Shadow of War stuck at "Press Spacebar to Continue" screen

NATCAB · Aug 14, 2019

Hello

When SoW got into Gamepass PC and I downloaded it crashed always at the start and the solution for me was to enable Default User and then it even launched if I put into small window and when it loaded in, changed into fullscreen, but recently I cant get through
the "Press Spacebar to Continue" screen. I got about 12 hours in the game and everything always ran smoothly, no lags or anything. Now it isn't respond to anything, if I press A on the controller it changes into it's layout aaand nothing. What should I do?
Sorry for my bad composition though.

***Moved from Gaming on Windows 10***

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XBF Leo G

Hello NATCAB,

Thank you for posting on the Xbox forums. We understand that Middle-earth: Shadow of War is freezing at a certain point in the game. We have

a support article on our website that contains solutions for this type of issue. We recommend trying out some of the solutions in this article, and be sure to let us know the results!

XBF Brad A

Hi Nat,

Thanks for letting us know you ere able to get the game working correctly.
I will go ahead and lock this thread as it has been resolved. Please feel free to come back to the forums if you have any other issues, questions, or just want to create a discussion to talk to fellow gamers.

Thanks,

Brad

NATCAB

Thank you for the reply but the game didn't freeze, just didn't recognized that I'm pushing the buttons. I found a solution, there was a Monect HID device on my PC and it started acting like a controller somehow. That was the issue. i deleted it now everything
works

John P_14

Hi and thanks for reaching out. I hope you’re doing well. I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft user like you and I'll be happy to help you.

I understand you need assistance with COD MW2. If you're playing it online, please make sure that you have an active Xbox Live Gold or Game Pass Ultimate but if it still doesn't work, try playing it on a single-player campaign by following the steps below;

- Back out when it is saying " connecting to data centers" bull shit. Then click go offline and proceed to enter a local multiplayer lobby. Then back out of that in the main COD menu and hit the select button, this should work.

captainfalling

I never leave my devices plugged in if I am not using them anyway so that shouldn't be the issue, I have since tried restarting with nothing else plugged in and just leaving the game open for a little bit to see if it was just detecting things slowly.

In all cases the issue is still persisting and I am unable to even reach the main menu still.

Shadow of War stuck at "Press Spacebar to Continue" screen