Running the launcher and selecting single player I see the rF2 logo appear and then nothing happens. The launcher itself seems to work, I'm also able to run the dev demo (no idea whether that's helpful). I don't use any VR hardware and didn't install any third party plugins, OS is Windows 10 64 bit.
Started it with trace=100 as command line. This is what I got: Code: TRACE LEVEL = 100 0.01s tracelog.cpp 218: Command line: "+path=".." trace=100" 0.01s main.cpp 358: Version=1.1108 Build=1108 0.01s main.cpp 359: FPU=0x0008001f 0.01s game.cpp 1421: Setting Mod Path "Packages" 1 0 0.25s game.cpp 1817: Entered Game::Enter() 0.25s osman.cpp 901: Entered OSMan::Enter() 0.28s osman.cpp 963: exe is 64-bit 0.28s hwinput.cpp 7898: Entered HWInput::Enter() 0.28s hwinput.cpp 7899: HKL=0x04070407 0.28s plrfile.cpp 2934: Entered PlayerFile::Enter() 0.35s hwinput.cpp 7966: DirectInput enumerated 0 game controller(s) 0.35s plrfile.cpp 2102: Attempting to save to D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\rFactor 2\UserData\player\player.TMP 0.37s plrfile.cpp 2126: Retcode: 0 for renaming to D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\rFactor 2\UserData\player\player.JSON 0.42s plrfile.cpp 1762: Could not find PLR file and failed to create one! 0.42s game.cpp 2604: Entered Game::Exit() 0.42s sound.cpp 1675: Entered Sound::Exit() 0.42s specialfx.cp 4543: Entered SpecialFX::Exit() 0.42s hwinput.cpp 8197: Entered HWInput::Exit() 0.42s dynman.cpp 3051: Entered DynMan::Exit() 0.42s render.cpp 3068: Entered Render::Exit() 0.42s onscreen.cpp 4224: Entered OnScreen::Exit() 0.42s vidman.cpp 3083: Entered VidMan::Exit() 0.42s osman.cpp 971: Entered OSMan::Exit() What is a PLR file?
Looks like your game folder isn't writeable by the current Windows user and/or Steam/rF2. It's trying to create the PLR file: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\rFactor 2\UserData\player\player.JSON ...but cannot.
Had this problem about 4 months back.. I had to edit the RFactor 2 directory and all sub directories to read/write. (For some reason the steam installer sometimes creates the folder as read only to the system Browse to your rFactor 2 folder, right click, properties, permissions and change the settings so that folder and all subfolders are read/write.
Have you recently reformatted? Only time I had this issue it was after I formatted and had changed the username I used in Windows. The user from my (now wiped) install of Windows had ownership of the folders and I literally had to either open every single directory in there to give the current user permission, fiddle with permissions endlessly, or wipe and start again, so I wiped.
I get a black screen right after the start > rf2.exe no respond and thats it. Had no issues 2 weeks ago. Any ideas ?