Homeworld 2 Crashing on start

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Whenever I try and play Homeworld 2 Classic it crashes. No error messages or anything. Does anybody know how to fix this? I really enjoy this game and has a lot of nostalgia with it and I want to play it once again.

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And both remastered editions crash. Only classic Homeworld 1 starts properly. Also no error message.

[wonkothsane]

Same is happening to me Did you get it working?

[cheeseburger apocalypse]

no, im going to give up soon

[wonkothsane]

I found it. Install the "Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4" from Microsoft's download site. Will need the 32 bit (x86) version for this to work. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/developer-tools.aspx

[Toenail]

I'm having the same issue, game appears incompatible with windows 11. I've tried a handful of fixes reported online to no avail. Running an AMD Ryzen processor, ASUS x570 motherboard, and Nvidia RTX graphics card and failing to get anything but homeworld 1 classic to launch

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Originally posted by wonkothsane:

I found it. Install the "Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4" from Microsoft's download site. Will need the 32 bit (x86) version for this to work. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/developer-tools.aspx

Thank you so much!! this worked i cannot express how happy i am thank you!!!

[Xeonzs]

Originally posted by wonkothsane:

I found it. Install the "Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4" from Microsoft's download site. Will need the 32 bit (x86) version for this to work. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/developer-tools.aspx

Sadly didn't work for me, already installed so I repaired, but same thing, you using any command lines?

[wonkothsane]

nothing other than the Visual C++ package mentioned. It did have to be that specific package though, 2012 Update 4.

[Nepharious]

I had to remove all versions of Microsoft Visual C++ 2005-2010 and leave just the two 2012 ones from above 86/64 and my backup software needed 2017 so 2015-2022 is also installed. I am not sure if 2013 causes the issue but I removed them also and can now load into games. I would suggest that with the new C++ install all scipts out there to update C++ Gearbox/Steam needs to update Homeworld to run with all versions installed.

Here is a crash log to show the issue from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Homeworld\HomeworldRM\bin\Release

HomeworldRM.exe caused a Microsoft C++ Exception in module KERNELBASE.dll at 0023:761efa72.
Error occurred at 4/28/2024 03:46:22.
HomeworldRM.exe, run by user.
Microsoft Windows XP?. (Win10)
32 processor(s), type 586.
2048 MBytes physical memory.

MiniDump saved to file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Homeworld\HomeworldRM\bin\Release\4-28-2024_03_46_22_MiniDump.dmp'

Registers:
EAX=0133bcf0 CS=0023 EIP=761efa72 EFLGS=00200216
EBX=19930520 SS=002b ESP=0133bcf0 EBP=0133bd48
ECX=00000003 DS=002b ESI=0133bdcc FS=0053
EDX=00000000 ES=002b EDI=00dcee4c GS=002b
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 4c 24 54 33 cc e8 2f 50 00 00 8b e5 5d c2 10

Call Stack:
0x761EFA72: RaiseException (C:\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll)
0x73E94906: CxxThrowException (C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\VCRUNTIME140.dll)
0x00C6E04A: SteamLobbyPlayerDesc::SteamLobbyPlayerDesc (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Homeworld\HomeworldRM\bin\Release\HomeworldRM.exe)
0x00C21C82: SteamLobbyPlayerDesc::SteamLobbyPlayerDesc (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Homeworld\HomeworldRM\bin\Release\HomeworldRM.exe)
0x00BE164A: SteamLobbyPlayerDesc::SteamLobbyPlayerDesc (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Homeworld\HomeworldRM\bin\Release\HomeworldRM.exe)

Stack dump:
0133be64: 301069b0 00be1501 27224f90 301b9580 27224f90 2e143170 2e143128 0133bdcc
0133be84: 00000000 0133bf1c 00ac0050 27224f90 301b9580 0133bf1c 27224f90 03ef96a8
0133bea4: 27225d20 0133c200 0133becb 0133bebc 27224f90 0133c218 03f31c84 00000000
0133bec4: 0133c224 00000000 0133c1f8 752e91cc 0133c218 03f31c84 752e91e0 006e0055
0133bee4: 00ccbbb8 00000000 61746100 6275533a 74737953 485c6d65 435f4e47 4f52505f
0133bf04: 54435544 5f4e4f49 48474946 5c524554 5f4e4748 52505f43 0133c054 00aca2e2
0133bf24: 301b9580 301b9580 0133bfb8 770162af 00000007 00000020 27224f90 013b0000
0133bf44: 00000024 00000020 27224f90 013b0000 27224f90 013b0000 00000018 01340920
0133bf64: 00000064 013b0000 00000018 01340920 2da1a720 2e142008 00000000 00000000
0133bf84: 01340000 00000002 0000000e 00000003 01340000 013401c4 00000000 0000000c
0133bfa4: 013446f4 00000000 013b0000 013446f0 00c6d1d5 0133bfdc 77015e0e 00000000
0133bfc4: 77015e0e 00000000 00000000 0000000c 16bd6fc0 0133c020 0133bff8 752e0166
0133bfe4: 27224f90 00000000