Holy shit you are a genius it worked.

Update: I have verified that this is NOT a software issue (in regards to what you have installed on your PC.) This is an issue with Microvolts not supporting modern hardware. My proof is that I installed a fresh copy of Windows 10 x64 Pro (note in the post above I was using my usual Windows 11 Install). With an entirely fresh install of Windows, using a different version of Windows, the exact same issue arises. Looking through the Discord and making connections between the issues that people have, it appears this issue only plagues the 12 and 13 series of Intel CPU's + 7XXX series of AMD CPU's. It is HIGHLY likely this is caused by the game not supporting either DDR5 ram, or certain motherboard features that are mandatory with recent windows updates (fTPM) for example. I am now without a doubt certain that this is an issue the developers need to fix, this is not something the consumer, even highly technical ones, can solve. It appears that the developers refuse to acknowledge this is an issue so I am doubtful we will ever see a resolution for this.

https://gyazo.com/936b31739b630f2b80e752d5221942dd Link showing the problem

I made this thread in hopes of the community being able to work together to figure out why the game refuses to launch on Steam for a LOT of people. There are likely hundreds of users with this issue considering that we have about 2-3 dozen confirmed cases and most people don't make a post online when they run into an issue, they just quit. Here is my hardware and steps I've tried to reproduce through: RTX 3090 (Latest Drivers) i9-13900k (Latest Bios) 64 GB DDR5 (3600 MHz) Windows 11 Pro 64-bit (22H2 22621.2134) 3840x2160 144hz Monitor. Logitech Mouse & Keyboard with "G-Hub" software installed. Steps I have tried to resolve the issue with: Re-installed the game through Steam. Cleared the "Download Cache" of Steam and installing the game from a different regions download server (located in EU, also tried downloading from NA servers). Tried installing onto 4 separate drives between each re-installation attempt. Ran the "Verify Game Files" option on Steam. Closed most of background tasks and other applications. Restarted my PC several times. Manually re-installed all DirectX versions from 9.0 to 12.X Added the game as an exception to Windows Defender (my only anti-virus) Disabled Windows Defender entirely through Windows Registry. Updated GPU drivers and tried both Studio and Game-Ready drivers from nVidia. I have tried starting the game directly from Microvolts.exe rather than Steam as well. Same result. Disabled Bluetooth (to avoid potential Xigncode issues). Uninstalled other games using Xigncode. Made sure that none of the game files are blocked by Windows or read-only. I have tried every single option in the "Compatability" tab of the Microvolts.exe properties tab (individually one at a time). Just to test different hardware, my Macbook Pro 2022 using Bootcamp into Windows was able to download and run the game succesfully on Windows 10 Pro.