Hi, i installed these games yesterday and couldn't play any of them.

Endless Legend: Opens in a window, plays the logo sounds with black screen, crashes to desktop after that.

Endless Space: Opens in full screen, stuck in a black screen with cursor.

Dungeon of the Endless: Opens in full screen, crashes to desktop after that.

I tried everything i could find here and other sites on the internet, also tried different .net framework and Visual C++ 2010 redistributable versions including the ones that came with the games.

Here are my output logs:

EL: output_log.txt

ES: output_log.txt

DoE: output_log.txt

I use i7, 16 GB RAM, Win 7 x64, GeForce GTX 680 and i don't have an on board graphics card.

All of the errors in the logs seem to start with:

ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Argument is out of range.
at System.DateTime.AddTicks (Int64 value) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 

at System.DateTime.Add (TimeSpan value) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 

at System.TimeZone.GetLocalTimeDiff (DateTime time, TimeSpan utc_offset) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 

at System.TimeZone.GetLocalTimeDiff (DateTime time) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 

at System.DateTime.get_Now () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 

at UnityEngine.GUI..cctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
Rethrow as TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for UnityEngine.GUI
at UnityEngine.GUIUtility.BeginGUI (Int32 skinMode, Int32 instanceID, Int32 useGUILayout) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 

(Filename:  Line: -1)

I tried to understand what it means but... nope... i couldn't...

Can someone help me?

Hi,

First time we se this error.

Are you in a specific timezone? What are your current date and time settings?

It seems to be related with the Unity Player itself, and a few people encountered the same issue with the Unity Editor:

https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/editor-blank-grey-screen-on-startup.440799/

https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/unity3d-5-3-not-working.372682/

We are investigating the issue.

Hi,

Can you check you timezone please, and maybe change it to make some tests & see if that allows the games to launch.

Either that, or maybe -temporarily- remove/reinstall the windows update KB3197868 that could also be responsible for the problem. 

Hi,

Thank you very much!!   

 I changed the time zone and everything is working!!! It was so simple and i didn't even think about doing that  

By the way, i changed the time zone back to my local time (UTC+03:00) and the games are still working. 

It may not be something on your side, our country decided not to use Daylight Saving Time this year and we all got into +03:00 from +02:00, and somehow my windows fixed this by itself a few days later, perhaps with an update but i don't know which one . Maybe this messed up something? I can't think of anything else.

Thank you very much again!! 

Nice to hear, you are welcome

Enjoy the games.