged on my PC and is still impossible to remove from disk. I would have to directly tamper with the system which, it seems to me, is dangerous. 

I am posting the log from eventvwr.msc that occurs when I try to start the game:

(Since the original log was written in Polish, I translated it into English).

Name of the application causing the error: dontstarve_steam_x64.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time signature: 0x65ab1b00
Name of the module causing the error: MSVCR90.dll, version: 9.0.30729.9625, time signature: 0x5db2744b
Exception code: 0x40000015
Error offset: 0x0000000000042686
ID of the process causing the error: 0x20b0
Start time of the application causing the error: 0x01da5445707b39df
Path of the application causing the error: C:³³³³ Program Files (x86)³³³³Steamsteamapps³³³Don't Starve Together³³³64dontstarve_steam_x64.exe.
Path of the module causing the error: C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.9625_none_08e1c10da83fbc83\MSVCR90.dll
Report ID: 8b8c0823-7647-4e2f-8810-0573cc75f141
Full name of the package causing the error: 
Application ID relative to the package causing the error: