Hello SoT players
I've come to share my research on my own problem that i happened to have when i tried to boot up Sea of Thieves.
I have fixed this issue and have come to share my own experience and in case anyone goes trough something similar hopefully it helps them out.
I play on Steam.
Day 1
I launched my laptop like any other day and couple friends came up and we decided to play Sea of Thieves together to the explore the sea and the new updates that arrived, mainly the guild update.
We had a wonderful 6h session with no issues.
I closed the game and went on with my day.
Day 2
Sea of Thieves was untouched
Same goes for the following 5-6days
Day 8
I decide to launch Sea of Thieves and the game the game launches but shortly after it boots itself down and doesn't give any signal of launching just as if it launched and shut itself down shortly after. I payed no mind as I didn't planned to play much.
Day 9
Ignored the game for additional 4-5days
Day 16
Friends wanted to do a big session once again(6h session), so everyone gets on Sea of Thieves I try to boot up my SoT but to my surprise the same error that happened on "Day 8",
I went and started to see what could be the cause. I turned up my Task Manager to see the app process and what was happening to it.
This was the process record of the Task Manager:
SoTGame.exe - Starts and the computer starts allocating RAM into the process
SoTGame.exe - The process gains steady RAM but once it hits these peaks of (629mb | 840mb) of RAM
SoTGame.exe Suspended - It removes all RAM allocated and drops to 69.9mb of RAM allocated with the tag: Suspended
SoTGame.exe Suspended - After a short amount of time ~130sec the process shutdown
SoTGame.exe Removed
I started search as options how and why this was happening:
I went through all these websites and other youtube videos and other sites.
Here are the things i tried and NOTHING WORKED:
All Options with STEAM I tried:
-Steam on admin with compatibility mode;
-Steam Offline mode;
-Steam "Beta mode" (switched between on and off);
-Steam Download cache clear;
-Steam Library repair;
-Reinstalled Steam;
-Steam Download Region changed;
-Sea of Thieves verification of game files;
-Reinstall of Sea of Thieves;
-I ran Sea of Thieves on admin
Got error "app configuration unavailable" same with "game configuration unavailable"
Shutdown Steam, go to "...Steam/appcache" the file "appinfo.vdf" and reloading steam
All Options with Windows I tried:
-Powershell as admin
Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}
-Windows Updates;
-Windows Security | Virus & Threat Protection
Exceptions for Steam and Sea of Thieves;
-Disabling & uninstalling any anti virus i had, left with base Windows anti virus
-Updating Windows 10
-Repairing all Microsoft Visual C++ 200x-2022 and older versions (I had versions since 2005,2008,2010 which cannot be repaired but up to 2019-2022 could)
-Cmd as admin Flush DNS and restart pc;
All Options with Hardware I tried:
-Turning on Windows 10 Ultimate Performance mode
-Trying to reenable the suspended SoT process in Resource Monitor
-Defrag & Optimize the Harddrive where my Sea of Thieves is on
-Updating all possible Drives on my GPU and 2nd GPU
-Bios Update
I ran through so many I'm sorry if i forgot to mention some I doubt it tho.
This was the solution that allowed me to boot up my game from the self failure of "app configuration unavailable"
Steam
"Sea of Thieves"->"Properties..."->"Launch Options"
Type this:
-USEALLAVAILABLECORES -high -dx11
This was my solution to my problem of my SoT game never booting up and always failing to do so.
These are the base specs the game Sea of Thieves requires to run:
CPU
-Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500 CPU @ 2.70GHz
GPU
-Nvidia Geforce 920mx | 2GB Dedicated ram
RAM
-8GB
Installation Drive:
-Seagate ST1000LM035 1TB SATA Hard Drive | 5.4k RPM
Once again thank you for reading and I hope this helps some people that encounter similar issues.
God speed you beautiful Pirates.
