I noticed a few people experiencing unity crash errors on startup on Last Epoch. I also had these issues, but thought they weren’t related to the game. I ended up diving into the issue and finding a workaround/fix that has helped myself and one other. We both had AMD GPUs and the ati64dxx.dll was the faulting module. I’ll share my Discord chat log with the person having this issue and also a concise list of the steps taken.
Quick Steps:
Last Epoch on steam right-click → Manage → browse local files
Delete LastEpoch.exe and imgui.ini
Verify integrity of files for Last Epoch on Steam
Launch game and hopefully it works! If not look at long steps
Long Steps:
Check Event Viewer → Windows Logs → Application for LastEpoch.exe errors (search using windows)
If you have ati64dxx.dll as the faulting module, then our issue was similar, if not I’m not sure but you can try the same steps
Get the module path and open it in file explorer
Go to Last Epoch on steam right-click → Manage → browse local files
Find the .dll that’s faulting and copy it to LE game folder with the executable in it.
Do the quick steps!
You do have to repeat the quick steps if game crashes on startup after launching successfully once, in my experience.
Neither helped for me. My issue is because of the nvwgf2umx.dll which is supposed to be related to NVIDIA drivers. Did also clean install of the drivers, clean install with everything closed, copying the the dll file into game folder or downloading new one into the folder.
Fortunately the game randomly starts after few attempts and waiting some time.
Another suggestion is doing the quick fix I posted and also trying different launch configs for the window size of the application.
Right-click LE in Steam Library → Properties → General → In Launch Options try “-window-mode exclusive” or other launch options (google to find the various ones)
I have the exact same issue as you with the exact same dll faulting and I have tried the quick steps and long steps, even tried steam launch options and nothing
this is incredibly frustrating and I hope the devs fix it soon.
UPDATE: after posting this I decided to update my graphics drivers (as I think I was running quite a few versions behind, I mean Baldurs gate 3 complained everytime I opened it about it(but still ran lol)…) and the game immediately launched. yay
Same issue here. I have sent a report to the devs twice from different emails (even though I sent multiple follow-ups to the devs from the first email, I got an auto-response from them saying they hadn’t heard back from me).
I have tried fresh installs, updating drivers, multiple workarounds, nothing works. It will randomly launch here and there, but it’s like a 5% chance. I never had issues like this before the update, so it’s a spaghetti situation.
Another potential workaround is to try and launch the game from the EXE. I.e. launch Steam, but then instead of pressing PLAY in steam, find the exe in the install folder and run it from there.
This has worked for me on nvidia with the nvwgf2umx.dll error.
I recall that this was a problem many versions ago too and launching from outside of steam was a solution, so I am wondering if an old bug has wormed its way into the game again.
Something you said above about it seemingly being random got me thinking.
It is a long shot but you can try verifying if ASLR is enabled and (if so) disabling it. ASLR randomises memory layout of your application for security reasons. Last Epoch uses il2cpp and it’s possible there is a bug which causes compatibility issues with ASLR in some circumstances. Normally, i wouldn’t recommend disable features which protect you from malicious software, but it is worth checking, even if only to feed that info back to EHG.
If you have tried all the troubleshooting steps above and none kf them worked, you can try reaching out to the EHG support team at https://support.lastepoch.com/hc/en-us
Please be advised they will ask you to do similar things as above (uninstall, verify game files, etc)
Always willing to test out a “left field” idea to get things working but unfortunately this on does nothing for me being able to launch from within Steam.
Even after 0.92b, I am still unable to launch from Steam - no problem launching directly from the EXE. Have additionally tried reinstalling Steam etc but nothing seems to be making any difference.
