Please forgive the bad post formatting, I’ve never had to resort to posting on a forum for help before.
This post is April 2024, for almost two weeks I have not been able to play the game because when I launch it, it can’t even reach the opening cinematic before it goes into a fatal error crash and stops working. This is after the latest chapter 4 Age of War update was released, after the Sacred Hunt event ended.
Yes, I have verified files several times, it did not help. Yes, I have removed ALL mods one at a time and tested each startup after removing each one, it did not help. Yes, I have tested launching the game with NO mods at all, it did not help. Yes, I have uninstalled and reinstalled the game more than once, it did not help. Yes, my drivers and software are up to date, and absolutely no other changes outside of Funcom’s own updates have occurred on my computer between the last time the game functioned normally and when it started to crash every single time.
I’m trying VERY hard not to go on a tirade about how insanely unprofessionally outrageous it is for such a game to have seemingly random and incomprehensibly unexplainable issues like this, and even worse that there are no viable resolutions that ever come from any official source that should, by all rights, have been able to figure out how to resolve this issue that has apparently plagued the game for years now.
If anyone has any viable solutions, or things that I have not tried yet, I would be grateful for any help. This game is expensive, and I would still like to play it, so I would like to find a resolution instead of hearing people say, “oh, it just happens, you’ll just be screwed over until the game (or devs) decide you can randomly start playing it again.” Which seems to be the most common answer there is to the issue at hand.
Apologies for the bad formatting, and the frustrated tone, and thank you to anyone who can lend any kind of help or advice or solutions.
UPDATE: Thanks to a kind pointer and another day of digging, I found this thread - Please Help! UE4 Sandbox, fatal error at start-up - #17 by darthphysicist
A member named Xevyr told that person who had a near-similar issue to delete their logs folder (found from ConanSandbox\Saved\Logs) and it might help some people resovle the issue. It did help, now my game has stopped crashing. No idea how people come up with these obscure resolutions but THANK YOU for posting and sharing them, and for being brilliant enough to figure them out, since Funcom doesn’t take the time to.
Hopefully this will help other people who’re having this problem, I hope its as simple of a fix.
As an aside, if anyone knows why the construction hammer delete (right-click) function will randomly stop working all together, I’d appreciate an obscure fix for that too.