Can't start game, couldn't switch to monitor resolution

I just bought this game and after trying to launch it off Steam I get a pop up that says Couldn't switch to requested monitor resolution. "Switching to resolution 3x0 failed, trying lower one Switching to resolution 3x0 failed, trying lower one All resolution switches have failed Screen: could not switch resolution (1680x1050 fs=1 hz=0)" Any help? I've tried searching the inernet.

change your desktop resolution to something like 1600x900 and try again?

I got the game to start one time after changing my monitor resolution to 1600x900, however. There was just a black screen but I had sound. After restarting the game I cannot get it to work again, even on 1600x900

Okay, so I think I mighht have found the problem. The window is super small, and you can't actualyl see anything. It's jsut the task bar. I think it's 3x0 like it says in the error message. How can I change the resolution?

EDIT: I went into the registry editor and set the resolution to 1680x1050. It worked, and I got into the disclaimer page, however it crashes with the same error as the first time with the resolution error when I click.

Output log

Initialize engine version: 4.5.3p4 (80c2d1be1221)

GfxDevice: creating device client; threaded=1

Direct3D:

Version: Direct3D 9.0c [nvd3dum.dll 9.18.13.4475]

Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

Vendor: NVIDIA

VRAM: 3072 MB (via DXGI)

Caps: Shader=30 DepthRT=1 NativeDepth=1 NativeShadow=1 DF16=0 INTZ=1 RAWZ=0 NULL=1 RESZ=0 SlowINTZ=0

Begin MonoManager ReloadAssembly

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\UnityEngine.dll (this message is harmless)

Loading D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\UnityEngine.dll into Unity Child Domain

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Assembly-CSharp-firstpass.dll (this message is harmless)

Loading D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Assembly-CSharp-firstpass.dll into Unity Child Domain

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Assembly-CSharp.dll (this message is harmless)

Loading D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Assembly-CSharp.dll into Unity Child Domain

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Assembly-UnityScript-firstpass.dll (this message is harmless)

Loading D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Assembly-UnityScript-firstpass.dll into Unity Child Domain

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Assembly-UnityScript.dll (this message is harmless)

Loading D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Assembly-UnityScript.dll into Unity Child Domain

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\SampleClassLibrary.dll (this message is harmless)

Loading D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\SampleClassLibrary.dll into Unity Child Domain

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\SuperSplines.dll (this message is harmless)

Loading D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\SuperSplines.dll into Unity Child Domain

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Pathfinding.ClipperLib.dll (this message is harmless)

Loading D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Pathfinding.ClipperLib.dll into Unity Child Domain

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Ionic.Zip.Reduced.dll (this message is harmless)

Loading D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Ionic.Zip.Reduced.dll into Unity Child Domain

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Pathfinding.Ionic.Zip.Reduced.dll (this message is harmless)

Loading D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Pathfinding.Ionic.Zip.Reduced.dll into Unity Child Domain

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Pathfinding.JsonFx.dll (this message is harmless)

Loading D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Pathfinding.JsonFx.dll into Unity Child Domain

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Pathfinding.Poly2Tri.dll (this message is harmless)

Loading D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Pathfinding.Poly2Tri.dll into Unity Child Domain

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\DecalSystem.Runtime.dll (this message is harmless)

Loading D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\DecalSystem.Runtime.dll into Unity Child Domain

- Completed reload, in 0.059 seconds

Initializing input.

Input initialized.

desktop: 1680x1050 59Hz; virtual: 1680x1050 at 0,0

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\System.Core.dll (this message is harmless)

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\System.dll (this message is harmless)

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\UnityScript.Lang.dll (this message is harmless)

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\Boo.Lang.dll (this message is harmless)

The tree TRN_PineTree_GroupJ_Prefab couldn't be instanced because the prefab contains no valid mesh renderer

(Filename: Line: 53)

UnloadTime: 2.727461 ms

Successfully initialized Steam!

(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d63dfc6385190b60/artifacts/StandalonePlayerGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 49)

Platform assembly: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld_Data\Managed\System.Xml.dll (this message is harmless)

Unloading 7 Unused Serialized files (Serialized files now loaded: 0 / Dirty serialized files: 0)

Unloading 6444 unused Assets to reduce memory usage. Loaded Objects now: 11725.

Total: 18.389841 ms (FindLiveObjects: 0.722277 ms CreateObjectMapping: 0.181210 ms MarkObjects: 14.010956 ms DeleteObjects: 2.992061 ms)

args 0: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld.exe

(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d63dfc6385190b60/artifacts/StandalonePlayerGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 49)

args 0: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld.exe

(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d63dfc6385190b60/artifacts/StandalonePlayerGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 49)

args 0: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld.exe

(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d63dfc6385190b60/artifacts/StandalonePlayerGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 49)

GAME VERSION: Sandbox Alpha v.183

(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d63dfc6385190b60/artifacts/StandalonePlayerGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 49)

D3D device reset failed [E_INVALIDARG]

(Filename: Line: 357)

Switching to resolution 3x0 failed, trying lower one

All resolution switches have failed

Screen: could not switch resolution (3x0 fs=0 hz=0)

Crash!!!

Crash in winutils::ProcessInternalCrash(PEXCEPTION_POINTERS pExInfo)SymInit: Symbol-SearchPath: '.;D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark;D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\system32;SRV*C:\websymbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols;', symOptions: 530, UserName: 'Duncan'

OS-Version: 6.2.9200 () 0x100-0x1

D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld.exe:tld.exe (00F70000), size: 12214272 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\TheLongDark\tld.exe', fileVersion: 4.5.3.30613

C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll:ntdll.dll (77730000), size: 1404928 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll', fileVersion: 6.2.9200.16420

C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\KERNEL32.DLL:KERNEL32.DLL (76150000), size: 1245184 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\KERNEL32.DLL', fileVersion: 6.2.9200.16384

C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\KERNELBASE.dll:KERNELBASE.dll (765C0000), size: 679936 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\KERNELBASE.dll', fileVersion: 6.2.9200.16451

C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\HID.DLL:HID.DLL (74820000), size: 40960 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\HID.DLL', fileVersion: 6.2.9200.16384

C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\WS2_32.dll:WS2_32.dll (771F0000), size: 327680 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\WS2_32.dll', fileVersion: 6.2.9200.16384

C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\USER32.dll:USER32.dll (76990000), size: 1138688 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\USER32.dll', fileVersion: 6.2.9200.16420

C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\VERSION.dll

Definitely make sure that your graphics card is completely up to date. This seems like its and EDID issue where the hardware is telling the game it wants to be in a goofy resolution. After graphics card is up to date try re-installing the game.

Do you have a multiple monitor setup?

What is the native resolution of the monitor you are trying to play on?

If you haven't tried it already, try to shutdown/restart your computer. I did a search on the error:

Switching to resolution 3x0 failed, trying lower one

and it has shown up for other Unity-based games. I read in a couple of cases that simply rebooting fixed the issue.