I had rocksmith working just fine as recently as thursday and all of a sudden it won't open. in steam, it says its launching, nothing happens, and the play button comes back. I've uninstalled and reinstalled and the issue is still happening. anyone have this issue and know a fix or whats going on?

1 minute ago, Marcmunky said:

I had rocksmith working just fine as recently as thursday and all of a sudden it won't open. in steam, it says its launching, nothing happens, and the play button comes back. I've uninstalled and reinstalled and the issue is still happening. anyone have this issue and know a fix or whats going on?

Same here. Yesterday it was ok.

is ubisoft pulling some bull shit?

same here, I really hope that because of the + launch they do not shut down the 2014 servers...

Just now, dbolly said:

same here, I really hope that because of the + launch they do not shut down the 2014 servers...

why would shutting down the servers not make it load on my pc?

I cant open it either now, think this reddit thread has some ideas 

 

Try the beta branch, update said it could cause issues and breaks cdlc at the moment.
https://customsforge.com/index.php?/topic/67201-rs2014-mod-installer-thinks-my-game-is-pirated/#comment-371751

Hey, i have the same problem. I got an update for RS2014 on Steam when I tried to open it today and after that it won't launch. There were not change notes for that update.

However, once I removed the D3DX9_42.dll from the game's folder it opens correctly, but then custom songs wont play...

4 minutes ago, Yarders said:

I cant open it either now, think this reddit thread has some ideas 

that worked! christ, breaking things by trying to fix things. the ubisoft way.

New Update FIX.
Steam Library -> Rocksmith 2014 -> Properties -> Betas -> (Enter beta code) = justInCaseWeNeedIt
Select the beta = previous version.

Start game as usual, new update roles back, and game works as before....

"Ubisoft has given Rocksmith 2014 community a little backdoor, but how long ???"

Same thing happening to me.  Was playing it earlier though and it worked fine.

 

1 hour ago, Blondie said:

New Update FIX.
Steam Library -> Rocksmith 2014 -> Properties -> Betas -> (Enter beta code) = justInCaseWeNeedIt
Select the beta = previous version.

Start game as usual, new update roles back, and game works as before....

"Ubisoft has given Rocksmith 2014 community a little backdoor, but how long ???"

Just a note, that Beta code is case sensitive;  JustInCaseWeNeedIt

I thought something like this could happen, I told a friend and he called me paranoid.

Anyways, since the end of last year I've been backing up my game once per month and the CDLD's every time I add new ones.

Today after the patch (that broke my game) I just replaced the game with the backup and ran steam without internet, all working.

With internet, steam will tell me "rocksmith cloud is out of date" but I won't try to fix it, I changed to "only update when I launch it".

If you don't have a backup, go with the beta fix and backup for later, it is not the best solution but I guess they won't be able to touch my game anymore.

this sucks.

2 hours ago, JamesNicoll said:

 JustInCaseWeNeedIt Is not working for me.

 Try this. for me is working !

JustInCaseWeNeedIt

8 hours ago, Blondie said:

New Update FIX.
Steam Library -> Rocksmith 2014 -> Properties -> Betas -> (Enter beta code) = JustInCaseWeNeedIt
Select the beta = previous version.

Start game as usual, new update roles back, and game works as before....

"Ubisoft has given Rocksmith 2014 community a little backdoor, but how long ???"

This bit is critically important, you not only have to put in the code (corrected above, it's case sensitive), but you also have to then choose from the drop down "previous version".  That fixed me, my issue was after the update the game just didn't launch, press play it says launching and then boom the play button is back.

This probably should be added to the how-to or something for now, I imagine everyone is going to have this problem if they have CDLC.

5 hours ago, winchester0021 said:

 Try this. for me is working !

JustInCaseWeNeedIt

5 hours ago, Vigilantius said:

This one worked fine for me. Thank you.

 

6 hours ago, winchester0021 said:

 Try this. for me is working !

JustInCaseWeNeedIt

THANK YOU!!!!!! it freaking works!

.........and always remember we are the customers and if we have problems with items we paid for we always have the option to never spend a penny with the offending company again. Lets hope ubisoft are just ironing out a glitch. 

I got it working with the beta, but the CDLC just breaks it. Any suggestions?

I have uninstalled the game, deleted the files, re-installed, installed the CDLC files from backup.

4 hours ago, Avaruusgerbiili said:

I got it working with the beta, but the CDLC just breaks it. Any suggestions?

I have uninstalled the game, deleted the files, re-installed, installed the CDLC files from backup.

Did you copy the dll again?

15 minutes ago, Hiroshi said:

Did you copy the dll again?

Thanks, that was it.

In my frustration, I was not thinking clearly.

Thank you all for posting about this today, mine is working again after:

Switching to previous_version using JustInCaseWeNeedIt as betacode allowed me play all my CDLC again after the recent rocksmith update. 

 

 

The current version of RS2014 from steam would not launch via steam whilst the D3DX9_42.dll was present in the install folder.

 

17 hours ago, Marcmunky said:

is ubisoft pulling some bull shit?

I bet you because the new rocksmith released, they updated it so the .dll file doesn't work so we migrate to the new rocksmith and pay the bs membership. Im ok with doing that but they dont have the beatles amongst other bands in there, so Ill never fking pay, ever

I was having the same problem just now and tried a few different things. I got it working again by just deleting the D3DX9_42.dll file that you're supposed to install for CDLC. Starts without problems after that. I did not need to change versions or switch to a different Steam branch or anything like that. However, despite the appearance of shenanigans, the custom DLC songs I had installed still seem to work fine (still showing up in my song lists) and I was even able to add new songs still by copying them into the appropriate folder, so that suggests this is not an attempt to break modding.