Cannot Start game or Stop game

Hello Cj,

thank you for reaching our forum with this problem.

Can you please specify what exactly is happening on your side?

Are you not able to start/load the game at all from Steam? It won't start to load, there is no splash screen for you, intro... you are not able to launch the game to main menu altogether? So it is not crashing, exactly, right?

Please try our general workarounds. 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
• Make sure your operating system is fully updated

Please let me know if something from this list helped you.

If not, please try to specify exactly what is happening (it might be good to show it on the video), and if possible (if any is created), please share me also the full log from the game.

You can access your log files by typing %appdata% into your Windows search bar and you will be redirected to the hidden Roaming folder. After that just follow: \Roaming\SpaceEngineers.

If there is no log from the game created, can you please try to check (and provide me) the log from the Windows Event Viewer? You can find full "how to" here:

https://www.spaceengineersgame.com/troubleshooting/game-will-not-start-issues/

just look for part: "When the game does not start and does not produce any log file."

Thank you in advance.

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