So, a few days ago, I was trying to play Bulletstorm 'cause I did an article for Kotaku about interesting handguns, and I wanted to get Bulletstorm's handgun in there. For some reason, the game wouldn't launch.
I asked here, I checked elsewhere, and like... literally nothing worked.
I deleted GFWL. I did installs for various english language versions. I tried the "run without GFWL" patch. For whatever reason, GFWL store opens with a new account, but won't open with my normal XBL account, but that's another issue I don't really get. Not a big deal, as most GFWL games will run just fine without it.
I tried installing it on my laptop. No deal (I think Win10 syncs my My Documents folders between machines?). NOTHING worked. The game just would not launch. Even tried installing on Origin and going through my registry and stripping out GFWL, Windows Sign in, and all that jazz. (Something is still up with this, because GFWL Marketplace autofills my xbl email/password combo whenever I type the email in, even though I thought I deleted the data).
The only way I was gonna get a screenshot from the game was either by starting it up on 360--I own it there somehow--and playing through until I got the pistol, which I didn't have time for, or... buying the Gearbox version, which, well, I can't afford to buy any games right now. I just lost my apartment and am sleeping in someone's spare room right now. It's awful but that's beside the point.
So I've been really bummed out. Nothing worked. And, like, guys, I figured out why The Suffering wouldn't load its graphics properly today. I did all sorts of crazy stuff. Installed every old game that shouldn't be able to run that I had. Everything worked with enough poking and prodding.
But not Bulletstorm.
Then I got the bright idea to delete my Bulletstorm folder in My Documents. What if I had a corrupted save?
It worked. I did all the basic FOV/movieskip tweaks to make the game properly playable, and then I jumped in the game.
For some weird reason, Bulletstorm still keeps track of most of my stats. I could launch any mission--it recognized I had beat the campaign--but my actual save files were gone, so I couldn't pick up where I'd left off. I played a bit, earned an achievement with GFWL, like... everything seems to work.
Then someone sends me a message on twitter.
"Have you installed Get Even recently? It messes up Bulletstorm"
I'm reading this going "Um... yeah?"
"As in, the game seems to use use BulletStorm\StormGame\Config for storing its very important configuration files."
what.
Sure enough, this is actually a thing.
https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Get_Even
Fun fact, the reason that The Suffering's graphics are broken is because when you install The Suffering 2, it uh... it breaks the graphics. You can't have both games installed simultaneously.
So yeah, today, I had two different games fail to work because two other games interrupted them.
Crazy stuff.
Anyways, if Bulletstorm won't start, delete your saves and, uh, mess around with Get Even.
Or just buy the Gearbox port.
Edit:
I asked here, I checked elsewhere, and like... literally nothing worked.
I deleted GFWL. I did installs for various english language versions. I tried the "run without GFWL" patch. For whatever reason, GFWL store opens with a new account, but won't open with my normal XBL account, but that's another issue I don't really get. Not a big deal, as most GFWL games will run just fine without it.
I tried installing it on my laptop. No deal (I think Win10 syncs my My Documents folders between machines?). NOTHING worked. The game just would not launch. Even tried installing on Origin and going through my registry and stripping out GFWL, Windows Sign in, and all that jazz. (Something is still up with this, because GFWL Marketplace autofills my xbl email/password combo whenever I type the email in, even though I thought I deleted the data).
The only way I was gonna get a screenshot from the game was either by starting it up on 360--I own it there somehow--and playing through until I got the pistol, which I didn't have time for, or... buying the Gearbox version, which, well, I can't afford to buy any games right now. I just lost my apartment and am sleeping in someone's spare room right now. It's awful but that's beside the point.
So I've been really bummed out. Nothing worked. And, like, guys, I figured out why The Suffering wouldn't load its graphics properly today. I did all sorts of crazy stuff. Installed every old game that shouldn't be able to run that I had. Everything worked with enough poking and prodding.
But not Bulletstorm.
Then I got the bright idea to delete my Bulletstorm folder in My Documents. What if I had a corrupted save?
It worked. I did all the basic FOV/movieskip tweaks to make the game properly playable, and then I jumped in the game.
For some weird reason, Bulletstorm still keeps track of most of my stats. I could launch any mission--it recognized I had beat the campaign--but my actual save files were gone, so I couldn't pick up where I'd left off. I played a bit, earned an achievement with GFWL, like... everything seems to work.
Then someone sends me a message on twitter.
"Have you installed Get Even recently? It messes up Bulletstorm"
I'm reading this going "Um... yeah?"
"As in, the game seems to use use BulletStorm\StormGame\Config for storing its very important configuration files."
what.
Sure enough, this is actually a thing.
https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Get_Even
Fun fact, the reason that The Suffering's graphics are broken is because when you install The Suffering 2, it uh... it breaks the graphics. You can't have both games installed simultaneously.
So yeah, today, I had two different games fail to work because two other games interrupted them.
Crazy stuff.
Anyways, if Bulletstorm won't start, delete your saves and, uh, mess around with Get Even.
Or just buy the Gearbox port.
Edit: