L.A. Noire Is Not Starting on Windows 10 [Fixed] — Auslogics Blog
Contents
- Reasons Behind L.A. Noire Not Launching on Windows 10
- Solution 1: Launch the Steam Client as an Administrator
- Here’s how to go about it:
- Solution 2: Unsubscribe from the Beta Program
- Solution 3: Verify the Game Files
- Solution 4: Deactivate the “Use Desktop Game Theater While SteamVR Is Active” Option
- Solution 5: Switch to DirectX 11 or 12
- Solution 6: Run the DXSETUP.exe File
- Solution 7: Update Your Graphics Drivers
Nothing is more frustrating than buying your favorite game, only for it to fail to launch. That’s what L.A. Noire fans have been struggling with for some time. L.A. Noire is an exciting detective action-adventure video game published by Rockstar Games. It involves a lot of chases and shootouts. It is available across multiple platforms, including PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows 10.
Undoubtedly, L. A. Noire is a great game, but players have been complaining that it fails to launch properly, thereby becoming unplayable. According to players, when you launch the game, the Options screen comes up, but when you click “Play”, nothing happens. Sometimes, you get an error message saying that DirectX was not properly configured or installed on your Windows PC.
Some users say that the “L.A. Noire not starting” issue began after upgrading to Windows 10.
Reasons Behind L.A. Noire Not Launching on Windows 10
So, why is L.A. Noire not launching on Windows 10? Well, the reasons may vary from one system to another. The following are possible reasons, and some may not apply to your case:
- The game may fail to launch if administrator rights were not granted.
- The game may fail to launch if you’re running DirectX 9. In such cases, upgrading to DirectX 11 or 12 might resolve the error.
- Gamers who subscribed to the Beta program are likely to deal with unstable patches.
To resolve this, you may have to cancel your participation. - The L.A. Noire game files didn’t install correctly.
Before we show you what to do if L.A. Noire doesn’t start, try these basic troubleshooting steps:
- Check that your internet connection is active. You might be getting the problem because of connection issues.
- If you’re using a VPN or proxy, you might run into the “L.A. Noire not starting” issue. Try switching off your VPN and check if this works.
- You must log in as an administrator for the game to run properly. If you’re logged in with a user account, we’ll show you how to run the game with admin rights.
If the game still fails to launch, try these solutions to fix L.A. Noire not launching on Windows 10.
Solution 1: Launch the Steam Client as an Administrator
The Steam client handles thousands of files from the countless games on the platform. This means that it needs elevated rights to work smoothly.
Running the Steam client as an administrator might resolve the “L.A. Noire not launching” problem on your Windows 10 PC.
Here’s how to go about it:
- Locate the Steam icon on your desktop or taskbar.
- Right-click on the icon and select “Properties”.
- Navigate to the “Compatibility” tab and click on the “Run this program as an administrator” checkbox to enable the option.
- Click Apply > OK to effect the changes.
- Alternatively, hit the Windows key on your keyboard, and type steaminto the search box.
- When you see the Steam client in the results, click on the “Run as administrator” option in the right pane.
- Once Steam launches, go to “Library” and run L.A. Noire.
This fix should work. If it doesn’t, try the next solution below.
Solution 2: Unsubscribe from the Beta Program
As we noted earlier, if you joined Steam’s Beta testing program, then you usually receive unstable updates that may cause the program to develop issues.
If you want to enjoy the L.A. Noire game, your best option is to opt out of the Beta program.
Here’s how:
- Find your Steam client and launch it with administrator rights.
- Go to Steam > Settings and select “Account”.
- Look for the “Beta participation” option and click on the “Change” button.
- On the next screen that pops up, select “NONE – opt out of all beta programs” and click “OK”.
- Once you save the changes, close the Steam client and launch it again.
- Now try running L.A. Noire to check if the issue has been resolved.
If not, try the other solutions below.
Solution 3: Verify the Game Files
The “L.A. Noire not starting” issue could be triggered by the corruption of game files, or some important files could be missing. To resolve this, you will need to verify the integrity of the game files in Steam.
To do so, follow the steps below:
- Launch the Steam client by double-clicking on its icon on your desktop.
- Click on the “Games” option from the navigation bar and select L.A. Noire.
- Right-click the game and open “Properties”.
- Now, choose the “Local Files” option and click on the “Verify Integrity of Game Files…” button.
- Wait for the process to complete and then restart your Windows 10 machine.
- Run L.A. Noire again to check if starts as expected.
Solution 4: Deactivate the “Use Desktop Game Theater While SteamVR Is Active” Option
According to several gamers, disabling SteamVR’s Desktop Game Theater resolved the “L.A. Noire not launching” problem. Try this fix to check if it works out for you:
- Open Steam from your desktop, taskbar, or Start menu and select “Library”.
- Locate L.A. Noire, right-click it, and select “Properties”.
- Make sure the “General” tab is selected and uncheck the “Use Desktop Game Theater while StreamVR is active” option.
- Click the “Close” button and relaunch L.A. Noire.
Does it start without issues? If not, try the next fix below.
Solution 5: Switch to DirectX 11 or 12
If you’re running the game on an older version of DirectX, you might not be able to play L.A. Noire. The trick is to update your DirectX to the latest version, which is either DirectX 11 or 12. Here’s the procedure:
- First, you should check the version of DirectX that’s currently running on your computer. To do so, press the Win + S shortcut, type dxdiagand press “Enter”. Look for the DirectX version at the bottom of the screen. If it’s the latest one – that is, DirectX 12 – then you can skip this process.
- If it isn’t, you will need to update it. To do so, visit Microsoft’s official website and download the DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer.
- Open the Downloads folder and locate the installer. Right-click on it and select “Run as administrator”.
- After the installation is complete, restart your PC and run L.A. Noire with admin rights to see if it starts successfully this time around.
Solution 6: Run the DXSETUP.exe File
If you’re getting the “L.A. Noire not starting” issue accompanied by a DirectX error, you might fix it by launching the DXSETUP.exe file, which is located within the game’s folder.
To try this fix, follow these steps:
- Launch your Steam client, click on the “Library” tab, and locate L.A. Noire.
- Next, right-click on it and open its “Properties” window.
- Navigate to the “Local Files” tab, and click on the “Browse Local Files…” option.
- Open the 3rd folder and double-click on the exefile.
- Follow the prompts to complete the installation.
The error preventing L.A. Noire from launching correctly should be eliminated. If it reoccurs, it’s time to check your drivers.
Solution 7: Update Your Graphics Drivers
If your graphics card drivers are outdated or corrupted, you’re likely to encounter numerous issues on your computer, including the “L.
A. Noire not launching” error. To make sure all your games run without glitches, it is advisable to keep your graphics drivers updated.
You can manually visit the website of your graphics card manufacturer, which is most likely Nvidia or AMD, and download the latest driver that’s compatible with your operating system. But, if you don’t know your way around computers, you risk installing the wrong driver version, and this could create more PC issues.
To simplify all this and save yourself the hassle of searching for the correct graphics driver version, you can opt for Auslogics Driver Updater. This program automatically updates not only your graphics drivers but also all the available device drivers on your computer. Driver Updater will scan your PC and find the latest driver versions to replace the outdated or corrupted driver software in your system.
The process is straightforward and doesn’t require much input from you. Once the scan is complete, all you have to do is click the “Update drivers” button to automatically install all available updates.
Alternatively, you can select the drivers you want to be updated. With Driver Updater, you don’t have to worry about compatibility issues since only the right drivers for your system will be installed.
We hope that you were able to fix the “L.A. Noire is not launching in Windows 10” issue. If you have additional information that you’d like to share with us, please don’t hesitate to drop your comments below.
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L.A. Noire: What It Could Mean On PC
So what should PC gamers expect from L.A. Noire? Well, for a start they should expect a strange hybrid of a point adventure game, a GTA-free roaming driving game with on-foot pursuits and shoot-outs, all hung on an arduous, sometimes perplexing interrogation game.
But what else? And what could be fixed? What should be fixed? And what about Red Dead Redemption?
There’s lots of things to think about.
L.A. Noire is a fascinating game in many ways. L.A. Noire is a flawed game in many ways. It is, of course, ideal fodder for the PC, as all Rockstar’s games are. They are, after all – with their living cities and hybridised action sequences — based on a legacy of PC gaming design ideals that has given the past two console generations the life and depth that have made them so popular. What’s remarkable about L.A. Noire, however, is that it seems to be roughly based on quite another PC genre: point-and-click adventures.
L.A. Noire is a procedural police drama set in the 1940s. The lead character, as in most of the recent Rockstar games, is a man with a past – a war hero who wants to see his police career unfold by the book. Needless to say, things don’t go entirely according to plan for the poor fella, and it’s down to your to plod him through an unsettling tale of criminal and emotional adventures in the Californian city.
Anyway, such context is beside the point, what’s important is that much of what you do in L.A. Noire is wander around crime scenes, waiting for the vibration of your gamepad. Quite how this will be articulated in the PC version, I’m not sure, but presumably it’ll need a new visual cue for the feedback-free mouse-keyboard population as they fail to vibrate over the evidence of bloodied bodies, discarded murder weapons, and irrelevant period beer bottles. The solution shouldn’t too difficult, of course, because these sequences are remarkably similar to point-and-click games of decades past where you are asked to search a pre-rendered scene for clues. Think Police Quest in super hi-fidelity graphics, and you’re (more than) half way there. The only real difference here is that you get to walk around a bit, and can go up to your crime-fighting chum to shrug in real-time 3D space.
So far, so re-imagined, but the bit which is challenging for most people is the interrogation.
This sees you sit down with a suspect and ask them questions. The issue with this is that you actually don’t ask them questions, at least not as you might in an RPG, but instead pick from an initial list and try to guess the logic of what follows. Your character asks something, and then you get to decide whether the response to it was a truth, or a lie, or whether it should be “doubted”. The distinction between what is a lie and what happens if you doubt the answer isn’t made clear, but it actually resides in what evidence you have. If something is a lie and you can prove so because of the clues you’ve previous collected, then your cross-examination is a success. If you pick the wrong clue, or they’re not lying at all, then you just seem incoherent.
Essentially what this means is that the game plays out near-perfectly if you get everything right. The cases make total sense, you get your man, and everything functions in a clockwork fashion. What the game struggles with is making your failure to pick up things cohere with what must happen for the case to resolve in one of a couple of predefined ways.
Hell, Phoenix Wright’s cross-examinations run more logically.
I don’t expect the PC version will be able to fix any of this stuff, but perhaps elements of it can be tweaked so that the weaker cases, and the few loopholes where you either know something and can’t get at it in an interrogation, or where you don’t know something, but it comes up in the game in anyway, are smoothed over.
There are some things that the PC pass can do, however. L.A. Noire on the 360 rather does show the limitations of the hardware. The city is bustling, but remarkably low-res, and lacking in too much detail. It’s also remarkably boring. I mean, I know a lot of people would say that’s an accurate portrayal of 1940s LA, but accurate isn’t want gets the juices of the imagination flowing. We want atmosphere, and for the large part that’s not really delivered. The tech is occasionally breath-taking (those faces!) and often lumpenly average (the bodies they’re attached to!)
The level of detail scaling that made GTA4 possible even seems somehow less artfully dealt with in L.
A. Noire, so perhaps a fresh pass on the graphics might spruce things up for PC. GTA4 was notoriously demanding on its PC specs, too, for various «technical» reasons, and, despite some work after release, it really only ever played brilliantly on high spec PCs. Hopefully the same won’t be true of L.A. Noire, but then PC specs are on the whole a little higher anyway, and this isn’t a game that makes enormous demands of pixel-shifting in the first place. If it doesn’t run okay on the average PC, then something’s definitely amiss at Cops ‘n Robbers HQ.
There’s also the Social Club stuff. While L.A. Noire seems less attuned to hijinks than GTA4, I suspect there’s still something in the whole movie sharing aspect of the game that could be tailored to this. Even more crucial to continued interested could be some – any! — official attention given to modding. A few bits and pieces turned up for GTA4, but as any number of people have mentioned, the scope for mods that L.A.Noire provides could be fascinating or even hilarious.
That said, you’d need a state of the art motion-capture studio on your mod team if you intended to get those interrogation and dialogue scenes into your total conversion. Any modding will be to the outfits, the sprawling city, and the vehicles.
So to a more serious and crucial question for many of us: does the appearance of L.A. Noire on PC give hope the Red Dead Redemption – arguably the best of Rockstar’s past few years’ output — might make it to PC? I think not. It seems to me that these decisions are made a long time in advance, on the requirements of particular company financials, and on the basis of which studios are free to work on a fairly significant porting and re-optimising project at any one time. I suspect that this, as a project, is actually an easier one to deal with in terms of porting than RDR would have been. Whatever the reality of that stuff, the real decider is money: L.A. Noire might simply be on PC because of financial need.
It’s a shame. Red Dead Redemption is the most PC-spirited game I have played on a console.
I’m amazed – genuinely amazed – and a little saddened that it has never found its way to our platform. Hopefully some benevolent spirit of game development will see to it that my judgements are wrong, but I don’t ever expect to see that game on my desktop.
Oh, and I suppose there’s no way to genuinely address that L.A. Noire essential misses out on many of the great Noir tropes of the past that its title appeals to (this is just a cop game set in the 1940s) but it could perhaps play with some lighting filters, throw in some Noirish shaders, just for the hell of it. As Comrade Cobbett points out, just enable a monochrome option does not a Noir experience make…
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nine0002 In June of this year, Rockstar promised to release a computer version of the detective thriller L.A. noire. Today, the developers officially announced that L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition will be released for PC on disc and digitally on Steam and OnLive on November 8 in the US and November 11 in Europe.
In addition to the original game, the L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition will feature a download code for all previously released console content: Nicholson Electroplating Arson case, Reefer Madness Vice case, The Consul’s Car Traffic case, The Naked City Vice case, and A Slip of the Tongue Traffic case. nine0003
L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition for PC will get higher resolution, new detail settings, support for keyboard and mouse, gamepads, and NVIDIA 3D Vision technology.
System Requirements:
- Operating System: Windows 7 / Windows Vista Service Pack 1 / Windows XP Service Pack 3 / OnLive for PC or Mac
- Processor: Intel Dual Core 2.
2GHz to Quad Core 3.2GHz / AMD Dual Core 2.4 Ghz to Quad Core 3.2Ghz - RAM: 2GB to 8GB
- Hard drive space: 16GB
- DVD Drive
Thank you *Romario*
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