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Astrosloth 12 Apr, 2020 @ 11:16am
Can't Open Torchlight 2
Hi, I've looked through multiple different discussions about similar issues and can't find a fix anywhere. To make matters worse, there's no longer a company to contact about the issue.

The issue is, my Torchlight 2 will not open whatsoever. I click on play in steam, it loads shows the loading circle, then nothing. If I open it directly from the .exe or in administrator mode, then I get a Fatal Interaction Error pop up, but still no game or launcher.

The weird thing is, yesterday it was working just fine. I got through three or four hours of playing a new character, closed it for the night, shut my computer down and now it won't run at all.

Things I've tried as suggested by others:

Reinstalling the game - I completely gutted the game from my computer. Deleted all saves, all mods, and tried a fresh reinstall without any mods.

Switching to Offline mode and running it

Running it in Windows 8 Compatibility mode

Reinstalling Visual C++

Running it through Geforce Experience, through the .exe file, and through Steam

All of these things yielded absolutely no results, and it's quite frustrating because I had a really fun character being built and now I don't even know if I can still play the game. I was hoping maybe somebody could suggest something I haven't thought of yet?

In case someone is thinking it could be an issue with my GPU drivers or compatibility, I'll list my GPU as well:

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 OC 6G Graphics Card, 2X Windforce Fans, 6GB 192-bit GDDR5, Gv-N1660OC-6GD Video Card
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Originally posted by sekai:
Okay. So I haven't played the game for a while (by that I mean like a month or 2 at most), and I just ran the game to see if I have the same issues myself. And yes indeed, the game launch now goes into an error.

So it's definitely not just you.

I can guess a couple things. The biggest suspect is probably either Valve or Microsoft (assuming you're using Windows) messed up during the updating somewhere.

There's at least this thread to read tho, maybe there's something that works in there
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/200710/discussions/0/152391285458065925/

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EDIT: Upon further investigation, I am not sure if my error is the same as yours, but mine is an error called "SteamAPI_init() failed" (I read it as on the bottom tiny text on the launch client window), which if pressed to launch will lead to a fatal error pop-up. I've read it could be fixed by simply ending Steam and then restart it as administrator. I'm going to test this.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/212370/discussions/0/864956554513355026/

EDIT2: I've confirmed that "SteamAPI_init() failed" error can indeed be fixed by running Steam as administrator. My game is running normally now. Probably just a Windows Firewall thing that I need to go back and add exceptions for.

EDIT3: I have also confirmed that once you launch the game while running Steam as administrator the game's resolution setting will go completely off which then you will need to re-customise; and upon re-customising, you close both the game and Steam and relaunching Steam NOT as administrator, the game can be launched without any other problem.
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Aingster1 12 Apr, 2020 @ 11:26am 
Have you tried Win 7 compat? and did you mod the game at all?
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Aingster1 12 Apr, 2020 @ 11:27am 
Also, run windows event viewer to see if when you start the application, if it gives an error to see what's actually happening?
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sekai 12 Apr, 2020 @ 11:32am 
Games Library then > Properties > Local Files > Verify Game Files and let it run. See if it can launch after.

If not: Open Task Manager. Sometimes it's not launching because it's already running in a kind of idk, corrupted session or something. Find out if there is such thing (it will show up on Task Manager as if it's a running program, even if you can't see any running window anyway) and end its operation. Test relaunch.

If not: Try simply shutting down Steam and relaunch/re-log on it. It's possible it's Steam update time for you, which is reported to have possibility to interfere with game launching until you finish it.

If not: Do you use mods? Disable all of your mods and test run it. If it's indeed the mods, you can use process of elimination to try and figure out which one broke the game.

If not: Delete all mods if you have any, you have to make sure you wiped off all leftover mod files. Test run it.

If not: Uninstall and reinstall the game; and before you reinstall, do a cache cleaning with programs like CCleaner. And make sure you also reinstall Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 and MS Visual C++ 2010.

If not: Restart PC. Sometimes it does fix things.
Last edited by sekai; 12 Apr, 2020 @ 11:46am
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sekai 12 Apr, 2020 @ 11:55am 
Okay. So I haven't played the game for a while (by that I mean like a month or 2 at most), and I just ran the game to see if I have the same issues myself. And yes indeed, the game launch now goes into an error.

So it's definitely not just you.

I can guess a couple things. The biggest suspect is probably either Valve or Microsoft (assuming you're using Windows) messed up during the updating somewhere.

There's at least this thread to read tho, maybe there's something that works in there
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/200710/discussions/0/152391285458065925/

........

EDIT: Upon further investigation, I am not sure if my error is the same as yours, but mine is an error called "SteamAPI_init() failed" (I read it as on the bottom tiny text on the launch client window), which if pressed to launch will lead to a fatal error pop-up. I've read it could be fixed by simply ending Steam and then restart it as administrator. I'm going to test this.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/212370/discussions/0/864956554513355026/

EDIT2: I've confirmed that "SteamAPI_init() failed" error can indeed be fixed by running Steam as administrator. My game is running normally now. Probably just a Windows Firewall thing that I need to go back and add exceptions for.

EDIT3: I have also confirmed that once you launch the game while running Steam as administrator the game's resolution setting will go completely off which then you will need to re-customise; and upon re-customising, you close both the game and Steam and relaunching Steam NOT as administrator, the game can be launched without any other problem.
Last edited by sekai; 12 Apr, 2020 @ 12:20pm
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Astrosloth 12 Apr, 2020 @ 2:19pm 
Originally posted by SEKAI (世界):
EDIT: Upon further investigation, I am not sure if my error is the same as yours, but mine is an error called "SteamAPI_init() failed" (I read it as on the bottom tiny text on the launch client window), which if pressed to launch will lead to a fatal error pop-up. I've read it could be fixed by simply ending Steam and then restart it as administrator. I'm going to test this.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/212370/discussions/0/864956554513355026/

EDIT2: I've confirmed that "SteamAPI_init() failed" error can indeed be fixed by running Steam as administrator. My game is running normally now. Probably just a Windows Firewall thing that I need to go back and add exceptions for.

EDIT3: I have also confirmed that once you launch the game while running Steam as administrator the game's resolution setting will go completely off which then you will need to re-customise; and upon re-customising, you close both the game and Steam and relaunching Steam NOT as administrator, the game can be launched without any other problem.

Thanks so much man! That solved my issue and the game started up. Funny to think that after trying all those different things, the solution was fairly simple lol. But yeah, it worked, so thank you!
Last edited by Astrosloth; 12 Apr, 2020 @ 2:20pm
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sekai 12 Apr, 2020 @ 11:51pm 
Originally posted by Astrosloth:
Thanks so much man! That solved my issue and the game started up. Funny to think that after trying all those different things, the solution was fairly simple lol. But yeah, it worked, so thank you!
No problems.
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