realQuiGon: Witcher 3 was working fine for me since I started playing it several years ago until a few weeks ago, when I installed the next gen update (I played it just 4 weeks ago without the next gen update). Since I installed the next gen update Witcher 3 doesn't want to launch anymore. When I try to start it, it does appear as a process in the Task Manager, but the game just doesn't come up.

For the past few days I searched the internet for solutions to this issue, but nothing worked. So here is what I have tried so far:

- Removing the Witcher 3 folder under user/documents to clear out all my previous configs

- Launching the witcher3.exe without GOG

- Launching Witcher 3 as administrator

- Reinstalling the game (I had the old normal Witcher 3 edition installation, but I also tried switching to the Witcher 3 Complete Edition and installing this instead, but it didn't change anything in regards to my issue)

- Uninstalling GOG (including the respective "sc delete" cmd commands)

- Removing/renaming the GOG.dll and the Galaxy.dll (this provoked an error message saying that the Galaxy.dll is missing)

- Reinstalling GOG

- Installing/repairing all the Microsoft Visual C++ redistributables

- Reinstalling my graphics drivers

- Disabling all apps with overlays

- Launch Windows in clean boot mode

All of this did not solve my problem. The game just doesn't come up when I try to launch it and I ran out of ideas what to do. This is a very rare situation for me, because as an IT guy who works in the industry I usually manage to fix such issues myself, but not this time. Help please!

smuggly: Revert back to the classis edition.

realQuiGon: But I want to play the next gen update?!

realQuiGon: Witcher 3 was working fine for me since I started playing it several years ago until a few weeks ago, when I installed the next gen update (I played it just 4 weeks ago without the next gen update). Since I installed the next gen update Witcher 3 doesn't want to launch anymore. When I try to start it, it does appear as a process in the Task Manager, but the game just doesn't come up.

For the past few days I have searched the internet for solutions to this issue, but nothing worked. So here is what I have tried so far:

- Removing the Witcher 3 folder under user/documents to clear out all my previous configs

- Launching the witcher3.exe without GOG

- Launching Witcher 3 as administrator

- Reinstalling the game (I had the old normal Witcher 3 edition installation, but I also tried switching to the Witcher 3 Complete Edition and installing this instead, but it didn't change anything in regards to my issue)

- Uninstalling GOG (including the respective "sc delete" cmd commands)

- Removing/renaming the GOG.dll and the Galaxy.dll (this provoked an error message saying that the Galaxy.dll is missing)

- Reinstalling GOG

- Installing/repairing all the Microsoft Visual C++ redistributables

- Reinstalling my graphics drivers

- Disabling all apps with overlays

- Launch Windows in clean boot mode

All of this did not solve my problem. The game just doesn't come up when I try to launch it and I ran out of ideas what to do. This is a very rare situation for me, because as an IT guy who works in the industry I usually manage to fix such issues myself, but not this time. Help please!

smuggly: You can play the DX 11 version then. I have it here and Steam. I have the steam version installed and play DX 11 until they fix DX 12.
What's your Hardware. Maybe it's that.

Tarjafan: I have same problem, worked fine though after next gen release... Steam version running ok for me.

EDIT: I deleted "patch0" folder in "...\The Witcher 3\content" After that game started after couple of seconds. I also reverted to the 4.0 release version but it was not starting anyway until i deleted this folder. I also deleted config files in documents. And let the game created new ones, it created the files but also failed to start.

Tarjafan: I have same problem, worked fine though after next gen release... Steam version running ok for me.

EDIT: I deleted "patch0" folder in "...\The Witcher 3\content" After that game started after couple of seconds. I also reverted to the 4.0 release version but it was not starting anyway until i deleted this folder. I also deleted config files in documents. And let the game created new ones, it created the files but also failed to start.

Tarjafan: I have same problem, worked fine though after next gen release... Steam version running ok for me.

EDIT: I deleted "patch0" folder in "...\The Witcher 3\content" After that game started after couple of seconds. I also reverted to the 4.0 release version but it was not starting anyway until i deleted this folder. I also deleted config files in documents. And let the game created new ones, it created the files but also failed to start.

Tarjafan: EDIT: I deleted "patch0" folder in "...\The Witcher 3\content" After that game started after couple of seconds. I also reverted to the 4.0 release version but it was not starting anyway until i deleted this folder. I also deleted config files in documents. And let the game created new ones, it created the files but also failed to start.