Game refuses to launch (steam)
Product: Need for Speed: Unbound Platform:PC Summarize your bug Game not launching after update 7.0.1 How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Try...
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I too have this issue.
I've tried clearing caches
Running as admins
SFC/Scannow to fix anything there
Using my phone as a hotspot for faster internet as I'm on a <5mbps broadband connection.
Reinstalling EA app and the game, which took DAYS as again, slow broadband connection
Using a .bat file to wipe caches and run the game from the .exe
preying to the gods of old
Sacrificing a cat
Restarting my PC before launching it
throwing my wallet at the PC
getting cross
It does run, but once every 10-30 attempts. Today it ran first time. I fired up the PC, hit play and went to make food. 20 minutes later I was looking at the Press A rain screen =)
Since Patch 7.0.1 the games been real weird about launching. As in, it wont.
I thought 7.0.2 would fix it with the "stability fixes" but it doesn't seem to be the case
I have found a workaround though if you have the game on Steam.
Back the game up using Steam Back up.
Uninstall it. Delete the Excalibur folder in your steamapps folder
Go to Mydocs and delete the NFS Unbound folder. Grab a copy of your save file if you wish.
Once done, go back to Steam and "Restore game from Backup". Should take a minute. This avoids any long downloads, which is especially useful for people like me on a slowass internet connection. This download could take DAYS.
Once it's restored/reinstalled, run it.
Let the EA app download everything in the Mydocs folder and pull your save from the clould. This is when you can replace the file if you manually took a copy. The game should then run.
This has worked 5/5 times for me.
