Errors and Crashes on Launch

[schlitty]

Picked up rFactor 2 right before the Winter Sale ended... Won't run.

Launches, auto subscribes to the workshop items, downloads and syncs those. Then when I click "singleplayer" I get an error dialog window with "Error creating default shader". And after clicking okay on that I get "Error setting video mode". And finally after clicking okay on that, the program stops responding.

I tried to do some searching about the web but there's never a concrete solution I could find or threads with no followups or people that it just magically fixed. I've tried all the various suggestions I could find though.

Verified cache integrity on Steam.
Deleted and redownloaded/installed.
Deleted user config, player, and shader files.
Tried various AA, sync, windowed/borderless/fullscreen, settings.
Tried 32bit.
Running the exe as administrator in Windows.

None worked.

Any help would be appreciated.Thanks.

 

[schlitty]

For what its worth my problem seems to have been with some permission setting along the way AND my install directory. I have my Steam games installed on a secondary HDD. And for whatever reason rFactor 2 did not like the naming of the directory. I contacted rF2 support directly and that was the last idea to try. I made a second Steam directory just named "test" on my secondary HDD and the game ran fine there. Then I tried in on my primary again (had tried that earlier before fiddling with permissions and stuff) and it now worked on C:\ as well. But still wouldn't fire up in that original directory where my other games are on my secondary. So I dunno. Game works now though! I hope nobody else runs into the same problem but consider changing your directory if you do.

According to support; "Error creating default shader" is caused by limited space (HD, page file, memory) or permissions or path being too long.

 

[Gijs van Elderen]

rFactor 2 did not like the naming of the directory.

rF2 doesn't like some caracters in file names, folder names, usernames etc...
Charcters like: æ å à œvø ä ę ã õ ō.
In some countries these characters are used in names.

It might not the cause of your problem. But worth to check.

 

[schlitty]

Definitely worth mentioning for anybody else that finds this when searching. Don't quite know why it didn't like mine. Mine was just D:\Installed Games\Steam\*regular Steam folder structure*

But I'm crashing cars now, so problem solved!