total war launcher failed to initialize steam

and now I can't even get to the log in screen anymore, its just black with music playing and my computer stops responding and I have to kill the power. I might have been able to play a few missions and get up to a nice part of the sacrifice storey, but then everything quickly went to sh!t.Īt first, I would crash during cut-scenes, which was annoying but it didn't block progress (I can't watch them on youtube later), until a certain cut-scene (that is unskippable) would play and I would crash within 2-3 seconds of it playing through.ĭid the normal troubleshooting things like verify, optimise, reinstall drivers, settings on low, etc. When this was finished, I change the language back to English and was able to log back inĪll my settings were reset back to default, so I had to change my graphics settings and reload the game This also downloaded a 200mb patch which I assume is the language patch This made the client reload and it appeared to have gone through the agreement (TOS) and initial startup again. Changed Language to French - did nothing, same issueĬhanged Language to Russian - did nothing, same issueĬhanged Language to the 2nd last one in the list

Total war launcher failed to initialize steam