Windows Unable to Launch Stardew Valley

dumah

Newcomer
Hello,

So, I bought Stardew Valley yesterday for the first time and I played it for about an hour and a half without any issues. However, whenever I tried launching the game this morning, it just wouldn't start. Whenever I launched it through Steam, it would show the application starting up for a few seconds and then revert back to the "Play" button. The same behavior with the application not running would occur whenever I tried to open the .exe file directly.

When viewing the "StardewValley" folder under AppData, I noticed there was an "ErrorLogs" folder so I opened that and saw some files being created each time the game was run. I'll provide a screenshot of the error, but it seems to have something to do with my GPU.

Things I've tried:
  • Verifying game files on Steam
  • Re-installing Stardew Valley
  • Re-installing GPU drivers (already on the latest version)
  • Switching to the "compatibility" branch through Steam. This did work, but I'd like to avoid playing on that if possible.
  • Temporarily downgrading GPU driver version
  • Disabling integrated graphics
Relevant Computer Specs:
  • GPU: RTX 4080
  • CPU: i9-13900K
  • OS: Windows 11
If anyone has any ideas on what to do I'd really appreciate it! Error message being logged on startup below:

stardew-error-message.png
 
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