Cities Skylines doesn't work after activating dynamic resolution

[Ltw 401]

I've experienced some problems with Cities: Skylines a while ago. After I reinstalled my entire system and reinstalled Skylines the game started working. Therefore I've activated some mods that didn't seem to influence gaming experience too much and it still worked fine. However, I wasn't satisfied with the resolution, therefore I've reactivated Dynamic Resolution which was still in my list. As it turns out, this was a mistake. After I've reactivated it the game closed down and I couldn't restart it anymore. When I'm at the loading-screen (at the paradox logo) I get an error that the program isn't working. After that it closes down. I've already unsubscribed from the mod and I've reinstalled steam and Skylines. I still get the same error. Does anyone have a solution for this problem that doesn't require me to reinstall my entire pc? It would help out a lot!

[Judazzz 1,936]

I'm sorry that I can't help you, and I'm not trying to hijack this thread, but I have a good reason for posting: I'm having the exact same problem. Well, as in that my game isn't starting either. I came back from holiday yesterday, not having touched the game for almost 4 weeks, and whereas it worked fine before I left, I haven't been able to restart the game since I came back home. Have Dynamic Resolution installed as well, but it should be set at 100% (as I always have, I never close the game with a different value for DR), so I'm not quite sure if that mod is the culprit.

Any help, tips/suggestions or additional info would be appreciated. Like, are there any mods that have become obsolete or have become incompatible with others during the last 4 weeks, has there been a game update, etc? Thanks in advance!  

Don't worry @Ltw, we'll get to the bottom of this, even if it's the last thing I'll ever do!  

Edit, some additional info:

• the game crashes when the Paradox logo is showing;
• -disableMods doesn't make a difference;
• scanning the output log, I've found two Exceptions pointing towards NExt (twice a System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException), which however doesn't seem to play a role (the game still crashed after un-subbing from it);
• the game seems to crash during OnSettingsUI, which afaik. indeed suggests a mod-related issue.
  Last mod mentioned by name in the output log appears to be Roads United Core+. I'm getting this message: ColossalFramework.UI.UITextureAtlas must be instantiated using the ScriptableObject.CreateInstance method instead of new UITextureAtlas, followed by a few afaik. harmless m_SteamUGCRequestMap error: 15 [Steam, Native - Internal] (Filename: C:/buildslave/unity/build/artifacts/generated/common/runtime/UnityEngineDebugBindings.gen.cpp Line: 65), and then nothing....)

[Ltw 401]

13 minutes ago, Judazzz said:

I'm sorry that I can't help you, and I'm not trying to hijack this thread, but I have a good reason for posting: I'm having the exact same problem. Well, as in that my game isn't starting either. I came back from holiday yesterday, not having touched the game for almost 4 weeks, and whereas it worked fine before I left, I haven't been able to restart the game since I came back home. Have Dynamic Resolution installed as well, but it should be set at 100% (as I always have, I never close the game with a different value for DR), so I'm not quite sure if that mod is the culprit.

Any help, tips/suggestions or additional info would be appreciated. Like, are there any mods that have become obsolete or have become incompatible with others during the last 4 weeks, has there been a game update, etc? Thanks in advance!  

Don't worry @Ltw, we'll get to the bottom of this, even if it's the last thing I'll ever do!  

Okay. This got me thinking and I think I solved the problem. The problem occured when I activated Dynamic Resolution, I have around 30 plugins installed and this was the only change I've made. After that it stopped working. However, when I unsubscribed the problem still occured. Saying it is just a mod-problem might be a hasty conclusion. Since I only changed the DR-mod I thought it might be caused by the custom resolution settings. I don't know exactly how it happens but the next steps worked for me:

Go to your library in Steam. Right-click on Cities: Skylines and go to properties. Click on 'Set launch options', then you can enter the following variables: -width 1980 -height 1080 (or whatever resolution you desire). If you start Skylines with these settings you can launch the game without it crashing. It started in windowed mode but you can make it fullscreen by pressing Alt + Enter. After you've started it once with these settings you can remove the custom settings again. If you start it like you used to it should work normally again.

However, I've tried this without Dynamic Resolution. Could you try to do this with DR? I'm curious about what will happen if you try it with DR. If that works fine I'll subscribe to the mod again

[Judazzz 1,936]

1 hour ago, Ltw said:

Okay. This got me thinking and I think I solved the problem. The problem occured when I activated Dynamic Resolution, I have around 30 plugins installed and this was the only change I've made. After that it stopped working. However, when I unsubscribed the problem still occured. Saying it is just a mod-problem might be a hasty conclusion. Since I only changed the DR-mod I thought it might be caused by the custom resolution settings. I don't know exactly how it happens but the next steps worked for me:

Go to your library in Steam. Right-click on Cities: Skylines and go to properties. Click on 'Set launch options', then you can enter the following variables: -width 1980 -height 1080 (or whatever resolution you desire). If you start Skylines with these settings you can launch the game without it crashing. It started in windowed mode but you can make it fullscreen by pressing Alt + Enter. After you've started it once with these settings you can remove the custom settings again. If you start it like you used to it should work normally again.

However, I've tried this without Dynamic Resolution. Could you try to do this with DR? I'm curious about what will happen if you try it with DR. If that works fine I'll subscribe to the mod again

Nope, no cigar, with or without Dynamic Resolution 
Even after changing your suggestion to -width  1920 -height 1080

Guess all that remains is uninstalling and reinstalling the whole thing (and backing up all my custom content, saves, settings, etc.), yay... This game at times really reminds me of Jenga: make one wrong move, and BAM!, you're f'ed... Hopefully I'll be able to revive my River Valley city: I don't particularly feel like having to start from scratch once again :S 

[OwiHH 240]

1. try to launch with the option "--noWorkshop" right captures

if not

2. delete the file DynamicResolutionConfig within xxx:\Steam\steamapps\Common\Cities_Skylines

try to start allways with "--noWorkshop" until the game launches

3. try delete the file gameSettings.cgs within the xxx:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Colossal Order/Citiesskyline" folder

try to start allways with "--noWorkshop" until the game launches

does that help ?

[Judazzz 1,936]

Oh crap, I thought I had tried and tested every issue-fixing approach known to man, but I totally didn't think about deleting GameSettings (I had this niggling feeling I was forgetting something... *facepalm* )
It's too late now, I've already uninstalled the game - not that it really matters, re-downloading shouldn't take long, and neither should restoring all my custom stuff. Hopefully this fixes the issue, because if not, I have no idea what else to try - fingers crossed!

Thanks for all your suggestions, though - I really appreciate it!!!

[Judazzz 1,936]

Well, after 2 un-/re-installs I finally managed to revive the game \o/
In the end all it took was Thale5's Don't Crash mod - not sure what exactly it did under the hood, but somehow it rewired everything properly again. And for some reason the game seems to run much smoother now - not sure if that's caused by Don't Crash, but I most certainly don;t mind the extra fps my laptop manages the squeeze out of its hardware!

[Ltw 401]

On 7-10-2016 at 11:31 PM, Judazzz said:

Well, after 2 un-/re-installs I finally managed to revive the game \o/
In the end all it took was Thale5's Don't Crash mod - not sure what exactly it did under the hood, but somehow it rewired everything properly again. And for some reason the game seems to run much smoother now - not sure if that's caused by Don't Crash, but I most certainly don;t mind the extra fps my laptop manages the squeeze out of its hardware!

Thanks for the advice about the Don't Crash mod! Didn't hear about that one yet. I've reinstalled Skylines as well, and I've subscribed to Thale5's Don't Crash mod. Now it works like a charm. Was a little bit difficult to get it started at first but after a few times it started up nicely. I've also started a new city. My old city wasn't very stable anymore and I could imagine that didn't help that much