Help, My game won't respond, it's freezing upon lauching, what can I do?
The first thing you can do is wait. If the game loads from a crappy old hdd it might take a while. Otherwise it should fully load within 2 minutes or so from sata ssd or a few seconds from nvme.
If it didn't throw any popup error messages up until that point it might just work.
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if you don't have a cmd console running when you launched the game. If it doesn't throw any red error messages in the console it is usually fine. You just need to follow the general guidelines from
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if you are using the eng version.
A sample of COM3D2x64_Data\output_log.txt is needed for debugging if something is still not working right.
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the game could at least fix the base game files required for the game to boot if a file is corrupted due to a failing storage drive.
Other than that the issue is usually related to insufficient permissions and having the game folder read only.
If you install updates or dlc incorrectly it will also wreck the whole install beyond repair. Never extract updates/dlc packages in the game folder.