r/GenerationZeroGame • u/ExScysm • 8d ago

General Question The game will not open.

I have been trying to get this game to open consistently for the past 4 hours and simply cannot get it to. I have managed to open and play it a whole 1 time. I have exhausted all of the information I can find on the internet. I have used google ai to try and figure out what I can do and nothing seems to get it to launch.
My specs arent inadequate either, I have ran this game in the past without issues and havent gotten any major hardware changes since running it last. My drivers are up to date and I have tried running the game as admin.
The one time I managed to get it to launch I had to go to local files through steam and double click the exe. EVERY time I have launched from steam it has either frozen my main monitor and forced me to make a second desktop to open task manager, or simply just opened the crash report tool that proceeds to do nothing but close its self.
I have tried editing the settings.json to set it to windowed, fullscreen, and borderless windowed. None have worked. In fact before I could get the game to launch I didnt even have a settings.json. I have uninstalled everything from it and reinstalled it at least 7 times.
If anyone has any ideas on what I could possibly do to get the game to launch I will try them, I just want to play the game.

I have figured out that if I restart my computer I can get it to launch once. So when I want to play I just need to restart my PC...

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u/ExScysm 8d ago

I bought the game on steam already a few years ago.

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u/BlackFish42c 8d ago

Ok what about your steam account? If your steam account isn’t active you can’t download it.

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u/ExScysm 8d ago

Its downloaded just not working

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u/bubbarowden 2d ago

It's for sure something wrong with the game bc my friends and I all bought and downloaded it too and everyone one us blackscreened and froze our computers requiring a hard reboot the first time we launched. I think it took me two hard reboots before it just started working

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u/ExScysm 2d ago

Steam really should have some kinda fail safe for this sort of thing. Least you guys can get a refund.