Well, it was fun while it lasted....

[lorddamien]

I've played the game on steam for over 100 hours without a crash but since the maintenance last night, the game always crashes within about 10-15 seconds of opening it. I typically don't even make it to the loading screen that happens before you see the title screen.

I've tried verifying, reinstalling, moving it to a different drive, all the compatibility options like run as admin or run as windows 7, 8 etc, even rebooting the computer, nothing changes....

And since I'm not seeing a flood of complaints about this, it's probably not happening to most people.... Still if anyone has a suggestion I'll try it.

[Ryuzen]

the game is updating new anti-cheat, try disable your antivirus for testing

[lorddamien]

Originally posted by Ryuzen:

the game is updating new anti-cheat, try disable your antivirus for testing

Thanks for the suggestion, but that didn't help. Even with windows defender disabled, it still crashes.

The only clue I have is after every crash, if I try validating the files, a single 8.5 mb file gets redownloaded but of course steam doesn't tell me which file....

edit: currently running a malware scan cuz I don't know what else to try at this point. It pisses me off because it worked fine before last night >.<

edit2: malware scans found nothing, back to square one...

[lorddamien]

I've identified the file that fails to validate when I verify integrity but I'm not sure how much help that is since I have no idea what to do with that info...

anyways it's a file called xmag_x64.xem in the game folder SAOIF\SAOIF_Data\StreamingAssets\{1B0E0030-4688-4F6C-BB09-347371793A08}

[lorddamien]

Update: I fixed it in the most convoluted way possible and I'll leave this here in case it helps anyone else.

What I did was install google play beta, then transfer my account there. I then tried starting the steam version and it said something about my account having been transferred and how it would start a fresh account. When I got to the title screen on steam I did the transfer again, this time from google play to steam and it worked. I can play again and all it cost me was all my gems (just about 2000 of them at the time of transfer).

[Ryuzen]

remember to use all of your gems before transfer, or you can save gems in mail (1 month mail will expire)
xmag_x64.xem is part of xigncode anti cheat

[lorddamien]

Originally posted by Ryuzen:

remember to use all of your gems before transfer, or you can save gems in mail (1 month mail will expire)
xmag_x64.xem is part of xigncode anti cheat

yea probly should've burned those gems on something, oh well. At least I can play again ^^