Spaceengineers.cfg makes the game crash

Hello Engineer,

thank you for reaching our forum with this problem. We are sorry that it is happening to you.

The game is not crashing on my side, when changing the game settings. Can you please provide me more information?

If I understand it correctly, when you are in game (in the Main menu or in the world) and try to change any settings in Options (all the categories (Game, Display, Graphics... ), click "OK" and the game crashes for you?

Or are you also trying to change anything in the config file itself by hand?

What happens next after the first crash happens, please? Are you able to start the game? Load into world? Are the settings actually applied, or reverted back how it used to be before the crash?

You might want to try our general workarounds first, as these help to most of the players solve most of the problems. 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

If nothing from the list above would help you and you still be experiencing this problem, please reply to the questions above. Can you please also show me whole process on the video?

Also please share me a log from any of the affected game sessions, where you experience this problem.

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.

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