"Please launch the game via the Steam client."

[Baumarius]

For some reason I'm getting this error whenever I try to open the game... but I am launching it from Steam. I do not intend to launch the game through anything else. Is there a workaround for this?

[JuKH]

Same problem. can't find a solution yet...
It looks like some protection from mods but I don't use any.
maybe I should ?

[Roland]

Originally posted by JuKH:

Same problem. can't find a solution yet...
It looks like some protection from mods but I don't use any.
maybe I should ?

Not sure where you got that info, as not only is this not a universal problem, but also the game is terribly easy to mod in fact.

If you haven't restarted since installing, I'd start there. I've had a lot of games on Steam not behave until I restarted my whole computer, even if most of the time it doesn't make sense.

If that still doesn't work the next thing I'd try is running Steam as Admin so it forces itself onto the game. I don't recommend always running Steam as Admin, but it's okay if it's absolutely needed. You would be masking an underlying conflict by using it in this case though so if Steam Admin mode does work I'd run a Take Ownership command (you can find a reg entry to add this to your right click menu on the interwebz. I can link you if you REALLY need it) on the folder the game is installed to and try again with Steam not in Admin mode.

If neither restarting nor Steam Admin mode work, then we have to discuss what you have running in the background

[JuKH]

Thank you for replying.

Originally posted by Roland:

Not sure where you got that info, as not only is this not a universal problem, but also the game is terribly easy to mod in fact.

I just assumed to be the case, because I've heard other people having the same issue while trying to mod the game (and lauching it through a 3rd party software).
it's probably completely different.

Originally posted by Roland:

If you haven't restarted since installing, I'd start there. I've had a lot of games on Steam not behave until I restarted my whole computer, even if most of the time it doesn't make sense.

First thing I did, but it didn't help.

Originally posted by Roland:

If that still doesn't work the next thing I'd try is running Steam as Admin so it forces itself onto the game. I don't recommend always running Steam as Admin, but it's okay if it's absolutely needed. You would be masking an underlying conflict by using it in this case though so if Steam Admin mode does work I'd run a Take Ownership command (you can find a reg entry to add this to your right click menu on the interwebz. I can link you if you REALLY need it) on the folder the game is installed to and try again with Steam not in Admin mode.

I'll try that, I'm skeptical, but I might get suprised.

Originally posted by Roland:

If neither restarting nor Steam Admin mode work, then we have to discuss what you have running in the background

I keep my background as clean as I can.
MSI Afturburner was the first to go when I couldn't run the game.
I still have the Nvidia helper, team viewer and Asus Ai suite for monitoring, but that's all...
I'll have a look in the services, just in case.

anyway, thank you for helping.

Ah, I also checked the .exe to not be run as admin (something found in another post) but that's not the culprit...

[Vector Zhou]

the same problem, hope the official supporters show up.

[JuKH]

Originally posted by VectorZhou:

the same problem, hope the official supporters show up.

I tried contacting official support, but I don't have answers yet ...

[Yukio]

After I go in offline mode in Steam and start the game the error was away
Ok is still working then in online mode.

[Vector Zhou]

Originally posted by Fujio:

After I go in offline mode in Steam and start the game the error was away
Ok is still working then in online mode.

Sadly, this makes no change to my case :(

[Vector Zhou]

Update: I reinstalled my system, from Win 10 to Win 11. Finally it works!

[Ixziga]

None of the above worked for me. What I discovered was that a Conan Exiles server I was running in the background was causing FF7 to think that I was not launching the game through steam. I have the server launch on computer start up, I guess the reason restarting my computer *sometimes* worked was that if I launched FF7 quickly enough on boot, it would start before the conan server and be ok. So I guess, make sure you aren't running any other steam processes in the background. It's frustrating as the server had never caused any issues before. Once I killed the conan server I was able to launch the game finally.

[Ainz Ooal Gown]

https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/
put steam_api64.dll into steamworks

[nextplayerup]

I run a dedicated server for Palworld. I could not launch FF7 Rebirth and play until I shut down the dedicated server. IMO this is an issue that Steam should look into and fix.