[FIX] Windows 10 «Unable to initialize»
Symptoms
Upon launching PathOfExile you receive a message box containing the string Unable to initialise followed by application termination.
Applies to
Windows 10
Cause
Cursory analysis suggests a compatibility issue with PathOfExile’s particular TTF font encoding.
Solution
— Download FixPoeFont
— Extract to directory containing PathOfExile.exe (likely: C:\Program Files (x86)\Grinding Gear Games\Path of Exile)
— Launch PathOfExile
Remarks
FixPoeFont substitutes PathOfExile’s custom fonts with system standard fonts; Verdana is default however can be configured via FixFont.txt
Also, this was in the file called FixPoEFont.txt
31-07-2015 17:03:37 | ————————————- FixPoeFont Loaded ————————————-
31-07-2015 17:03:37 | ERROR: Failed to hook AddFontMemResourceEx | (126) The specified module could not be found.
Nice work Emjayen. Is there a way to fix this without a 3rd party process injecting/replacing things?
Is there a font that needs to be installed, or something GGG should package/fix to make this just work normally?
Nice work Emjayen. Is there a way to fix this without a 3rd party process injecting/replacing things?
Is there a font that needs to be installed, or something GGG should package/fix to make this just work normally?
Unfortunately not as, regardless if the font is already installed, the game will continue to attempt to register it (and fail doing so). Thus, the only real way around it is to 1) Patch the game image 2) Replace the font (which is from the GGPK.
I’ve ofcourse opt’d to just patch it at runtime for obvious reasons.
The real issue appears to be with Win10; whatever TTF encoding GGG are using is being rejected even when attempting to manually install and I don’t have a dev. machine with Win10 at the moment to look into it further.
[FIX] Windows 10 «Unable to initialize»
Symptoms
Upon launching PathOfExile you receive a message box containing the string Unable to initialise followed by application termination.
Applies to
Windows 10
Cause
Cursory analysis suggests a compatibility issue with PathOfExile’s particular TTF font encoding.
Solution
— Download FixPoeFont
— Extract to directory containing PathOfExile.exe (likely: C:\Program Files (x86)\Grinding Gear Games\Path of Exile)
— Launch PathOfExile
Remarks
FixPoeFont substitutes PathOfExile’s custom fonts with system standard fonts; Verdana is default however can be configured via FixFont.txt
Also, this was in the file called FixPoEFont.txt
31-07-2015 17:03:37 | ————————————- FixPoeFont Loaded ————————————-
31-07-2015 17:03:37 | ERROR: Failed to hook AddFontMemResourceEx | (126) The specified module could not be found.
Nice work Emjayen. Is there a way to fix this without a 3rd party process injecting/replacing things?
Is there a font that needs to be installed, or something GGG should package/fix to make this just work normally?
Nice work Emjayen. Is there a way to fix this without a 3rd party process injecting/replacing things?
Is there a font that needs to be installed, or something GGG should package/fix to make this just work normally?
Unfortunately not as, regardless if the font is already installed, the game will continue to attempt to register it (and fail doing so). Thus, the only real way around it is to 1) Patch the game image 2) Replace the font (which is from the GGPK.
I’ve ofcourse opt’d to just patch it at runtime for obvious reasons.
The real issue appears to be with Win10; whatever TTF encoding GGG are using is being rejected even when attempting to manually install and I don’t have a dev. machine with Win10 at the moment to look into it further.
[Windows 10] Failed to initialise.
i have a similar problem but result’s the same. POE won’t start — old or fresh system install does not care.
POE nonsteam client
Win 10
Nvidia Gtx 960, Realtek Dolby Audio
All drivers/system up to date
Thj posted link here is dead for me, Admin does not work, fontmap i haven’t found, logs all empty
As example only: 2016/07/21 08:57:13 ***** LOG FILE OPENING *****
nothing else
Is there another solution or workaround?
I dont know if anybody will help this. i had today also an issue with failed to initialise. have windows 10 and access through steam. i point out what happenend today.
i fail started dark souls on steam and because i wanted to skip intro to close it. i closed it with task manager. after that, when i tried to open poe through steam i get the error failed to initialise.
i tried everything change language, changed firewall, updated windows and graphix and reinstalled the game. nothing helped.
then i started dark souls again and closed it properly. dont know the right word, i closed it through the ingame close game button. after that path exile just worked fine again.
i think maybe for people, which did not find help it could be a steam issue. that you did not close another game properly (through task manager or dissconect or just crash down). maybe if you dont know which game it was, a new installation of steam would help. but im not sure, in my case it helped to close the other game properly.
sorry for may bad english, but if anybody get help through this, im glad.
cya around hf and gl.
perfect! you made my day. same problem same solution!
Thanks ! It worked for me as well. I’ve been searching for a solution for several months now. I’ll post this in the thread I made as well.