Space Engineers no longer launches after latest update (process runs, no window appears)

Zbyněk Skácel shared this bug 5 hours ago
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Hello,

I would like to report a launch issue that started immediately after the latest Space Engineers update.


System:

Windows 11 Home, build 26200

Laptop platform with hybrid graphics (AMD iGPU + NVIDIA RTX 4050 dGPU)


Steam version of Space Engineers


Problem Description:

After clicking Play in Steam, Steam changes status to “Running”

SpaceEngineers.exe process appears in Task Manager

No game window opens

No splash screen appears

Process remains running in background

The game was working before the recent update.


Logs / Behavior

Space Engineers log ends shortly after config load, around:

MyConfig.Load() - END


Troubleshooting already attempted

Verify integrity of game files

Full restart of PC

Launch as administrator

Launch directly from Bin64\SpaceEngineers.exe

Delete/reset AppData Space Engineers config folder

Compatibility mode

Safe mode / launch parameters

Disable Steam overlay

Force NVIDIA GPU

Disable integrated GPU test

Reinstall / runtime checks


None of these changed behavior.

Replies (1)

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Hello Zbyněk Skácel,

This issue began with a bad reaction to the Windows .NETFramework update package released on April 14. I reported the same issue several days ago with Steam, Keen, and Microsoft, and am now asking Keen Software House to provide a general progress report to all SE1 players who have complained about the same issue.

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