unable to launch game

[KsenoByte]

Error aproaches when i`m trying to start game

Vulkan crashed.
All logs, DxDiag and MSinfo output files in attachment.


Please help

[KsenoByte]

err msg

[VPaulus]

Do you have MSI Afterburner and Nahimic installed?
There could be some conflict with the game engine.

[KsenoByte]

Am i need do some thing else after deliting MSI Afterburne?
Because i still have same issue

[VPaulus]

Believe a 3rd party program might be interfering with your video card ability to run Vulkan.

Anyway, try download and install the latest Vulkan SDK from here:
https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home#windows

[KsenoByte]

did not helped

vulkan output attached

[VPaulus]

Try to disable all background programs in case these are interfering with the normal running of the game.
You can do this by running msconfig and disabling all non-windows start-up programs and services.
Then once you have disabled all non-Microsoft services, please run the game and see if the issue persists.
If it does not, please then reopen msconfig and reenable those services, one by one, until you find the program causing the problem.

A tutorial on how to do this can be found below:
https://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/23848

[sulfire]

There is something wrong with the gladius build. It is that simple.

It might have something to do with systems that have two GPUs. my installation failed repeatedly until I told windows to only use the gaming GPU for the gladius.exe and added a direct exclusion into the windows virus protection (otherwise 98% cpu on that antimalware process when gladius runs).

I also has issues with the xbox-gamebar ********** thing, and things start a lot quicker now that i've powershell stripped all xbox related appx from my system. (5-10s instead of 60s).

But really, I don't know of any other games that have this issue, therefore Proxy Studios needs to take a good hard look at its init system

[SteamSlither]

There is something wrong with the gladius build. It is that simple.

It might have something to do with systems that have two GPUs. my installation failed repeatedly until I told windows to only use the gaming GPU for the gladius.exe and added a direct exclusion into the windows virus protection (otherwise 98% cpu on that antimalware process when gladius runs).

I also has issues with the xbox-gamebar ********** thing, and things start a lot quicker now that i've powershell stripped all xbox related appx from my system. (5-10s instead of 60s).

But really, I don't know of any other games that have this issue, therefore Proxy Studios needs to take a good hard look at its init system

See if Gladius legacy 1.2.6 works, i'm curious about the antivirus thing, do you have McAfee, I have McAfee and it seems to go off with a lot of false positives especially for mod applets and other fixit.exes/dlls. I didn't really have that problem with Avast

[sulfire]

gladius 1.2.6 (non-vulkan) was fine.

No AV, just built in windows version

[SteamSlither]

gladius 1.2.6 (non-vulkan) was fine.

No AV, just built in windows version

Windows only AV OK thanks.

if 1.2.6 works but no subsequent version, even doing all those gyrations and it still fails, 1.2.6 must be the answer, probably a good idea to save blood pressure for something else .

Anyway I looked over No Man Sky and it is as well Vulkan with similar problems on certain cards that by specs should support it. For Nvidia, these tend to be older cards in th,e 900 range and under though 1000 range video cards seem to have some problems as well ). For now I am avoiding Vulkan games which are extremely very few, like rattlesnakes and earthquakes, until sometime in the future when I eventually get a new system. In the meantime Gladius 126 is very much a lot of fun !

[sulfire]

In the meantime Gladius 126 is very much a lot of fun !

If only I'd stuck with it. Got the latest greatest dlc working with vulcan, and the AI / balancing is a gigantic bag of poo.

I'd like to have options to turn off the dumb resource placement (i know, to be fair for multiplayer, but takes away half the fun for solo play), and switch to 1.2.6 AI, which was at least a challenge. The AI is so stupid they can't beat me any more

[SteamSlither]

In the meantime Gladius 126 is very much a lot of fun !

If only I'd stuck with it. Got the latest greatest dlc working with vulcan, and the AI / balancing is a gigantic bag of poo.

I'd like to have options to turn off the dumb resource placement (i know, to be fair for multiplayer, but takes away half the fun for solo play), and switch to 1.2.6 AI, which was at least a challenge. The AI is so stupid they can't beat me any more

if you have enough room on your computer, you can have two installations, one the latest for multi, then 1.2.6 for singleplayer. No sure how that would work with Steam as you would probably have to move an install folder elsewhere to run from the EXE. Easier if you bought from Slitherine since two installs can work side by side.

[eddieballgame]

This game was a 'goto' for my group before 'vulkan'.
We stopped supporting it after that.