Make a shortcut In my experience, the game seems to launch more frequently when you run it from the EXE, instead of Steam (most likely coincidental)

Make a shortcut to the game exe (the game is at: Steam/steamapps/common/killingfloor2/Binaries/Win64/KFGame.exe)

Put the shortcut wherever makes you happiest Modify shortcut Right click your shiny new shortcut and select Properties

Under the Shortcut tab, append -dx10 -windowed to the target (mine looks like: ...Steam\steamapps\common\killingfloor2\Binaries\Win64\KFGame.exe -dx10 -windowed)

On the Compatibility tab, set compatibility to Windows 7 and check "Run this program as an administrator"

The compatibility step above may or may not be neccessary, but my game seems to boot more frequently with them enabled Fix BIK Videos At this point your game is probably booting! Yay!

But it is also most likely crashing after the intro videos.

Disabling these videos using 1 of 2 methods should help getting you to the menu. Fix BIK Videos: Soft Fix Benefits: Less heavy handed fix than the alternative.

Disadvantages: If you've never gotten to the menu before, this may not work.

Method: Find and open (in notepad): <user documents>\My Games\KillingFloor2\KFGame\Config\KFEngine.ini

Find the setting: bForceNoMovies (should be under [FullScreenMovie], around line 856

Change the value of this setting from FALSE to TRUE

Save the file and attempt to launch your game.

Note: do not tinker with the StartupMovies entries. It seems to cause other problems. Fix BIK Videos: Hard Fix Benefits: Might work if the soft fix didn't.

Disadvantages: Might not solve the problem, a bit fiddly

Method: Navigate to folder: Steam/steamapps/common/killingfloor2/KFGame/Movies

You should see 8 .bik files in this folder.

Rename, move or remove the following files: LogoGA.bik, LogoTripwire.bik, LogoUE3.bik, MenuBG.bik

Boot your game using the shortcut we made earlier

If you successfully get to the menu using this method, it will prompt you to set brightness. Do so, then quit the game and reverse the steps we just did, and attempt to launch the game using the soft fix method.

If the soft fix doesn't work, feel free to remain on the hard fix, but you may encounter an uglier UI (especially the menu) and patches may try to re-download the files you renamed/moved/deleted, leading to bigger downloads. Your call.

Hello friends,Like most of you, as soon as I heard EA was coming out I was counting the seconds. Imagine my dismay when the game hasn't worked at all so far.I blame Windows 10 TP for this. I was having 2 major problems:1. Most of the time, the game doesn't properly launch (no KF2 splash screen, process idles at 0% CPU, 60-70Mb memory taken, never changes until you end task).2. When the game did boot, it would crash as soon as it got through the Tripwire/UE3/Georgia videos.I tried every single troubleshooting tip that has been posted on these forums, and none of them made a lick of a difference. However, I just did some tinkering and have now, for the very first time, been able to access the Killing Floor 2 menu!Here is what I did:Finally, if you launch your game using these fixes, it will be windowed. Don't despair. Hit alt+enter to make it go fullscreen and it'll be fine from there on. I haven't tried borderless/changing the windowed resolution in-game, but if it doesn't work there you could likely modifiy an INI to make it play along, but that's a story for another post.If this worked for you or you're having trouble following the steps, let me know.Enjoy!-Heff