SureAI

As the title already explains, I am having currently trouble with starting Enderal (in german).
My hardware is an unmodified Acer Aspire V Nitro notebook i bought as new 2 years ago. It was able to play Enderal pre-steam with it, and could put 40+ hours into forgotten stories on steam. The troubles started with an update which I think was around last wednesday (13.03.), where I had an update which steam claimed to be 0 Bytes big. After it was finished, I can still start Enderal and get the launcher, but when I click the start button, the fanfare-noise is heard, the cmd opens and the launcher automatically closes. Sometimes the screen turns black and Skyrim is started, but it closes after ~15 seconds. Afterwards steam often freezes, as if there is a lot of load to be handled and when it proceeds it's work, Enderal and Skyrim are both synchronizing.

Starting Skyrim without Enderal still works.

What I already tried:
Restarting system (obviously).
Restarting steam
Repairing local files of Forgotten Stories
Reinstalling forgotten stories

Is this a known problem? I have not found anything in the forums.

Help would be much appreciated.

could you check the Launcher settings if anything changed?
particulary the "optimizations" - tab, try to turn off (or on) OneTweak/ENBoost/OSAllocators.

if that doesn't work delete the two *.ini from ...\Documents\My Games\Enderal;
(the launcher will create new ones)


also, even if it's unlikely, you might want to try to "reinstall" Steam.
you don't have to reinstall your games: hope that helps

Hello Urst

Thanks for the effort, I really appreciate it.

I tried all three of your solutions, sadly it did not help fixing the problem.
That being said, deleting the *.ini files did do something. Starting the game after deleting the *.ini files did not close the launcher,
but I got the following error message:
"Failed to initialize renderer. Your display doesn't support the selected resolution. Please set a different resolution in Skyrim's Launcher under 'Display Settings'."

Would you happen to know what this could mean for Forgotten Stories?

I guess you're using 1920 x 1080 (16:9) resolution for your desktop?
If you have OneTweak "off", you can change your resolution.
You can also set your CPU and RAM in the launcher.
Under Basic Settings you can see the current resolution, you can also turn off VSYNC and test the window mode. (original frameless window mode)

here urst had already pointed it out.
If you have activated the boosters (OneTweak; ENBoost; OCAllocators), you can find them in the launcher under Settings, Optimizations. Turn them on or off for testing.
PS:
That the launcher stays on while playing is ok, you can also find this setting in the launcher,
under Settings, Miscellaneous.

Short update

I tried playing around with the configurations, but it did not help so I chose the "screw this" method and started my own little cleansing.
After deleting Skyrim, ENderal and Steam (and also the ini files of the games) and reinstalling everything, it now works, though I also needed to change the resolution in the options.

Who knew that going full Koarec sometimes solves a problem?

Anyway, thanks to you guys for helping me.

Problem solved. Now please excuse, I need to finish this Rhalata-questline.

if it works, it works