Ok so first off, I bought the game from Kinguin, no piracy here. Also, Im running it on Windows 11. So I activated the key and installed the game on steam. Game looks like it launches, then I got error [2000] 0x000002e4. I found a thread on Microsoft's website, claiming that the GFWL client needs to be installed. Here is the link to that: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dhdwHuMnTA9_SDkosZN5DJN32yVJIfLl/view?usp=sharing I installed it with compatibility mode for Windows 7 btw and then tried launching...

I stumbled on SafeDiscShim in recent days and decided it to give it a go, well, with a fresh Steam install of Red River and no cracked executables it now successfully launches. SafeDiscShim basically loads up alongside SafeDisc games and intercepts the checks that would have been sent to the SafeDisc driver https://github.com/RibShark/SafeDiscShim...

I have done literally everything that other discussions have mentioned. - I ran the RedRiver and RedRiverLauncher.exe files as Admin and enabled compatibility mode for Win 7 - I downloaded the Bulletstorm .dll files and put them in the Red River folder - I deleted the patch1 folder - I downloaded that damn GFWL .zip file and installed the client and redist, and still nothing I honestly, truly do not know what I have to do to get this game to run. I'm at my wit's end....

1)download https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/576-xliveless/ 2) its a zip extract zip in direct folder (xlive and xlive.dll) drop direct to folder on game 3) start game

I didn't think I was going to get this game to run, but it did. So firstly I downloaded these 2 files and dropped them in \Steam\steamapps\common\Operation Flashpoint Red River Files - https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/576-bulletstorm-xlivedll/ Then in the same folder there's RedRiverLauncher.exe I run that under Windows 7 Compatability Mode and applied Administrator launch aswell....