Empire at War will not Start (Solved)

[TheRealNiall]

I used to play this game for hours (hundreds actually). When the new patch went live I decided to try it out, but to my dismay the game will refuse to start. Every single time i try to launch the game this is what happens:
-I hit play (on the steam library)
-I click FOC, and play again.
-It says preparing to launch in a pop up window. The game says "running" in the Library section
-The pop up disappears
-The game will say synching in blue (in the library) and then go back to normal, as though the game was exited, or never launched in the first place. Other times it will just skip straight from "running" to "normal" (and skip the synching stage).
tl;dr game wont even start

Now, for the things I have tried.
-Running as Admin
-Restarting PC
-Verifing of Game cache
-Re-installing
-Completely removing/deleting all mentions of petroglyph and EAW, and then re-installing
-Turning off Steam Overlay, and Steam game file Synch.
-Updating Windows
-Updating Nvidia, Intel drivers

My system specs are overkill, and prior to this patch they were able to launch the game just fine. I have an "Asus ROG GL552VW," with the following specs:

Windows 10
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2592 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
16 GB of Ram
Intel HD Graphics 530
Nvidia GeForce GTX 960m

A couple of Side notes. I was able to "play" the game by launching one of the exe's direct from the local files, but I would not load mods, multiplayer etc. It also crashes very often.

Also, and perhaps more importantly, Sometimes when i try to install the game, it tells me I am "missing file privelleges." I find that usually this is due to an intel program called igfxem preventing access/modification to the local files.

Does anyone have any idea what I can do??

Edit!!! (Solution)
Ok, so thanks to steam user Duke Nukem (duke, if your reading this, i owe you a drink m8) there is a solution. I'll Copy and Paste his solution here since it was his idea:


"So I believe that i've found a solution. Go into your SteamApps < Star Wars Empire At War folder and open your "corruption" folder. The game launches the swfoc .exe and the one that works is named StarWarsG. Simply switch the names of the files and steam now launches the game properly. The same applies for the base game: Switch sweaw and StarWars G and it'll run. Let me know if this works for any of you."

[javitosam]

The same happens to me in normal EaW, but for some reason FoC loads fine.

[pardon?]

I have the exact same problem. I even made a post about it a couple weeks ago and nobody could seem to come up with a solution. What we discovered was that It wasn't launching the right .exe file and when we tried to launch it manually through the game folder, it just came up with errors saying MSVCR100.dll and MSVCP100.dll were missing. What you can try to do that worked for someone is; Search your C: drive for those two files and paste them into your game folder wherever you see a .exe for the game. I hope this works for you, sadly it didn't for me.

[TheRealNiall]

Originally posted by Duke Nukem:

I have the exact same problem. I even made a post about it a couple weeks ago and nobody could seem to come up with a solution. What we discovered was that It wasn't launching the right .exe file and when we tried to launch it manually through the game folder, it just came up with errors saying MSVCR100.dll and MSVCP100.dll were missing. What you can try to do that worked for someone is; Search your C: drive for those two files and paste them into your game folder wherever you see a .exe for the game. I hope this works for you, sadly it didn't for me.

Mine actually launches from the exe file. It just wont really work with mods/multiplayer if i do. It also feels like 200% more unstable

[TheRealNiall]

edit: It seems launching the exe only works like 1/100 of the time

[Fiach]

EaW wouldn't boot for me either but FoC would. Turns out I had to uninstall my GOG copy of EaW, it was conflicting with the steam version.

[Momo]

This is also a problem for me also. I was gifted this gameby a friend , I have the exact same laptop as op does. Has anyone come across a fix for this?

[TheRealNiall]

I FOUND A SOLUTION :D
I have now edited the original post with the solution in it :)

[Commissar Pimpslap]

Originally posted by |Enduit|TheRealNiall:

I FOUND A SOLUTION :D
I have now edited the original post with the solution in it :)

I did it, and it only worked slightly. the game launches and runs, however, the instant I select a mod the game crashes immediately, and when I boot it up again the mod isn't loaded. Do you have that same problem?

[DovakiinSpartan]

Removing exclusion for D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Star Wars Empire at War\corruption\swfoc.exe from windows firewall this was in my PGCrashCollector, could this be an error?

[TheRealNiall]

Originally posted by Commissar Pimpslap:

Originally posted by |Enduit|TheRealNiall:

I FOUND A SOLUTION :D
I have now edited the original post with the solution in it :)

I did it, and it only worked slightly. the game launches and runs, however, the instant I select a mod the game crashes immediately, and when I boot it up again the mod isn't loaded. Do you have that same problem?

I had that same problem, however the solution is far simpler. go into your game's properties (right click game in steam library, select properties) and then click "set launch options."
From there you will want to enter in the following line:
Modpath=..\..\..\workshop\content\32470\mod id
to find your mod id, you have to go into your steam folder, then your steam apps, then workshop, then content. Then I want you to go to the folder named "32470" (this is the folder where your empire at war mods should be located. If its not there, then search around in the content folder, it'll be there)
Alternatively enter this into the search bar:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\32470

Then, you just want to find which mod you want to use. Im currently using republic at war, so i would use the mod id "1129810972"

Anyway, take that mod id and then put that into the launch options as well. My launch options (for republic at war) looks like this:
Modpath=..\..\..\workshop\content\32470\1129810972

One final thing, do not try to change mods from within game. Just swap out mod id's. I find it helpful to create a little text doc with all the mod id's listed in it for easy access

[Cheyenne]

None of this ♥♥♥♥ works. This is not fixed in 2020. I tried all of this and it doesn't work.

[DJR]

None of the "solutions" listed help. Been subbed to this thread for two years seeing if anyone else has come up with a new solution, and it seems im just SOL here.

[joe?]

even in 2020 this worked for me :)

[GuSchi]

My Solution was to reduce the Screen Resolution of my main Monitor to 1920*1080. After starting the game i changet ingame to windowed mode and change my Screen to normal. Then it works.

[Lucky]

I have tried renaming the files and the game still wont start