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Posted May 19, 2015
I tried all of the sugested solutions. sadly nothing works. Crashlog indicates:

Crash reason: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (3221225477), Error reading location 0x941f15e4
Posted May 19, 2015
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MushRush: well I have the same problem. I tried all the above but still not working.

the game show in the Task Manager, Background processes. I just don't see it.

installed the new Nvidia driver. removed the Galaxy Client service and communications no joy.

waiting for Galaxy support.
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Hycinthus: Did you try these
3) Then,
Go to the game folder / bin / x64 and delete or rename galaxy.dll... Launch the game, a error dialog will pop out but the game actually runs.

4) If all fails, reboot PC, some found this worked for some of us.
I swear to God I did every thing you said, even got the pop up warning! rebooted my PC. but still simply the game is working in the background,
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Posted May 19, 2015
I had the game on my D: drive and when i run gog galaxy client it said insufficient disk space (i have a SSD for my boot drive) so i went into settings and changed the gog locations from C: to D:

closed galaxy and launched the game manually and it loaded
Posted May 19, 2015
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Hycinthus: Did you try these
3) Then,
Go to the game folder / bin / x64 and delete or rename galaxy.dll... Launch the game, a error dialog will pop out but the game actually runs.

4) If all fails, reboot PC, some found this worked for some of us.
i did that several times already.. nothing helps.. ;(
Posted May 19, 2015
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Hycinthus: Did you try these
3) Then,
Go to the game folder / bin / x64 and delete or rename galaxy.dll... Launch the game, a error dialog will pop out but the game actually runs.

4) If all fails, reboot PC, some found this worked for some of us.
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MushRush: I swear to God I did every thing you said, even got the pop up warning! rebooted my PC. but still simply the game is working in the background,
I'm sorry. I also think that this is a temporary solution, even for me. I'm gonna wake up one day, and this error is gonna bite me in the ass, if there's some update error or something.

I hope there is a formal fix coming soon.

How about uninstall the game? You have the game downloaded already so no need to redownload all 24gigs.

Just uninstall galaxy, and uninstall the game, and reinstall manually using the .exe file
Posted May 19, 2015
Same for me. Uninstalled Galaxy, killed the services, game still won't start up.

I will not re-download the game using galaxy as my internet is both slow (3mbit) and has caps (200gb).

With so many other people having problems, I'd guess another patch will be out in short order, so I'll try again then.

Figures the first time I pre-order something in many years, it has problems.
Posted May 19, 2015
Thanks people for trying to help us.

to CD-Projekt Red,

this is ridiculous. i want to play the game, without the need to study computer-science in the process.
Posted May 19, 2015
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MushRush: I swear to God I did every thing you said, even got the pop up warning! rebooted my PC. but still simply the game is working in the background,
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Hycinthus: I'm sorry. I also think that this is a temporary solution, even for me. I'm gonna wake up one day, and this error is gonna bite me in the ass, if there's some update error or something.

I hope there is a formal fix coming soon.

How about uninstall the game? You have the game downloaded already so no need to redownload all 24gigs.

Just uninstall galaxy, and uninstall the game, and reinstall manually using the .exe file
I think re-installing the game might be a fix. I just have to go to work in 2 hours I don't really have the best time now. it's okay, I can wait till a fix come from CPR. I'm sure they are looking into it.
Posted May 19, 2015
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Hycinthus: I think the problem comes up for people who tried to use GOG Galaxy , installed it, tried download, then gave up. Then tried manually.

It doesn't happen to people who sticked with Galaxy all the way through. Or manually all the way through.

It's the ones combining both methods?
It shouldn't really matter because no matter how you install it you should end up with the same files installed and set up the same. I did pre-download through Galaxy and run it from the Galaxy client successfully the first time without a hitch, but it runs fine without Galaxy and I've set it up in Steam client now and launched it from there too (to get an FPS counter and be able to take screenshots and broadcast the game to friends to watch). Works, works, and works. :)

It is possible that mixing things up may have caused a problem for some folks though, I'd just recommend to clear everything out and reinstall and make sure there is plenty of disk space. Download the standalone installers if you aren't sure if things will work via Galaxy for you or not so you don't have to download it multiple times if something goes wrong though.
Posted May 19, 2015
May or may not help some, but I couldn't get the game to work either, until I realized I download my games to Program Files x86. After transferring them all to the standard, x64, Program Files Witcher 3 will now work. Not entirely sure why it would matter, as either way the system is x64, but it worked in my case.
Posted May 19, 2015
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Hycinthus: I think the problem comes up for people who tried to use GOG Galaxy , installed it, tried download, then gave up. Then tried manually.

It doesn't happen to people who sticked with Galaxy all the way through. Or manually all the way through.

It's the ones combining both methods?
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skeletonbow: It shouldn't really matter because no matter how you install it you should end up with the same files installed and set up the same. I did pre-download through Galaxy and run it from the Galaxy client successfully the first time without a hitch, but it runs fine without Galaxy and I've set it up in Steam client now and launched it from there too (to get an FPS counter and be able to take screenshots and broadcast the game to friends to watch). Works, works, and works. :)

It is possible that mixing things up may have caused a problem for some folks though, I'd just recommend to clear everything out and reinstall and make sure there is plenty of disk space. Download the standalone installers if you aren't sure if things will work via Galaxy for you or not so you don't have to download it multiple times if something goes wrong though.
Definitely something with galaxy though. Because I changed the name of galaxy.dll, and now the game launches. PReviously it crashed and never launches.
Posted May 19, 2015
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indefinite_rage: I just installed patch 1.01 3 times and the game still won't fire up. Click the application file directly in the folder and still won't do anything.

I don't see anyone else with this issue, so I figured I'd post about it.

Currently re-installing the game.

Thankfully I didn't delete the install files...
https://www.gog.com/forum/the_witcher_3_wild_hunt
Posted May 19, 2015
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skeletonbow: It shouldn't really matter because no matter how you install it you should end up with the same files installed and set up the same. I did pre-download through Galaxy and run it from the Galaxy client successfully the first time without a hitch, but it runs fine without Galaxy and I've set it up in Steam client now and launched it from there too (to get an FPS counter and be able to take screenshots and broadcast the game to friends to watch). Works, works, and works. :)

It is possible that mixing things up may have caused a problem for some folks though, I'd just recommend to clear everything out and reinstall and make sure there is plenty of disk space. Download the standalone installers if you aren't sure if things will work via Galaxy for you or not so you don't have to download it multiple times if something goes wrong though.
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Hycinthus: Definitely something with galaxy though. Because I changed the name of galaxy.dll, and now the game launches. PReviously it crashed and never launches.
Well, that's really weird! I never deleted/changed any Galaxy files, having installed manually, and the game worked fine, apart from my reboot that is.
Posted May 19, 2015
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Hycinthus: I think the problem comes up for people who tried to use GOG Galaxy , installed it, tried download, then gave up. Then tried manually.

It doesn't happen to people who sticked with Galaxy all the way through. Or manually all the way through.

It's the ones combining both methods?
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skeletonbow: It shouldn't really matter because no matter how you install it you should end up with the same files installed and set up the same. I did pre-download through Galaxy and run it from the Galaxy client successfully the first time without a hitch, but it runs fine without Galaxy and I've set it up in Steam client now and launched it from there too (to get an FPS counter and be able to take screenshots and broadcast the game to friends to watch). Works, works, and works. :)

It is possible that mixing things up may have caused a problem for some folks though, I'd just recommend to clear everything out and reinstall and make sure there is plenty of disk space. Download the standalone installers if you aren't sure if things will work via Galaxy for you or not so you don't have to download it multiple times if something goes wrong though.
as i stated before. There is no mixing up in my case. I downloaded it manualy, i installed it manualy. and it doesn't work.
Posted May 19, 2015
The deleting of the galaxy.dll in the The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt\bin\x64 folder gave me an error on startup but the game does run. Shouldn't have to do this tho, update please.
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