Game crashes before startup

Hello!

Thank you for contacting us. Since this is a bug report, I'm moving your ticket to our support page, where our QA team will take care of you.

Kind Regards,

Keen Software House

Hello, engineer!

Thank you for writing to us.

We kindly suggest trying the following steps, which may help resolve the issue ;

Verify your game files on Steam

• Right-click on Space Engineers in Steam Library → Properties → Local Files → Verify Integrity of Game Files

Delete SpaceEngineers.cfg file

• It means your game configuration will be deleted
• You can access your SpaceEngineers.cfg by typing %appdata% into your Windows search bar and you will be redirected to the hidden Roaming folder. After that just follow: \Roaming\SpaceEngineers.

Delete ShaderCache folder

• Same access as SpaceEngineers.cfg

• Back up your whole Space Engineers Roaming folder and delete it
• Restart Steam
• Reinstall VC Redist 2017
• Update graphic drivers
• Reinstall the game
• Make sure your operating system is fully updated

If none of these steps resolve the issue, you can try a workaround that has helped another user with a similar issue ;

https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/pc/topic/26943-exception-occurred-system-dllnotfoundexception-unable-to-load-dll-anselsdk64#comment-69400

Kind Regards,

Keen Software House: QA Department

Hello Engineer,

as there has been no reply to this thread in some time, we will close it. If you're experiencing this issue, please create a new thread.

Kind regards,

Keen Software House: QA Department