"Failed to launch JVM on startup"

[Spacewolf4]

Running fully updated Win11 on a new laptop. Have installed Pdx-U from latest installer after installing everything else needed. I click the desktop icon, a dialog box appears, stating "Failed to launch JVM on startup". Happens regardless of how often I do a clean install. How do I fix this?

[crschnick]

Hmm ... can you try downloading the latest standalone zip version, extract it, and run runtime\\bin\\pdxu.bat in it?

[Spacewolf4]

Extract just that file, or the whole zip archive?

On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 3:09 PM Christopher Schnick < @.***> wrote:

Hmm ... can you try downloading the latest standalone zip version, extract it, and run runtime\bin\pdxu.bat in it?

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[Spacewolf4]

Extracted the whole zip file, did as instructed. It worked. Meanwhile the installer version did not.

On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 7:18 PM John Penta @.***> wrote:

Extract just that file, or the whole zip archive?

On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 3:09 PM Christopher Schnick < @.***> wrote:

Hmm ... can you try downloading the latest standalone zip version, extract it, and run runtime\bin\pdxu.bat in it?

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[crschnick]

Yeah the .exe it's just a small launcher to run the .bat file. Sadly I don't have a lot of control over the generated .exe, so I can't really tell you what went wrong there.

Is this your first time running pdxu or has it worked previously somewhere on another system?

[Spacewolf4]

It worked previously on my old laptop, but that one has a bunch of hardware failures so isn't available for testing.

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Yeah the .exe it's just a small launcher to run the .bat file. Sadly I don't have a lot of control over the generated .exe, so I can't really tell you what went wrong there.

Is this your first time running pdxu or has it worked previously somewhere on another system?

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[crschnick]

If more reports of this issue come in, I could file a Java bug report for that. That is all I can do about this.

[Spacewolf4]

Understood, thanks for that.

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If more reports of this issue come in, I could file a Java bug report for that. That is all I can do about this.

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[thandley]

I have encountered this issue today, after using the windows installer version successfully for over a year.

It happened after I tried to load my latest CK3 save and an unrelated bluescreen on Win 11 crashed the game. When I rebooted I can't get the installed version to start.

The standalone one works.

[crschnick]

@thandley You can try deleting C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Programs\Pdx-Unlimiter\app\ and relaunching pdxu. That should trigger a new download.

[crschnick]

Although that definitely indicates that something on your hard drive has been corrupted if it worked before. The bluescreen might be related to that. Personally I would look into checking the disk for errors and preparing a replacement, you don't want it to die on you unexpectedly.

[thandley]

That worked, thanks!