Game wont start

the launcher works fine but when i press start game nothing happens (i can see the psobb process in the task manager but it disappears after a few seconds)
 
Is the resolution valid for your GPU and monitor? What about trying something simple like 1024x768 Windowed mode?
What about changing the Direct3D API? If you're using Vulkan, try something else.
 
Ender said:
Is the resolution valid for your GPU and monitor? What about trying something simple like 1024x768 Windowed mode?
What about changing the Direct3D API? If you're using Vulkan, try something else.
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the resolution is way lower than my monitor's resolution and i tried using all direct3d api still the same thing
 
Open Event Viewer inside Windows, expand Windows Logs on the left, click on Application, wait for it to load the events, and then find the Error event for when PSOBB crashed. It'll look something like this
Code: 
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x004f840e
Faulting process id: 0x167E0
Faulting application start time: 0x1DBCB733CA5E621
Faulting application path: C:\EphineaPSO\psobb.exe
Faulting module path: C:\EphineaPSO\dinput8.dll

Post only the Exception code, Fault offset, and the final component of the Faulting module path (not the full path--just whatever is after the final backslash). In my case, it would be this:

Code: 
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x004f840e
dinput8.dll

Paste that info for a few of the crashes. Try with Direct3D8 first with Anti-aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering disabled. 1024x768 windowed mode first. Then try some of the other D3D APIs.
 
im sorry but i cant seem to find any log relating to psobb, all the events have have the level "information" and one didnt get added when i tried to start the game
 
Then it sounds like the game is either exiting intentionally or not even launching.

Check the log folder. Do you have a dllerror.log file? Anything in it?

If the game cannot be launched, the launcher should display a MessageBox. It's possible some error cases are being missed here.
 
[03-13-2026, 14:40:55] ERROR : The game has forcefully terminated itself. This can be caused by unauthorized game
memory or code modification, debugger attachments, or detected cheat programs running on your machine.

CODE: 00000004

[03-13-2026, 18:32:27] ERROR : The game has forcefully terminated itself. This can be caused by unauthorized game
memory or code modification, debugger attachments, or detected cheat programs running on your machine.

CODE: 00000004
heres what dll log says
 
Is that the only error code?

The only reason that happens is if a debugger is attached. Do you have something attaching to psobb.exe?
 
I don't think it's possible. The anti debugger check is simple and a standard method to check.

It should work even on older versions of Windows. Make sure you're not running the game in some strange compatibility settings, although I doubt that would matter.
 
Yeah I don't know. The check is pretty simple and would fail if and only if a debugger is attached. Maybe you have some other game overlay software that attaches? Or some type of virtual joystick software that injects into processes like vJoy?

I assume you're on WIndows 10 or 11, right? While the game originally supported Windows XP, the DLL no longer supports that. Running in compatibility mode is not recommended anymore.
 
I don't know. I know it could interfere with the addons before. I don't know if it can interfere with the game like this. Something is causing an anti-cheat check to fail, and that check is looking for a debugger. Something on your system appears to be attaching to psobb.exe somehow. I don't know what it could be.
 
Yeah sorry the trouble and thanks for your help! ill try figuring out whats causing it to fail and post here incase someone else has the same issue in the future!
 
Stellyyyy said:
i got it fixed, it was the driver for using the joycons with an emulator
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Well, that's pretty hecked up if it attaches to the process like this. Wouldn't be surprised if anticheat for other games think something is wrong because the technique for checking this is a pretty common and old method.
 
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