BeamNG .drive won't start / launcher won't appear / game crashes on start

[Sethioz]

BeamNG is always having issues cuz devs keep screwing with things they don't need to touch, but i recently had yet another issue, the launcher wouldn't even appear after i clicked PLAY in steam.
i tried directly from .exe and same thing. support was USELESS, they want some support ID which can only be gained from when game is already running, so their support is useless as always.

this time issue was quite simple, but it was hard to find. ONCE AGAIN i had to do their job for free and fix their mess.

Issue was that they reset "startup.ini" file, which has basically NO content!
since i'm not some brainless idiot who wants to kill his SSD with insane amount of data writes, i DO NOT keep games on primary drive!
i set CUSTOM UserPath in startup.ini, but since they screwed the file up with update, game no longer launched at all.
this is content of my startup.ini
as you can see i have added custom userpath, but it got removed after update, even tho it was READ ONLY file!

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; use UTF-8 without BOM as encoding

[filesystem]
; This determines where the User path is.
; This is by default or when empty below "%localappdata%\BeamNG"
UserPath = G:\Games\BimboNG_stupid-folder

; example for using e:\beamng-user
;UserPath = e:\beamng-user

; example for using a relative path to this folder
;UserPath = \user

; example for local path (same as -nouserpath)
;UserPath = .\

so if you're using custom path aswell, then most likely that's the issue. check the file and re-add your path if devs broke the game by removing it.

@ all of those faffing-faf-faffers who go like "fafafaf works for me fafafaf", those autistic retards use DEFAULT everything, they clog up their SSD with MASSIVE amounts of data for no reason, but as PC EXPERT, i only keep important programs and sensitive info on my primary SSD (it's where OS is installed), it's NO PLACE for games or some SUPER MASSIVE /cache/ and/or /temp/ data!

according to beamng devs, it's IMPOSSIBLE for game to read files from its folder (hmm i wonder how other game devs make it possible??) so as result beamng devs have made it that when you load a map, spawn a car or interact with anything, it will COPY those files from "game folder" into that "bimboNG_stupid-folder", which by default, is somewhere on your C:/ drive. this often includes 10-30gb of files!

on top of that, game doesn't clean it either, it leaves all that MASSIVE AMOUNT OF DATA just sitting there. i first discovered that when my SSD was running low on space, so i ran TreeSize to check WTF is taking up the space and found that BeamNG stupid folder was over 60gb!! this is when i first realized WTF beamng devs are doing! at that point i denied access to that folder and started using custom user path.

but by all means ... all of you FAFFING FAF FAFFERS can go FAF some more and clog up your entire drive with 100gb of shit and then FAF FAF some more "FAFAFAF YOU NEED TO FORMAT PC EVERY YEAR FAFAFAF" .. no wonder they're so retarded.