How to fix Beyond a Steel Sky not launching issue on PC

Talal Rafi

4 years ago

Beyond is a Steel Sky is a cyberpunk sci-fi adventure game developed and published by Revolution Software. The game is developed in Unreal Engine 4. It was first released for Apple Arcade on 26 June 2020 and the Steam version was released on 16 July 2020. The game received positive reception on release and there aren’t many issues and crashes faced by the players. There are, however, some issues here and there like unable to launch. Beyond a Steel Sky not launching issues can be resolved with a few workarounds.

The workaround is very straight forward and you will resolve the issue in no time. You will have to copy and paste a system.dll file which is the cause of the issue. If when launched from Steam, you get the Missing Xinput1_4.dll prompt, you will have to copy the system file into the game’s directory.

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1 Fix Beyond a Steel Sky not launching issue

1.1 Minimum

1.2 Recommended

1.3 The Fix

2 Beyond a Steel Sky on Steam

Fix Beyond a Steel Sky not launching issue

Before getting to the fix itself, make sure your system requirements meets the minimum or recommended requirements. Sometime the game doesn’t launch if the CPU or the GPU is too weak to run the game. Here are the official system requirements for Beyond a Steel Sky:

Minimum

OS: Windows 7 or above
Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 (3.1GHz) or AMD Phenom X4 945 (3.0GHz)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 2GB or AMD Radeon HD 7770 2GB
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 20 GB available space

The Fix

Here’s what you need to do:

Open This Computer from your desktop
Open the drive where Windows is installed, usually, it is Local Disc C
Find and open the System32 folder.
Locate the Xinput1_3.dll file and copy it.
Paste the Xinput1_3.dll file to the desktop.
Rename the file to Xinput1_4.dll.
Locate the Beyond a Steel Sky folder and copy-paste the file. The game could be located in:
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common

And you should be good to go. Let us know in the comments if the fix resolved the issue for you or not.

Beyond a Steel Sky on Steam

Beyond a Steel Sky is available on Steam and Apple Arcade. Have you played Beyond a Steel Sky and what were your initial thoughts? Let us know down in the comments section.