Game crashes on startup

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Superjo

Hello all, I've been trying to run SK on my pretty new laptop (purchased new 4 months ago), but after installing the windows client the game will open to a black screen, play a half second of the music, and then crash. I have confirmed that my computer meets the minimum requirements, I have downloaded the latest version of Java, tried playing through steam instead, creating firewall exceptions, you name it. Here's some other information that I hope can help someone help me!:

Laptop model: HP Laptop PC 15-dy2000 (2D117AV)
Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-1125G4 @ 2.00GHz 2.00 GHz
RAM: 8 GB
GPU: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 27.20.100.9664
Storage: more than 130 GB free

Additionally here are the contents of the projectx.txt and launcher.txt since that seems helpful:

projectx.txt

2021/10/16 10:39:36:361 INFO K$a.b: Logging to 'C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights\.\projectx.log'.
2021/10/16 10:39:40:733 WARNING DefaultControllerEnvironment.getControllers: Found unknown Windows version: Windows NT (unknown)
2021/10/16 10:39:40:734 WARNING DefaultControllerEnvironment.getControllers: Attempting to use default windows plug-in.
2021/10/16 10:39:40:889 INFO ControllerEnvironment.log: Failed to initialize device HIDI2C Device because of: java.io.IOException: Failed to acquire device (8007001e)

2021/10/16 10:39:42:117 INFO K$a.b: Connecting [host=game.spiralknights.com/34.235.98.3, port=47624]

launcher.txt

2021/10/16 10:39:35:566 INFO m.a: ------------------ VM Info ------------------
2021/10/16 10:39:35:576 INFO m.a: -- OS Name: Windows NT (unknown)
2021/10/16 10:39:35:576 INFO m.a: -- OS Arch: x86
2021/10/16 10:39:35:576 INFO m.a: -- OS Vers: 6.2
2021/10/16 10:39:35:576 INFO m.a: -- Java Vers: 1.6.0_25
2021/10/16 10:39:35:576 INFO m.a: -- Java Home: C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights\java_vm
2021/10/16 10:39:35:576 INFO m.a: -- User Name: jschu
2021/10/16 10:39:35:576 INFO m.a: -- User Home: C:\Users\jschu
2021/10/16 10:39:35:576 INFO m.a: -- Cur dir: C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights
2021/10/16 10:39:35:577 INFO m.a: ---------------------------------------------
2021/10/16 10:39:35:702 INFO m.a: Failed to find proxy settings in Windows registry [error=ca.beq.util.win32.registry.RegistryException: Unrecognized registry field type number: 11]
2021/10/16 10:39:35:703 INFO m.a: ---------------- Proxy Info -----------------
2021/10/16 10:39:35:703 INFO m.a: -- Proxy Host: null
2021/10/16 10:39:35:703 INFO m.a: -- Proxy Port: null
2021/10/16 10:39:35:703 INFO m.a: ---------------------------------------------
2021/10/16 10:39:35:709 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows nt (unknown), osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[linux] native/liblwjgl64.so]
2021/10/16 10:39:35:709 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows nt (unknown), osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[linux] native/liblwjgl.so]
2021/10/16 10:39:35:710 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows nt (unknown), osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[linux] native/libjinput-linux.so]
2021/10/16 10:39:35:710 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows nt (unknown), osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[linux] native/libjinput-linux64.so]
2021/10/16 10:39:35:710 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows nt (unknown), osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[linux] native/libopenal64.so]
2021/10/16 10:39:35:710 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows nt (unknown), osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[linux] native/libopenal.so]
2021/10/16 10:39:35:710 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows nt (unknown), osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[linux] native/libkeybd.so]
2021/10/16 10:39:35:710 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows nt (unknown), osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[linux] native/libfroth.so]
2021/10/16 10:39:35:710 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=mac os x, osname=windows nt (unknown), osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[mac os x] native/liblwjgl.dylib]
2021/10/16 10:39:35:710 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=mac os x, osname=windows nt (unknown), osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[mac os x] native/libjinput-osx.jnilib]
2021/10/16 10:39:35:710 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=mac os x, osname=windows nt (unknown), osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[mac os x] native/openal.dylib]
2021/10/16 10:39:35:710 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=mac os x, osname=windows nt (unknown), osarch=x86, key=resource, value=[mac os x] native/libfroth.dylib]
2021/10/16 10:39:35:711 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=linux, osname=windows nt (unknown), osarch=x86, key=java_location, value=[linux] /spiral/client/java_linux.jar]
2021/10/16 10:39:35:711 INFO m.a: Skipping [quals=mac os x, osname=windows nt (unknown), osarch=x86, key=jvmarg, value=[mac os x] -Xdock:name="Spiral Knights"]
2021/10/16 10:39:35:745 INFO m.a: Able to lock for updates: true
2021/10/16 10:39:35:762 INFO m.a: Verifying application: http://gamemedia2.spiralknights.com/spiral/20201019172329/
2021/10/16 10:39:35:762 INFO m.a: Version: 20201019172329
2021/10/16 10:39:35:762 INFO m.a: Class: com.threerings.projectx.client.ProjectXApp
2021/10/16 10:39:35:763 INFO m.a: Dropping status 'm.validating'.
2021/10/16 10:39:35:776 INFO m.a: Unable to read version file: .\version.txt (The system cannot find the file specified)
2021/10/16 10:39:36:128 INFO m.a: Dropping status 'm.validating'.
2021/10/16 10:39:36:133 INFO m.a: Resources verified.
2021/10/16 10:39:36:133 INFO m.a: Dropping status 'm.launching'.
2021/10/16 10:39:36:134 INFO m.a: Didn't find any custom environment variables, not setting any.
2021/10/16 10:39:36:134 INFO m.a: Running .\java_vm\bin\java.exe
-classpath
C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights\.\code\config.jar;C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights\.\code\projectx-config.jar;C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights\.\code\projectx-pcode.jar;C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights\.\code\lwjgl.jar;C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights\.\code\lwjgl_util.jar;C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights\.\code\jinput.jar;C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights\.\code\jutils.jar;C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights\.\code\jshortcut.jar;C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights\.\code\commons-beanutils.jar;C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights\.\code\commons-digester.jar;C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights\.\code\commons-logging.jar
-Dcom.threerings.getdown=true
-Xmx256M
-XX:+AggressiveOpts
-XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=10
-Djava.library.path=C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights\./native
-Dorg.lwjgl.util.NoChecks=true
-Dsun.java2d.d3d=false
-Dappdir=C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights\.
-Dresource_dir=C:\Users\jschu\AppData\Roaming\Spiral Knights\./rsrc
-Xmx512M
com.threerings.projectx.client.ProjectXApp
2021/10/16 10:39:36:348 WARNING WindowsPreferences.: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(...) returned error code 5.

Superjo's picture
Superjo
Found fix

What worked for me was to download java 7 (jre7) and replace the java_vm folder in the SpiralKnights directory with the jre7 folder

Supercoolguy's picture
Supercoolguy
Is it possible you could tell

Is it possible you could tell me how to do that, please? lol

Parma-Tech-Support's picture
Parma-Tech-Support
java_vm patching

Please refer to this guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1847575647
Or check out Knight Launcher, both should work here.