Can't start or load into a game after update

Game starts fine. I can create or use a current character, but the moment I want to load into a game, crash.
Start a new game, crash
New character even, crash

I've tried windowed mode. Turning down settings. Changed to high performance in nvidia control panel.

Nothing works.

Game worked fine before Hearth and Home update so after months of waiting they basically broke the game.

This is a fresh install.
5:13 pm, September 25, 2021
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BGratz replied to Can't start or load into a game after update September 25, 2021 @ 10:47:49 am PDT

Sorry that should have fixed the issue if you did it in this order.
Only thing left i can imagine would be a GPU driver update, but that would not be game related.
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SONG BIRD! replied to Can't start or load into a game after update September 25, 2021 @ 10:57:55 am PDT

the game that is all but fun when the world is no good and you have to start all over from new this is called reinstall and wipe old saves to be on the save side and ask a friend to come and gear you up or try cheats to give you some progress back this is all i can think of 4 you hope you can fix your game bro
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Beyond.Celsus replied to Can't start or load into a game after update September 25, 2021 @ 1:17:31 pm PDT

Originally posted by SONG BIRD!:
the game that is all but fun when the world is no good and you have to start all over from new this is called reinstall and wipe old saves to be on the save side and ask a friend to come and gear you up or try cheats to give you some progress back this is all i can think of 4 you hope you can fix your game bro

Already on a clean install
Dunno. Just going to wait for a new update
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Sunny replied to Can't start or load into a game after update September 25, 2021 @ 3:27:55 pm PDT

Hmm. I'd try doing another install, going through the directions BGratz gave you in the order they gave them to you. Something was weird the first time you did it, because if it was a fully fresh install, it wouldn't have had a "current character" for you to try logging into. Something saved, got redownloaded, or simply didn't get deleted in the first place.

So if it was there, then you didn't delete everything out of the folder. If you had mods, they are also probably still there, and that's VERY LIKELY to be the problem.

Once you've got it all uninstalled and before you've gone through adding any of it back, make sure you go into the folder and manually delete any traces of the game. This step (or just renaming this folder) is REALLY important.

Turn off steam cloud if you haven't, yet.

If none of the above assists, do what you can to troubleshoot your hardware to make sure something isn't on its way out. There's any number of things that could be acting up and causing the described symptoms. Yes, a hardware failure can indeed manifest in only one game (particularly near the start of the problem), because different programs use different parts of the computer in different ways.
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Beyond.Celsus replied to Can't start or load into a game after update September 25, 2021 @ 4:11:45 pm PDT

Originally posted by Sunny:
/snip

Never had mods.
Complete clean install.
All previous folders deleted.

I did solve the problem however.

Weirdly, running the game in Windows 7 compatibility mode fixed it.
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BGratz replied to Can't start or load into a game after update September 25, 2021 @ 10:05:42 am PDT

Check game files with steam
Try again

If it does still not work
If you had mods
Delete whole game folder
Install again
Try again

If it does still not work
C:\Users\YourWindowsID\AppData\LocalLow\IronGate
Rename the whole folder
Try again

If it does still not work
Disable all programms that run in the background
Try again
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