I bought a loading screen?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[Bath_and_Toaster]

I got this game and every time I trie to play it it just loads and says map or something is intiatlized and wont run I think I bought the loading screen

[Lumix]

ikr!

[Supplican]

Check your Steam account - did you buy just EU3:Complete and Divine Wind? If so that's your problem, you need Heir to the Throne too, it's a pre-requisite for DW. Steam fail to enforce that requirement when you buy, for some reason.

[Bath_and_Toaster]

@supplican idk Because I bought complete not sure about Divine wind I will try to find out thanks :)

[Supplican]

If you bought ONLY Complete and NOT HttT or DW, or COMPLETE and HttT and DW, you are OK from that perspective and the problem is elsewhere.

If you bought ONLY Complete and DW and NOT HttT the problem is as I describe - you need to buy HttT.

[zhengtaifenbu]

i have the same problem. have you solved it now?

[OldBeansUnite]

It stops working for me after the loading screen too :(

[Lumix]

U need to buy eu3 Heir to the Thrones guys !Steam made a Mess by giving it to u for free by accident sad to say u need it to play at all

[OldBeansUnite]

I don't have DW. Just EU3 Complete. That doesn't work after the loading screen

[Supplican]

Please try installing:

First: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555

After that: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8328

Then: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35
(If that doesn't do anything then http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109 )

Then: visit the Windows Update site and allow it to apply all .NET updates/patches it wants to, for all .NET versions.

Then right-click on eu3.exe and eu3game.exe and set them to run as the Admin user.
And then check if you can run the game after that.

[The Big O]

Originally posted by supplican:

Please try installing:

First: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555

After that: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8328

Then: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35
(If that doesn't do anything then http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109 )

Then: visit the Windows Update site and allow it to apply all .NET updates/patches it wants to, for all .NET versions.

Then right-click on eu3.exe and eu3game.exe and set them to run as the Admin user.
And then check if you can run the game after that.

I mean, you say this method works 100% of the time. But I havent seen anyone who has said it worked.

[Supplican]

Originally posted by Maj Labia:

I mean, you say this method works 100% of the time. But I havent seen anyone who has said it worked.

Where have I said that? Inever have and never would. How could one short post possibly address every conceivable problem with a game and a PC?

However I promise you, it works very often, I would hardly bother otherwise, would I? I do support virtually every day, here and on the Paradox forums, and I'd know if it failed every time.

[The Big O]

You said it in another thread on steam.

[Supplican]

You said it in another thread on steam.

I may have said that if you get a "missing DLL" error referring to one of the DirectX 9.0c DLLs, that the above would fix it - and that is true. But I would never say that it fixes every EU3, EU4, and CK2 problem regardless of cause.

[Supplican]

Originally posted by Jimmy Savile, 1st Baron Savile:

Well, none of that worked, still stuck in that blasted loading screen. Nothing I found in similar threads worked either.

You don't seem to have posted in this thread before, so maybe you have a different problem.

Firstly, look at your Steam account - have you perhaps got EU3:Complete and Divine Wind, not Heir to the Throne? If so that's your rproblem as HttT is a necessary pre-requisite for DW, it won't work without it. Sadly Steam allow you to buy DW without checking that you already have HttT.

If that's not the case, what exact EU3 game(s) do you have? Just Complete, or it plus HttT+DW?

Does a Steam verify find anything to fix?

[OldBeansUnite]

I feel as if we this thread is going around in circles.

I used those links and each link has multiple files to download, so I don't know what I should be downloading.

Surely steam should include everything that is needed when you run the game to begin with.

I only have EU:Complete (no DW or HttT) - surely that should work by itself