Forces of Corruption Crashes

[Drewboug]

Hey guys not sure whats going on. I can load the normal game, but when I try to load forces of corruption it kicks me out of the window during the loading screen. I tried reinstalling and removing all mods, run in admin mode, Thats about all I got, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[serviBOT]

yes me too I'm working on it I will update you if I discover something

[serviBOT]

TheRealNiall [has STAR WARS™ Empire at War: Gold Pack] Sep 24, 2017 @ 10:16am
Empire at War will not Start (Solved)
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."

Last edited by TheRealNiall; Sep 27, 2017 @ 7:24pm

[Drewboug]

No luck unfortunately even if I just try to launch STarWars G directly still crash

[Drewboug]

Whats odd is the base game works fine. but I cant even launch the DLC and its worse because thats where all the mods are. and by all i mean 1 Awakening of the Rebellion

[peyparoni]

Originally posted by Drewboug:

Whats odd is the base game works fine. but I cant even launch the DLC and its worse because thats where all the mods are. and by all i mean 1 Awakening of the Rebellion

I am in the same boat my friend, my base game won't even launch now either 😒

[guardian1368]

same with me and did a window feature show up saying that it need NET. framework 3.5

[Drewboug]

I had catch an update for windows 11 that was sneaky and it seemed to fix the problem. But it still bugs out randomly

[peyparoni]

Originally posted by Drewboug:

I had catch an update for windows 11 that was sneaky and it seemed to fix the problem. But it still bugs out randomly

Whats the fix?

[Ravennaux]

Having this issue also..when it does run...booting as adm....freezes..ctd

[Drewboug]

Originally posted by peyparoni:

Originally posted by Drewboug:

I had catch an update for windows 11 that was sneaky and it seemed to fix the problem. But it still bugs out randomly

Whats the fix?

I had an update with windows 11 and it seemed to solve the problem. before I had to run in compatability mode but since the update it works generally better with minor freeze once in awhile

[peyparoni]

Originally posted by Drewboug:

Originally posted by peyparoni:

Whats the fix?

I had an update with windows 11 and it seemed to solve the problem. before I had to run in compatability mode but since the update it works generally better with minor freeze once in awhile

Ok, good to know, thanks!

[LordKetchup]

Originally posted by Drewboug:

Originally posted by peyparoni:

Whats the fix?

I had an update with windows 11 and it seemed to solve the problem. before I had to run in compatability mode but since the update it works generally better with minor freeze once in awhile

wait what is the compatablity mode that works

[guardian1368]

depends on what you use

also i was able to get mine fixed but for some reason it wont work on the D drive but C drive works

[peyparoni]

Originally posted by Drewboug:

Hey guys not sure whats going on. I can load the normal game, but when I try to load forces of corruption it kicks me out of the window during the loading screen. I tried reinstalling and removing all mods, run in admin mode, Thats about all I got, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Same here, kinda unfortunate as most mods are for FoC

[guardian1368]

Originally posted by peyparoni:

Originally posted by Drewboug:

Hey guys not sure whats going on. I can load the normal game, but when I try to load forces of corruption it kicks me out of the window during the loading screen. I tried reinstalling and removing all mods, run in admin mode, Thats about all I got, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Same here, kinda unfortunate as most mods are for FoC

try turning cloud off then delete all files then remove the game then download the game in the drive C then D if the 1st one you pick after trying the others other then that i got no idea
i had a problem with could not reset direct 3D device i think the things is what i have done above then i download game in D drive with all other games i get the error with cloud off but it worked in C drive
so you know i got no idea about fixes so it might not work