For those having General Failure Error

[Caiden]

Hey folks! I was having the General Failure error when trying to launch skirmishes or campaign missions. I fixed it by setting my graphics to the minimum, launching, saving, then raising them back up again.
That experimental shadow quality option was causing it for me. Just leave it at Enhanced. Still looks good.

Hope this helps. Sorry if it doesn't!

[Laitcaille]

Same error for HW1 Remastered

[Caiden]

Yup. Just put your graphics as low as you can before loading into a mission. Should fix it. It's worked for me and one other so far. Once in, turn them up to something reasonable. Careful with shadows and textures.

[Evro [EUcz]]

I can confirm. Shadows and battle scars for me. I can still play with 1080 and max textures. Though everything else is off. I miss the shadows, but not the HDR and all this light BS effects.

[Cpl. B. Grande [1st MRB]]

whatever i go to remastered homeworld 1 and/or 2/ or mods game crashed

[tengrilethos79]

Why should we buy a graphically reworked game, if we can use it only with the lowest graphics settings? I feel ripped off. :(

[PhoenixBorn]

Originally posted by tengrilethos79:

Why should we buy a graphically reworked game, if we can use it only with the lowest graphics settings? I feel ripped off. :(

Did you try what the OP is suggesting? This is just a suggested workaround that is being presented to fix a known issue.

[Migz - DH]

Huh. Old thread, so probably'll never learn, but I wonder what hardware these cats were using where the Shadows/Dual Lights and/or Battlescars cause problems.

[PhoenixBorn]

I didn't notice the dates until now. I'm not sure either. I haven't really seen this issue being caused by graphics settings. It could have been the type of hardware too. Has anyone needed to do this recently?

[tengrilethos79]

Originally posted by PhoenixBorn:

Originally posted by tengrilethos79:

Why should we buy a graphically reworked game, if we can use it only with the lowest graphics settings? I feel ripped off. :(

Did you try what the OP is suggesting? This is just a suggested workaround that is being presented to fix a known issue.

My comment was a fundamental question or statement about the remastered version. For Steam the remastered version was advertised with a comprehensive graphical improvement and THIS promise was not kept. I have not received a significant graphical improvement for 32 €. Both games I would also get cheaper. THAT'S WHY I feel ripped off. :( Please excuse my bad English. I'm not a native English speaker.

[Migz - DH]

@ tengrilethos79

You should probably just contact Gearbox for support to see if they can help you with your problem.

[airmikee99]

Originally posted by tengrilethos79:

Originally posted by PhoenixBorn:

Did you try what the OP is suggesting? This is just a suggested workaround that is being presented to fix a known issue.

My comment was a fundamental question or statement about the remastered version. For Steam the remastered version was advertised with a comprehensive graphical improvement and THIS promise was not kept. I have not received a significant graphical improvement for 32 €. Both games I would also get cheaper. THAT'S WHY I feel ripped off. :( Please excuse my bad English. I'm not a native English speaker.

Classic Homeworld was limited to 1600x900 resolution, that's the highest resolution on my disc installed version (I think the same limit is found in the Classic version included with the Remastered bundle.)

Remastered Homeworld has no resolution limit, AFAIK. I played it in both 1920x1080 and 2560x1440, both of which are significant graphical improvements, not to mention the touchup of the models and textures. You're free to think that it's not an improvement, but you'll probably never encounter anyone with any legal authority to do anything about it to agree with you.

[privettk]

Originally posted by Nick Ref the Blikkim:

whatever i go to remastered homeworld 1 and/or 2/ or mods game crashed

Uninstall and reinstall C++ 2012, that fixed mine earlier today

[d-vision]

Originally posted by privettk:

Originally posted by Nick Ref the Blikkim:

whatever i go to remastered homeworld 1 and/or 2/ or mods game crashed

Uninstall and reinstall C++ 2012, that fixed mine earlier today

I can confirm that the c++ 2012 was causing my general failure.
I just chose repair for the installation of 2012 c++ runtimes, both x86 and x64 then magically the game is working.

I haven't played it much before yesterday when I moved to a 4k display and the 1050 OC TI GTX from Nvidia, so I can't tell if the crash was related to the switch in resolution.

If you need to download the offline installers you can do it here: http://www.standaloneofflineinstallers.com/2015/12/Microsoft-Visual-C-Redistributable-2015-2013-2012-2010-2008-2005-32-bit-x86-64-bit-x64-Standalone-Offline-Installer-for-Windows.html

[Cpl. B. Grande [1st MRB]]

Originally posted by privettk:

Originally posted by Nick Ref the Blikkim:

whatever i go to remastered homeworld 1 and/or 2/ or mods game crashed

Uninstall and reinstall C++ 2012, that fixed mine earlier today

with due respect the only things i have are c++ 2008 and C++ 2015s