Horizons works- Odyssey does NOT

Moonshire

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I have a computer with an Intel G4560 CPU (3.6Ghz), with 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GTX 1070 GPU and Windows 7.

The Elite Dangerous Launcher seems to work alright and has installed both Horizons and Odyssey- though Horizons launches normally and plays fine, Odyssey does not launch at all.

If I press the "Play" button with Odyssey highlighted as my choice, it will "try" to load and the button disappears...but then after a pause, the button re-appears without loading the game.

Any ideas? I already tried removing the C++ installations and replacing them per Frontier's Troubleshooting FAQs, but still no luck.

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UNST3RBLICH

UNST3RBLICH
Mine launches the Odyssey executable, but just hangs on a black screen with no sound. Have tried every step in the knowledge based and a bunch of stuff from Google searches. Nothing works. I've put in a ticket, so if they can manage to provide a solution I'll let you know in case it works for you too.
 

CMDR Hydden

CMDR Hydden
I finally fixed mine with a full uninstall/reinstall and some manual running of EDLaunch.exe.

Post with details here:

Problems with Steam and Odyssey since the hotfix? "UPDATE REQUIRED" and greyed out "INSTALL" button? Possible fix for you.

If you're having problems on Steam, especially if you bought through FDev's site, this may help you. This is for people who've tried other methods or parts of this method and still had no success. I don't claim this is the easiest or quickest fix, just what ended up working for me. Note: I'm...
forums.frontier.co.uk forums.frontier.co.uk

Not a great process but I can verify for my case it fixed it. Have been able to login with manual EDLaunch as well as through Steam.
 

Moonshire

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UNST3RBLICH said:
Mine launches the Odyssey executable, but just hangs on a black screen with no sound. Have tried every step in the knowledge based and a bunch of stuff from Google searches. Nothing works. I've put in a ticket, so if they can manage to provide a solution I'll let you know in case it works for you too.
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Thanks. Hopefully I can get in on the new game I purchased. lol
 

Moonshire

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CMDR Hydden said:
I finally fixed mine with a full uninstall/reinstall and some manual running of EDLaunch.exe.

Post with details here:

Problems with Steam and Odyssey since the hotfix? "UPDATE REQUIRED" and greyed out "INSTALL" button? Possible fix for you.

If you're having problems on Steam, especially if you bought through FDev's site, this may help you. This is for people who've tried other methods or parts of this method and still had no success. I don't claim this is the easiest or quickest fix, just what ended up working for me. Note: I'm...
forums.frontier.co.uk forums.frontier.co.uk

Not a great process but I can verify for my case it fixed it. Have been able to login with manual EDLaunch as well as through Steam.
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Yeah. I don't use Steam at all. I'll check out that post. Thanks.
 

Kossnen

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My boy's was doing this (Although this applies to Steam it may apply to your installation method too). The game said it was downloaded and ready to play. Turns out, it wasn't. He didn't have enough room on his drive. Even verifying on Steam wasn't catching it for some reason. After making room, we were able to reinstall it and it worked fine.

I know it sounds stupid, but when you get no errors, it's easy to miss. The only reason we noticed is because I was commenting on the file size increase to him and he looked at his install folder and noticed it was off.
 

Moonshire

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Kossnen said:
My boy's was doing this (Although this applies to Steam it may apply to your installation method too). The game said it was downloaded and ready to play. Turns out, it wasn't. He didn't have enough room on his drive. Even verifying on Steam wasn't catching it for some reason. After making room, we were able to reinstall it and it worked fine.

I know it sounds stupid, but when you get no errors, it's easy to miss. The only reason we noticed is because I was commenting on the file size increase to him and he looked at his install folder and noticed it was off.
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Unfortunately that's not the case here. I have plenty of space on my hard drive. I'm guessing it has something to do with the new graphics requirements perhaps. I have another machine with Windows 10 and an older graphics card- and the game works there. I just can't be playing on it since it's a work machine.
 

UNST3RBLICH

UNST3RBLICH
Ok, so what ended up working for me was this (Steam version): I verified the game files through Steam, and it turns out like 55 files didn't get downloaded properly. After it downloaded and set up those files, I'm running fine. Hope this helps.
 
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