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[Archived] osu! won't open

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ArtillerySenpai
It was working fine yesterday but it won't open today. How do I fix this?

My osu! is on Stable(Latest)
Glowix
Please provide more information. What exactly happened the day before? What did you do?
Topic Starter
ArtillerySenpai
I didn't do anything. That's why I'm confused.
o x
Try running osu! as an administrator
Topic Starter
ArtillerySenpai
It's really weird, it shows osu! at processes on Windows Task Manger then it suddenly disappears.
Glowix
Try clicking on osu! in the task manager, and end process, then try launching osu! again.

Also, try deleting osu!. If it interrupts you saying that osu! is still running, then you may have left it on in some way. If you delete osu, then restore it from the recycle bin, and try running osu!.
Topic Starter
ArtillerySenpai
Sorry for late reply, I slept but the what Glowix said didn't work. Also, I tried to reinstall but even the installer won't open.
Dntm8kmeeatu
Did you ever try restarting your computer once the issue started to happen?

Try looking on Event Viewer for any errors.
Topic Starter
ArtillerySenpai
Yes, and I tried to reinstall. It open on Stable(Fallback) but after I updated it, it didn't open again.

Edit: I reinstalled and it opened on Stable(Fallback) but I updated it to Stable(Latest) and won't open again.
Please help.
Kao
Try running the game in compatibility mode
Method 1: Launch Repair Dialog
  1. Hold down the Shift key on your keyboard.
  2. While holding Shift, double click the osu! icon on your desktop.
  3. Continue holding Shift until you see the recovery dialog prompt.
  4. From there, under Renderer, check "Compatibility mode"
Method 2: Shortcut
If you have the "repair osu!" Shortcut, opening that also works.

Method 3: Config Shortcut
If you don't have the "repair osu!" Shortcut, you can create one instead.
  1. Right click osu!.exe > Create a shortcut
  2. Open properties of the shortcut
    1. Select then Alt + Enter or
    2. Right click > Properties
  3. Set Target to ...\osu!.exe -config
  4. Press OK then open the shortcut

Method 4: Text document
You can also force the updater to run by creating a new text document in your osu! folder called "help". Right-click in an empty space in your osu! folder, and choose New > Text Document.

Name it help and then run osu! to start the updater in forced maintenance mode.
Lacrimosa
If there is no Compatibility Mode option in the recovery dialog, go to your osu! folder and open the "osu!.username.cfg" file with notepad.

From there, change the CompatibilityContext line to 1. ( CompatibilityContext = 1)
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ArtillerySenpai

Kao wrote:

Try running the game in compatibility mode
Method 1: Launch Repair Dialog
  1. Hold down the Shift key on your keyboard.
  2. While holding Shift, double click the osu! icon on your desktop.
  3. Continue holding Shift until you see the recovery dialog prompt.
  4. From there, under Renderer, check "Compatibility mode"
Method 2: Shortcut
If you have the "repair osu!" Shortcut, opening that also works.

Method 3: Config Shortcut
If you don't have the "repair osu!" Shortcut, you can create one instead.
  1. Right click osu!.exe > Create a shortcut
  2. Open properties of the shortcut
    1. Select then Alt + Enter or
    2. Right click > Properties
  3. Set Target to ...\osu!.exe -config
  4. Press OK then open the shortcut

Method 4: Text document
You can also force the updater to run by creating a new text document in your osu! folder called "help". Right-click in an empty space in your osu! folder, and choose New > Text Document.

Name it help and then run osu! to start the updater in forced maintenance mode.
Method 1:
Didn't open

Method 2:
Also didn't open

Method 3:
Also didn't open

Method 4:
osu didn't even open

What I've noticed is that the process of osu! in the background runs then suddenly it disappears.
Also, thank you for giving the effort to help me. :D
Hiruma1
I have the same problem, can you help me ?
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Hiruma1 wrote:

I have the same problem, can you help me ?
Make a new thread please.
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