s&box not launching

I don't think I need much more here. I click play on s&box but nothing happens. No errors, no flickering window, nada. It appears as running in Steam for maybe 7 seconds before just silently crashing. I checked Task Manager and it opens up as a background process for a few seconds before going away.

Take a look here: It could be that the executable is not in the correct location. I know that's been a common problem recently.

Can't open editor? Read this. - Editor - s&box

I can open sbox-dev.exe, but when I click on a project, I get the error: Failed to initialize Vulkan (vkCreateInstance failed.) You may need to update your drivers or your system does not meet the minimum system requirements.

For more information see: https://sbox.game/dev


My PC does meet the SYS requirements (I have 8 GB VRAM on an RTX 3050, 64 GB DDR4 RAM, and an Intel i5-10600k CPU), I just can't launch the editor. My drivers are defiantly good (even if they aren't the newest, within the last month or so), so it shouldn't be that,

On top of all that, to launch s&box, I have to manually launch .exes, I cannot launch anything via Steam, and sbox.exe doesn't work, locking me out of the game browser component. I just saw this last night and got really excited for this and am already severely disappointed.

Yeah, ok... it just... magically started working? Idk. I didn't do anything but now everything seems to be working.