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Game refuses to launch on Steam after working perfectly

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:24 am
by refinedBrute
So I got LoG yesterday, bought it on Steam and played it for a couple of hours, quit, then came back and played for a bit more.
Had a lot of fun, everything was fine and dandy. Last night I figured I'd give it another go just before going to bed, so I start up Steam and launch the game. After "Preparing to launch.." I get an error message saying that grimrock.exe has stopped working.

Since I hadn't removed or installed any new software, the comp wasn't overheating and everything else but the game works completely fine, I'm curious as to why this happens. I'm completely clueless, and I've already taken steps to reassure that I have the latest drivers, etc.
Restarted Steam as well as my computer to no avail.
Any help whatsoever would be greatly appreciated, since I find this game very entertaining and I'd like to keep playing it. :(
I'll copypaste the logs below.
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WER8A07.tmp.version
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Windows NT Version 6.0 Build: 6002 Service Pack 2
Product (0x3): Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium
Edition: HomePremium
BuildString: 6002.18595.x86fre.vistasp2_gdr.120305-0430
Flavor: Multiprocessor Free
Architecture: X86
LCID: 1053

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WERA4B9.tmp.appcompat
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Re: Game refuses to launch on Steam after working perfectly

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:57 am
by Oconnel
I woke up today with similar problem. After launching LoG just hungs up. Just the black screen, sometimes I could see a loading splash screen and that's all. Process grimrock.exe is eating my memory up - so far is 200MB of RAM and it's going up by 40KB per second (steam pre-order version).