Originally posted by 쮜:

Hello~
When running after installing the game.
The phrase "fatal initialization failure" pops up and doesn't work
Why is that?

Try this:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/200710/discussions/0/2264689848047446198/
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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.

And possibly this one:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/200710/discussions/0/3022387599804143647/
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Originally posted by pedgo:

I have this problem and notice in launcher was message about failed steam API so i try go into steam offline mod and start the game - it works :D then just switch into steam online mod and start game again and game work without any problem :) Sorry for english :D

I found this in my files for this topic:

TORCHLIGHT 2 - Fatal Initialization Error

Someone posted this thread topic a while back:

Fatal initialization failure - fix
I have this problem and notice in launcher was message about failed steam API so i try go into steam offline mode and start the game - it works :D then just switch into steam online mode and start game again and game work without any problem :) Sorry for english

Steffire's suggestion on one thread:

Try reinstalling Steam-

-otherwise the next step would be to look into manually removing old drivers within the files.

This last advice by Steffire, to reinstall Steam, worked for someone on 7/20/2019.