fix So about that crash to desktop...

[Doezer]

Hey,

Like a lot of people I've had a crash to desktop just as soon as I launch the game. It starts, goes black screen and closes just after it.

I had this log coming out:

 

Fatal error!

 

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000008

 

0x00007ff7c30baf29 IndianaEpicGameStore-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []

0x00007ff7c30b4945 IndianaEpicGameStore-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []

0x00007ff7c4499f30 IndianaEpicGameStore-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []

0x00007ff7c2f544d9 IndianaEpicGameStore-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []

0x00007ff7c2f4f463 IndianaEpicGameStore-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []

0x00007ff7c2f4f68a IndianaEpicGameStore-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []

0x00007ff7c2f5802f IndianaEpicGameStore-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []

0x00007ff7c52faed6 IndianaEpicGameStore-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []

0x00007ffab1317034 KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction []

0x00007ffab309d241 ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction []

As you can imagine, not really useful. I got into a lot of topics/threads listing all kinds of generic solves which obviously didn't work.

I got to this page : pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Outer_Worlds

The part saying how to remove the start up videos was enough for the game to finally start. So while it will not solve all crashes, this might help someone. And if not, just follow the rest of the page.

My understanding is that I miss some codec that would be part of the Windows Media Pack (I have a Pro "N" version of windows 10 or something, which comes without it). But modyifing the config file at least got the game to start. Still I'm expecting I might have more crashes later.

Edited February 7, 2021 by Doezer