"Failed to Initialize Game"

[Hig Boss]

As it says in the title, I will try to launch the game only to have it say "Failed to Initialize Game." I've tried messing with regedit, deleting the demo, deleting the full game and re-downloading it, verifying cache integrity, everything that has been suggested in the other threads. Are there any other types of solutions?

[j12apt]

Any luck, I'm still knackered :-((

[mike]

Steam should automatically set the registry for you when you install the game, but there might be some windows user account control issue which is causing a problem.

What windows version do you have?
Is it 32 or 64-bit?
Is the user account an admin account?
What is your User Account Control Notification setting? (i.e. Always notify, Never notify, etc)

[j12apt]

Sorry to be dim I drive a 44tonne Artic, PC's not my thing,I'm the only user on this laptop, as for account notificaton, I'm utterly lost. Ive just tried to double click on my account but I cant find anything that helps with notification....
There needs to be a dial in facility for folks me thinks to help us out ;-((

[Hig Boss]

Hey mike, I'm currently using a 64 bit OS on Windows 8 and my account is an admin account. My UAC setting is set to "Always Notify" too.

[j12apt]

windows8 64bit

[mike]

If you're running 64-bit windows the CD key should be in this folder in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Muzzy Lane Software\Making History Gold

name: LicenseKey
type: REG_SZ

The value should match the CD key shown under 'View CD Key' from the right-click menu for the game in the steam library.

If it's there and the game is still popping up with a "Invalid License Key" message you could send us an email to [e-mail] and we can try validating the key here.

If you're getting a different message (and NOT getting the "Invalid License Key" message), there's some other problem. More information on the error can be obtained by running debugView ( https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896647.aspx ) and have it running when you try running the game. You can save the log from there and send it to [e-mail]

[tbag1212]

I am also having this problem now. I bought the game yesterday installed it and played though the tutorial quit for the night and when I tried to play it today I get the error messages. I'm windows 8 64 bit

[Furor Teutonicus]

Originally posted by mike:

If you're running 64-bit windows the CD key should be in this folder in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Muzzy Lane Software\Making History Gold

name: LicenseKey
type: REG_SZ

The value should match the CD key shown under 'View CD Key' from the right-click menu for the game in the steam library.

This worked ! THX

[camperKilla]

Not working for me..... palyed for 2 hours and after this

[mike]

Originally posted by tbag1212:

I am also having this problem now. I bought the game yesterday installed it and played though the tutorial quit for the night and when I tried to play it today I get the error messages. I'm windows 8 64 bit

This may be a result of "Registry Virtualization": https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa965884(v=vs.85).aspx

Did you try running steam as administrator when it first installed? Are you using an admin or non-admin windows user account?

[j12apt]

This file: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Muzzy Lane Software\Making History Gold .... Does not exist, I deleted as recommended. Ive reinstalled game 4 times since & the file has not returned to the registry even after deleting and reinstalling.

[tbag1212]

I finally got it to work by deleting it and setting Steam to run as admin and reinstalling it.

[mike]

> the file has not returned to the registry

It's probably in some "virtual registry" location specific to your user name or (vice versa) you are running regedit as a non-admin and it's hiding the key from you. UAC is annoying.

Try this:

From the steam Library, right-click on "Making History :The Calm and the storm Gold Edition"
Choose "properties"
Click on the "Local Files" tab
Choose "Browse Local Files..."
Open the "install" directory
Right-click on "MHGoldSetKey" and choose "Run as administrator"

That should put the CD key in the registry.

[Ken]

i have the same problem, i tried everything but cant find the registery, it is set to run as admin, deleted demo and reinstalled, same problem

[mike]

Originally posted by kennethsmt2002:

i have the same problem, i tried everything but cant find the registery, it is set to run as admin, deleted demo and reinstalled, same problem

If you run debugView then run MHGoldSetKey.exe as admin per my previous post, it should report the results in the debugView log which should help us narrow things down.