Game just won't launch!!!

[subzero1970]

Ok, so i bought this for my pc so i could get all the awesome mods, and ummm well, the game just won't load!!! if i go into my task manager it just sits in the background processes!!! My pc has the specs to run it, so why wont it run??? 

[Sup3rC10ud]

What exactly are your specs? Also, you didn't install any mods yet right? 

[subzero1970]

no mods installed, pc specs are 

intel i5-4460 3.2ghz

16gb hyperX ddr3

nvidia 1050ti 4gb

winduhz 8.1

 

[Sup3rC10ud]

Found this on the Steam forums, you can try using this solution:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/664430/discussions/0/1480982338947412953/

[subzero1970]

yeh saw that, tried that, didnt work

 

[subzero1970]

uninstalled, reinstalled, did the c++ thing..still nothing

[D-Driller]

Have you tried turning off and on again?

[subzero1970]

On 01/03/2018 at 12:10 AM, D-Driller said:

Have you tried turning off and on again?

yeh, coz im in the mood for stupid jokes

[D-Driller]

1 minute ago, subzero1970 said:

yeh, coz im in the mood for stupid jokes

Actually, in most troubleshooting its the first step, to do a power cycle.. 

we are done here, im in no mood for stupid jokes 🤗

[Sup3rC10ud]

I've read somewhere that maybe it could be the game trying to launch in settings that your PC can't handle. You could try and manually change the configurations settings yourself.

If you go to your documents folder, you should find your WWE2K18 folder. Inside, you should see config.ini. Make a backup of that file (just in case it doesn't do anything) and open that up with notepad and edit it to the following:

[advanced]
FXAA = on
MSAA = off
vsync = on

[quality]
audience_density = 100
audience_tessellation = on
depth_of_field = off
motion_blur = off
shadows = on
simple_lighting = off
texture_quality = 0

[rate]
denominator = 1000
numerator = 60000

[resolution]
height = 900
width = 1600
window_height = 720
window_width = 1280

[window]
windowed = yes

These are the settings I have currently for my game. Hopefully this works.

[subzero1970]

Thanks i'll give that a try

[subzero1970]

No config.ini file anywhere

[Cave Waverider]

First, are your drivers up to date, especially the video drivers? Download them from the manufacturers website, don't use the ones from Windows Update, since they often aren't fully featured or not really meant for your hardware and can cause compatibility issues. For example, for your Nvidia video card you'll want to download and install the latest drivers from nvidia.com. I would also suggest to run Display Driver Uninstaller in Safe mode before installing the new video card drivers to get rid of any junk/remains from older drivers.

Second, it might be an incompatibility with some other program and your system. Do you have any programs installed that hook into Direct3D? Those can be screenshot programs, programs that produce an overlay (for example monitoring programs like MSI Afterburner), etc.. Try disabling all startup programs and see if that helps, and if it does, re-enabling them one-by-one to see which one causes the problem. Then check if there are any updates available for the program and install them to see if it's better.

[subzero1970]

my gfx drivers are as up to date as of today, im not sure what you mean about programs that produce an overlay, and im not 100% sure how to disable startup programs, i'll try the display driver uninstaller, and as recent as yesterday i rolled back to windows 7 hoping it was a compatibility issue with that OS but sadly not

[Cave Waverider]

There are many programs that produce overlays or hook into Direct3D. Things like Overwolf, MSI Afterburner, EVGA Precision, Riva Tuner Statistics server, FRAPS, GeForce Experience, ReShade, are a few examples.

Also, are you sure you have a 64 bit operating system installed? Press Win+Pause and it should say either 32 bit or 64 bit there. If it's 32 bit, the game won't run, you will have to install a 64 bit operating system.

Also, be sure that the SDD/HDD your Temp folder is on has plenty of free space, otherwise the game might not be able to put it's temporary files there.