Issues with Planetside 2

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**Overlord Thraka**

A while back I played a good deal of Planetside 2 solo. It was fun, and I liked the whole 'war-sim' aspect of it.

Recently I tried getting back into it but when I try to launch it on steam the little 'Launching Planetside 2' window pops up and then vanishes like when launching a steam game normally, but instead of the PS2 patcher opening I see the outline of the patcher appear for a split second, then vanish. I've tried re-installing and everything but I've no idea what's going on.

Does anyone else have this problem or a simple solution to it? I've googled about but can't find anything. Help please!

**Psienesis**

I don't play PS2, but I have heard that it does not like Steam at all, and it's a common issue. I found this post on the Daybreak Games forums that seems to have helped some people:

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/ps2/index.php?threads/planetside-2-wont-start-help.192895/ wrote:“First start planetside but DON'T press play
Next Go to your c drive and get into the directory USER, my SOE is installed under Public. Get into the SOE directory where you can see launchpad, planetside2, planetside2_x64 and planetside2_x86.
Rename planetside2_x64 to planetside2_x64xx
then rename planetside2_x86 to planetside2_x64.
Then go back and press play.

Your game will run in 32 bit. I also have to do this every time I play because the 64 bit gives me an error. A total pain that SOE has had so many complaints and still has not fixed the problems with the 64 bit version.”

Note: The file location will vary depending on where you installed the game.

This is the thread I found the above fix in: https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2...run-the-game-again.184264/page-5#post-2787913”

**Overlord Thraka**

Okay, I'll try that tonight. Thanks for the reply!

**Skinnereal**

Or, skip Steam entirely, and find the .Exe file it runs from.
I don't use it through Steam, so cannot help directly, but the SOE launcher.exe got me back into the game after rebuilding my PC as Windows 10 the other day.

**Overlord Thraka**

So my problem is that the launcher won't even pop up.

I tried launching through every application I could find in my program files and nuthin. :/

**Skinnereal**

It sounds like it's not the app, but the settings, then.
Check in the Documents folders, and rename/delete/move any Planetside folder you find.
Either that, or right-click the .exes and Run As Administrator.