Game Does not even start on Steam

[Simmie]

No matter what I try the game doesn't even give me the barest hint that it starts. I've tried everything from making sure my drivers are fully updated, resetting my pc, uninstalling and reinstalling the game, reinstalling steam, resetting my windows, deleting specific files, verifying the integrity of the games files, running the game as administrator, and even running it through the 32.bat and the 64.bat files. I dont understand the issue, but everytime I press 'Play' it runs for a couple seconds(without any pop up or indication that the game is going to start) and then it stops running.

 

This is the batch of error codes I get when running it through the Alternate Launch Option:

 

 

 

Please help me out if you can

[Simmie]

I have moved it to the C drive before and nothing changed. I've attached the new error logs from running that file. It is frustrating, but thank you for all of your help!

PZ errors 918.txt

[Beard]

Thanks, could you try going to the ProjectZomboid folder again and delete the win64 and win32 folders? After that, verify your game files through Steam and have it redownload them.

[Simmie]

That did not work.

[Beard]

There might be some sort of issue in your Windows installation preventing the files from being loaded properly. Could you try running the "sfc /scannow" command in your windows powershell to check for any errors?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/topic/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system-files-79aa86cb-ca52-166a-92a3-966e85d4094e

[Simmie]

This might sound stupid, but its telling me I must be an administrator running a console session in order to use that. 

[Beard]

You might need to run the console as an administrator in that case, do you have administrative privilege on your current account?

Here is a simple guide on how to start the console as admin, you would just need to right click it and select Run As Administrator:
https://www.educative.io/answers/how-to-run-cmd-as-an-administrator

[Simmie]

Okay so I ran the scan and it found nothing wrong.

[Beard]

You could try to check if it is an username error as mentioned before by creating a new username and then installing / running the game on that username.
The error that you get basically just means that the game fails to load the necessary files / libraries from the "win" folders. File reading errors can be caused by many things, though they would usually be related to some strong Windows security settings preventing the application using the files, or other problems like having special characters in the username or in the application install path, which would prevent the application from loading the files as well.

[Simmie]

Sorry for the long wait, I'll be trying that now.

[Simmie]

That worked, I was able to actually play the game.