Steam Controller Causes Crash on Startup

[asoundbassist]

Hi all,

I've been playing this game for a long time, but after a brief stint away, I noticed it would crash consistently on startup. I looked around and couldn't find any answers, but after a little troubleshooting, it seems to be related to the Steam controller. When I fire up TLD while the controller is connected, the game crashes. However, if I disconnect the controller, start up the game, and then reconnect the Steam controller, the game runs just fine.

It's a small hurdle to jump, but definitely one worth pointing out. Below is the error log up to the stack trace. Please let me know what other information I can provide to help (e.g. info from output_log.txt).

error.txt

Unity Player [version]

gameoverlayrenderer.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)

in module gameoverlayrenderer.dll at 0023:6d1bb890.

Error occurred at 2016-02-23_082640.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld.exe, run by xxxxxxxxxxx.

40% memory in use.

0 MB physical memory [3577 MB free].

0 MB paging file [0 MB free].

0 MB user address space [3483 MB free].

Read from location 00000004 caused an access violation.

Context:

EDI: 0x000000ff ESI: 0x000000ff EAX: 0x00000000

EBX: 0x00000003 ECX: 0x003fec7f EDX: 0x00000001

EIP: 0x6d1bb890 EBP: 0x003fec64 SegCs: 0x00000023

EFlags: 0x00010246 ESP: 0x003fec64 SegSs: 0x0000002b

Bytes at CS:EIP:

8a 50 04 88 11 8b 00 5d c2 08 00 8b 45 0c 5e c6

[Support]

This is a known issue on Steam's side (we're not the only people suffering from it right now.) We've found that this impacts those on the Steam Beta client. The available workarounds are to either run the game without the controller, in big picture mode, or to use the standard Steam client (instead of the beta client.)