game crashing after 5 seconds of black screen

BackgroundDust

installed new update today. hit 'Launch game' -> anti-cheat screen -> black screen ... 5 seconds -> game crashed, back to home screen.
was able to play every weekend before that.

nanfoodle

Same here on my wife's client. I tried reinstalling the Nvidia drivers. Repair and reinstall options. Rebooted her PC as well. Also did a clean install on the drivers. She has a 3060 or 3070.

nanfoodle

Wife's CPU maxes out before the crash

nanfoodle

There's something wrong with the easy anti cheat software. With your common problems website I tried clicking the install.bat. that didn't help. So I tried using the anti cheat setup to remove anti cheat and reinstall it. But it doesn't launch anything so I can't remove it. We're stuck at this point and we can't play

nanfoodle

I tried uninstalling the game. And reinstall right from the launcher on so that it would give a fresh install for the anti cheat software. The anti cheat software folder went away everything was uninstalled. I did a fresh install for everything and it still will not launch past the aunti cheat software. Black screen game crash

nanfoodle

Did full scan and MS malware removal tool. Nada. Still can launch the game

nanfoodle

The steps below fixed this for me

1.Go to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170

2. Download latest C++ Redistributable Version

3. Repair and restart pc.

4. Done

Vaknar

Please also verify that your system meets ALL required minimum specs: https://support.ashesofcreation.com/hc/en-us/articles/26658550834835-What-are-the-minimum-and-recommended-computer-specifications-for-Alpha-Two

As @nanfoodle suggested, there may be a fix with the Windows redistributable You can learn more about that here: https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/61592/alpha-two-known-issues-list-read-me-first#latest