Any chance your anti-virus updated on your machine, and decided that the game's .exe was suddenly suspicious and quarantined it?

The game launches fine for me, been grinding away at the last 2 achievements for several days now.(I am not running any mods or using any external scripts like macros for my mouse). I am running Windows 10 (fully updated), and I am on an older NVIDIA driver (560.7). But I have had issues with older games not launching in the past when my AV did an automatic update and I had to restore the games' .exe files from virus quarantine and add the games to the AV's exceptions list.

I have the same problem. :-(
What operating system are you using?

Also try to verify files by right-clicking the game name on steam > Properties > Installed Files > Verify Files.

Separately - try deleting the settings.txt file inside Documents > My Games > Runic Games > Torchlight II > Save folder.

Also consider these steps for other potential fixes:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/TLM2H/discussions/0/3050610473995004183/

Same problem. I'm running it on Linux and it was working before Linux runtime 2.0 (Wednesday). I've tried deleting settings.txt but it didn't work

Running it on Proton 9.0 worked. It's bad that native isn't working though.

Originally posted by adegron:

Same problem. I'm running it on Linux and it was working before Linux runtime 2.0 (Wednesday). I've tried deleting settings.txt but it didn't work

Running it on Proton 9.0 worked. It's bad that native isn't working though.

Linux may require one of these for the pre-launch settings within Steam:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/200710/discussions/0/1694917906654719532/
Like this one possibly:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreetype.so %command%

Originally posted by steffire3:

Linux may require one of these for the pre-launch settings within Steam:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/200710/discussions/0/1694917906654719532/
Like this one possibly:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreetype.so %command%

EDIT: I checked the Arch Linux wiki you linked in that topic, and it gave a working solution on my end. Quote from the wiki:

Alternately, re-naming or deleting these 2 files will force it to use your system's libraries:

Torchlight 2/game/lib/libfreetype.so.6
Torchlight 2/game/lib64/libfreetype.so.6

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Note that depending on your installation, there may be no "game" folder. This is the case in for me in Mint at least, so it might appear as "Torchlight 2/lib/libfreetype.so.6") instead.

Thankfully it's not like Oneshot where I had to delete 30+ library files. I also needed this to run the game, since Proton runs this game really poorly on my system (after a while it just stutters like mad).

On a strange side note, this is the only game that broke when Valve recently forced native Linux titles to use the Steam Linux Runtimes (mainly the Scout version, but Steam installed Soldier as well). Either way, this could be a solution for others as well if the other solutions don't work on your end (they did not for me sadly).

I'm on Fedora and it did the whole "try to start but died silently" thing, and after verifying files and trying the prefix fix didn't help, then deleting the libfreetype files in the game folders made it work. (I may go put them back and just rename them)

Game doesn't launch anymore c'mon man!
Was about to play, 2MB or so update, then game tell me to ♥♥♥♥ off D:<
It worked well for years and suddenly not anymore ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

What was this update about anyways?

Kubuntu 22.04

-- EDIT --

This solution worked right away :

Originally posted by Neon Triangle:

Alternately, re-naming or deleting these 2 files will force it to use your system's libraries:

Torchlight 2/game/lib/libfreetype.so.6
Torchlight 2/game/lib64/libfreetype.so.6

Thanks