# can't launch vassal at all
**URL:** https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/cant-launch-vassal-at-all/9031
**Category:** Technical Support & Bugs
**Created:** [August 22, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/cant-launch-vassal-at-all/9031 "2017-08-22T03:16:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@jessicajung](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/jessicajung)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/cant-launch-vassal-at-all/9031/1 "2017-08-22T03:16:34Z")
i had vassal downloaded and one week it worked than the next it when i try to launch it it just loads for less then a second then stops and doesn’t launch.
vassal 3.2.15
windows 10
sorry i don’t have a lot of info
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### Author:  [@JoelCFC25](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/JoelCFC25)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/cant-launch-vassal-at-all/9031/2 "2017-08-22T16:45:08Z")
This is very often a case of having multiple versions of Java installed and/or the wrong version for your architecture. You want to have one and only one JVM, and if using a 32-bit OS it should be 32-bit Java, and 64-bit Java for a 64-bit OS.
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### Author:  [@uckelman](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/uckelman)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/cant-launch-vassal-at-all/9031/3 "2017-08-29T21:19:18Z")
Thus spake jessicajung:
> i had vassal downloaded and one week it worked than the next it when i
> try to launch it it just loads for less then a second then stops and
> doesn’t launch.
>
> vassal 3.2.15
>
> windows 10
>
> sorry i don’t have a lot of info
Please check the things listed here:
[vassalengine.org/wiki/VASSAL\_Does\_Not\_Start](http://www.vassalengine.org/wiki/VASSAL_Does_Not_Start)
–
J.