Vortex tired to access "\\?" but it doesn't exist.

[SethWolf97]

I recently had to reset my PC and I decided to change the drive that my copy of Witcher 3 is now on. When I try to activate Witcher 3 I get this error with the code ENOENT and the path being \\?.

[Tannin42]

What is the full error message you're getting?

ENOENT means that it didn't find anything at the given path. "\\?" is just an unusual way of expressing an empty path (as in: \\?\c:\foobar is the same as "c:\foobar" as far as windows is concerned).

 

But we still don't know which path in which operation is empty.

Can you go to the games tab, find Witcher 3 and click "Manually Set Location"? There set the correct game location and see if that fixes it

[SethWolf97]

What is the full error message you're getting?

ENOENT means that it didn't find anything at the given path. "\\?" is just an unusual way of expressing an empty path (as in: \\?\c:\foobar is the same as "c:\foobar" as far as windows is concerned).

 

But we still don't know which path in which operation is empty.

Can you go to the games tab, find Witcher 3 and click "Manually Set Location"? There set the correct game location and see if that fixes it

Here's the full detail.

ENOENT: no such file or directory, mkdir '\\?'

Error

at Object.ensureDirWritableAsync (C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\resources\app.asar\renderer.js:221:77)

at ensurePath (C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\resources\app.asar.unpacked\bundledPlugins\game-witcher3\index.js:505:8)

at prepareForModding (C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\resources\app.asar.unpacked\bundledPlugins\game-witcher3\index.js:513:5)

at Object.setup (C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\resources\app.asar.unpacked\bundledPlugins\game-witcher3\index.js:1106:27)

at C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\resources\app.asar\renderer.js:5552:55

at tryCatcher (C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\resources\app.asar\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\util.js:16:23)

at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\resources\app.asar\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:547:31)

at Promise._settlePromise (C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\resources\app.asar\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:604:18)

at Promise._settlePromise0 (C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\resources\app.asar\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:649:10)

at Promise._settlePromises (C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\resources\app.asar\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:729:18)

at _drainQueueStep (C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\resources\app.asar\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:93:12)

at _drainQueue (C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\resources\app.asar\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:86:9)

at Async._drainQueues (C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\resources\app.asar\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:102:5)

at Async.drainQueues (C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\resources\app.asar\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:15:14)

[Tannin42]

Have you tried what I suggested, manually setting the location of Witcher 3?

[SethWolf97]

Yea, and I'm still getting the same error. I even did a fresh install of Vortex.

[Tannin42]

So the problem appears to be that the location Vortex has stored for the Witcher 3 Script Merger is corrupted.

You can reset that without losing any other settings, but you'll have to use the command prompt and be careful you follow the instructions exactly.

 

First, close Vortex if it's running.

Then, open a command prompt and copy these two commands:

cd C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex
Vortex --del settings.gameMode.discovered.witcher3.tools

After a moment you should see a couple of messages looking like this:

removing settings.gameMode.discovered.witcher3.tools.W3ScriptMerger.id

Now restart Vortex and you should be good.

 

 

If you want to fully reset Vortex, reinstalling Vortex isn't enough, you'd have to delete the application state which is stored in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Vortex but I'd really only suggest that as a last resort - or if you haven't set up any mods yet anyway

[SethWolf97]

The command prompt worked. Thanks!

[Tannin42]

You're welcome, glad this solved it!

[Creamcheese365]

Do you have a code like this for Skyrim Special Edition?

[Pickysaurus]

Do you have a code like this for Skyrim Special Edition?

 

Considering you hijacked someone else's thread and haven't explained your issue the command line will probably not fix your issue.

 

However, it would be as simple as substituting "witcher3" for "skyrimse" in the path.

 

If you're having further issues, please create a new thread detailing the problem.