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Crash on start up/Stuck on black screen

silky_soft
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Only since the last patch have I had this. At the same time I downloaded the 1.6gb patch I also got the new nvidia drivers. I thought these drivers were the cause, so I promptly rolled back. Restarted, then it was fine.

The next day it happened again. This time after I was stuck in a load screen in Cyrodiil, which isn't uncommon. I just alt F4 like normal and go to start the client straight from the exe as I have done since 1.6. Again I was hit by this same loop crash/black screen bug. I then proceeded to do the following.
- Did a repair
- Removed videos
- Removed host files
- Removed all my addons and saved variables

Finally I renamed my /eso/live folder in Documents. Went to launch again and bam it work. Had to go through all the T&C jazz again. Had to remake all video settings. Copied back my addons.

The next day, today it happened again. So I looked further into this. I deleted the live folder then with a fresh version I replaced single files 1 by one on various restarts of the client to find the crash. I couldn't actually find what was making it happen. I can see hidden file and system files. I'm really not sure what goes on. The only fix is to removed the whole folder.

TLDR;
Rename your documents/eso/live folder each time you launch the game. Replace your addons, their variables and UserSettings.txt file.
This recent update has made me sad. Sad for the game. Sad for the community. Sad to pay whatever it is now. I want the previous eso back.
  • silky_soft
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    After a few days of BSOD. This came up. It is the following line in documents/eso/live/UserSettings.txt
    SET FULLSCREEN_v5 "2"
    Change the value to
    SET FULLSCREEN_v5 "1"
    Edited by silky_soft on June 8, 2015 8:19AM
    This recent update has made me sad. Sad for the game. Sad for the community. Sad to pay whatever it is now. I want the previous eso back.
  • Robbmrp
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    When I was having all kinds of issues with the launcher/patcher I uninstalled and reinstalled the game. It took a while but it seemed to resolve some of the issues I have had. I still have an occasional crash, bug, and of coarse there will ALWAYS be lag, but the launcher errors I was getting are no more. If you haven't uninstalled/reinstalled in a long time, give that a try.
    NA Server - Kildair
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