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Game's Not Starting

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TLDR; Game not launching or just crashing? Check that the hard drive it’s installed on isn’t read only.

Ran into an issue when trying to launch Marvel Rivals the game wouldn’t start. Clicking the launcher the icon would circle for a second, think, then just dissapear. No errors, no warnings just nothing.

Turns out the partition and hard drive that the game was installed on had somehow gone read-only which was responsible for the issue.

Fix was easy enough on Windows 11 and I presume Windows 10 and even earlier.

  1. Figure out the disk your game is installed on you can use the disk management utility to see this diskmgmt.msc from the start menu.
  2. Open command prompt or terminal in admin mode (windows key + x -> Terminal (Admin) )
  3. Launch disk partition diskpart
  4. If you don’t know your disk # from Step 1 you can enter LIST DISK to get all the current disks
  5. Enter SELECT DISK <DiskNumber>
  6. Remove read-only attribute ATTRIBUTES DISK CLEAR READONLY (on older versions of windows it maybe READ-ONLY)

In my case this was enough to fix the game and get it going.

Related Notes:

  • https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/usb-this-disk-is-write-protected/09c31158-ee9a-441a-8a2f-390932d29b1f