zachypoobear Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 As the title says, I'm getting a "Startup failed" error when trying to launch vortex. The error message says Vortex seems to be running and to check task manager. Obviously, I checked task manager and there are no processes from Vortex running, so there is nothing for me to close out. Restarting my computer, uninstalling reinstalling Vortex, and running Vortex as admin all don't solve the issue. Any idea as to what could be causing this, and how to fix it? Fortunately, I had already modded my target game, but would like to be able to update mods in the future through Vortex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deleted34304850 Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 you shouldn't run vortex as admin - or any program for that matter. i'd bet dollars to donuts thats your root cause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickysaurus Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 Try restarting your PC. That usually clears anything like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachypoobear Posted June 30, 2022 Author Share Posted June 30, 2022 you shouldn't run vortex as admin - or any program for that matter. i'd bet dollars to donuts thats your root cause.I normally don't ever run programs as admin, just trying it as a troubleshooting step. and no, this is not the cause as the issue persists while not running in admin. As a side note, not sure what your opposition to running a program as admin is. All it does really is ignore any permissions to run. It's a pretty common troubleshooting step for a program not running correctly as Windows can be weird about permissions at times. Try restarting your PC. That usually clears anything like thisAs I stated in my post, I did try restarting my PC, several times I might add, and no luck. I appreciate both of your feedback, but unfortunately neither suggestions work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deleted34304850 Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 you shouldn't run vortex as admin - or any program for that matter. i'd bet dollars to donuts thats your root cause.I normally don't ever run programs as admin, just trying it as a troubleshooting step. and no, this is not the cause as the issue persists while not running in admin. As a side note, not sure what your opposition to running a program as admin is. All it does really is ignore any permissions to run. It's a pretty common troubleshooting step for a program not running correctly as Windows can be weird about permissions at times. that's empiracally false. windows is fine with permissions, its users who are weird about how they work.if you run a program as admin - it gets allsorts of lovely permission to do allsorts of lovely things such as compromise your data. that's my opposition (and everyone else's who understands how this stuff works), opposition. and it is never, not ever, considered to be a "troubleshooting" step.but what do i know, i only do this for a living............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachypoobear Posted July 1, 2022 Author Share Posted July 1, 2022 you shouldn't run vortex as admin - or any program for that matter. i'd bet dollars to donuts thats your root cause.I normally don't ever run programs as admin, just trying it as a troubleshooting step. and no, this is not the cause as the issue persists while not running in admin. As a side note, not sure what your opposition to running a program as admin is. All it does really is ignore any permissions to run. It's a pretty common troubleshooting step for a program not running correctly as Windows can be weird about permissions at times. that's empiracally false. windows is fine with permissions, its users who are weird about how they work.if you run a program as admin - it gets allsorts of lovely permission to do allsorts of lovely things such as compromise your data. that's my opposition (and everyone else's who understands how this stuff works), opposition. and it is never, not ever, considered to be a "troubleshooting" step.but what do i know, i only do this for a living............ While I'm not sure I would be worried about Vortex compromising my data (although nowadays, who can be too sure about anything), I do see your point. Regardless, I had never run Vortex as admin before the one time I did after I got this error mentioned. Hence why running as admin could not possibly be the cause for this error as running normally causes the error as well. It's a very strange issue as I can't understand why Vortex would think it's already running when it clearly isn't, at least from what I can tell anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nulliusssss Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 Was this issue never fixed, because I am having it as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickysaurus Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 Was this issue never fixed, because I am having it as well There's nothing to fix as this is a problem on the user's end. Closing Vortex in Task Manager or just restarting the PC should clear this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatPerito Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 If anyone still needs a fix for this, uninstall vortex -> delete every file in the installation folder and appdata/roamind/vortex.Install it and done, but don't use admin mode as I did (the only app I ever had issues for using on admin mode btw) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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