I wanna speedrun Celeste, but when I try to reload the game without Everest by holding right on the title screen, the game just doesnt come back. Does anyone have a fix or a simple solution to launch the game without Everest? (playing on steam btw)

If you download Olympus (https://gamebanana.com/tools/6449) there should be separate options for launching in vanilla vs launching in everest, that may fix the issue

yeah it worked thanks alot

In addition, if you would like to create a separate desktop shortcut, you can add " --vanilla" to the end of the filepath to create a shortcut which launches directly into vanilla.