I cannot start the game

Hello, ridge,

thank you for reaching our forum with the problem that you are experiencing.

Can you please provide me more information?

What exactly is happening on your side? The game is not starting at all (no change on the Steam "Play" button)? Or it initiates to start and then it crash/won't start?

Please try our general workarounds that helps most of the people to solve most of the problems with the game. These are:

• Verify your game files in Steam – right-click on Space Engineers in Steam Library → Properties → Installed 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 above
• Back up your whole Space Engineers Roaming folder and delete it
• Restart Steam
• Reinstall VC Redist 2017
• Update graphic drivers
• Reinstall the game – please make sure it is completely new installation. Not only uninstall the game through Steam, but also delete all possible leftover files in the appdata SE folder as well as in the Steam/steamapps/common/SE.
• Make sure your operating system is fully updated

Please let me know after you perform these steps, if anything gets better on your side – partially or completely.

In your log you provided, I can see that you are using Windows 11 version. Did you maybe switch just recently? Or your very able to play the game on Win 11 as well?

Can you maybe also share more information on "it was working fine before" altogether, please? When exactly was that; how long ago? What game version? Was is through same Steam account? On the very same machine and same Windows user? Please try to share all possible changes that happened from last time it was working for you regarding your PC – both HW and SW.

You might also want to try and delete the "skipintro" command that you are using in the launch option of the game, just to see if the game won't start when completely installed anew without any changes to the files/content.

And last but not least, I have searched for same/similar errors in the logs from the past and actually found this thread:

https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/pc/topic/41677-major-update-1-203-505-game-wont-launch-exception-occurred-system-typeinitializationexception

This player seems to suffer with the same problem as you are describing. If nothing from the general workarounds won't help you, you might also want to try the approach the player had and described there. It eventually fixed the problem with his system, not with the game itself.

Kind Regards

Keen Software House: QA Department

Thank you i was having the exact same issue

Hello, ridge,

thank you for your reply.

Happy to know that you are no longer experiencing this problem.

Since the game is now working for you, and there is nothing more we can help you with in this regard, I will close this thread now.

Please, do not hesitate to contact us again, should you observe/experience any other problem with the game.

Happy Engineering!

Kind Regards

Keen Software House: QA Department