Alright folks, buckle up. I tried firing up Superpowered 2 the other night, ready for some… ahem, “heroic adventures”, right? Pure disaster. Game launched kinda funny, got stuck on some splash screen nonsense, then boom – crash city. Desktop icon mocking me. Seriously annoying, especially after a long day.
First Moves: Poking the Bear (Usual Stuff)
My first thought? PC acting up? Maybe it just needed a fresh start. Slammed the restart button on my tower. Waited. Held my breath. Launched the game again… same damn crash. Okay, maybe not that simple.
Next up, the classic: update graphics drivers. Fired up GeForce Experience (I run an RTX card), clicked around like mad looking for updates. Found one? Installed it super quick, rebooted again. Clicked the game icon – splash screen limped along, then BAM, straight back to desktop. Felt like the game was personally trolling me. Super frustrating.
Digging Deeper: Reading the Tea Leaves (Error Messages)
This time, I actually paid attention when the game died. Saw a tiny error window flash real quick before it vanished. Something like “failed to initialize something-something”. Couldn’t catch it all, blinked too slow. Needed a way to actually see what was breaking.
Went digging online (super general search, not game-specific yet). Found suggestions to look at Windows Event Viewer. Weird tool, kinda scary honestly. Pulled it up, fumbled through the menus like a lost puppy:
- Under “Windows Logs” found “Application”.
- Scrolled through a ton of cryptic junk.
- Finally spotted entries with red “Error” icons timed exactly when the game crashed.
- Clicked one – mostly nonsense codes, but saw keywords like “DirectX”, “memory violation”, and the game’s exe name clear as day.
This told me it wasn’t just Windows being weird. The game itself was choking hard on something.
The Specific Fix: Hitting the Reset Button
More searching now, adding “crash” and “error” with the game’s name. Saw chatter on a couple forums buried deep. People talked about weird conflicts, especially if settings got messed up.
Several posts pointed to deleting config files. Sounded drastic, but hey, worth a shot. Found the likely folder deep in AppData:
- Went to File Explorer, typed
%appdata%in the address bar. Hit Enter. - Navigated backwards like one folder out of “Roaming”.
- Found a folder called “Local” (I think?) inside AppData.
- Looked for a folder named something obvious like the game title or the studio.
- Found it! Inside, saw files with “config”, “settings”, “save” type names.
Took a deep breath. Renamed that whole damn folder by right-clicking it and adding “_old” to the end. Essentially hid it from the game.
The Moment of Truth
Double clicked the game icon. Held my breath. Splash screen loaded smoother this time. Went past it! Actually hit the main menu! Grabbed my controller, mashed Start. Game loaded a save, no problem. Walked around, things looked good. No crash. Played for 10 mins, stable.
So yeah, seems the core files were fine. Something in my old config or save got corrupted, maybe after a Windows update or a bad shutdown. Deleting (well, hiding) that user-specific config folder forced the game to build fresh, clean settings. Problem solved!