Not a valid win32 application. Fail on startup.

[Keytium]

Whenever I attempt to start the game I am told "C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Democracy 3\Democracy3Africa.exe is not a valid win32 application." The game doesn't load far enough to create an error log, so I can't provide that. This kind of error normally occurs when the program doesn't support Windows XP (which I'm using), but the system requirements say that Xp is supported.

[jztemple]

Hmmm... This is a long shot, but you can try right clicking on Democracy3Africa.exe in the main folder (which is C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Democracy 3 in the default install) and at the bottom of the context menu is "Properties". Click on that, then click on the "Compatibility" tab, then you'll see a click box for "Compatibility Mode". Click it and select XP mode and give that a try. It still might not work, but it's all I can think of right now.

[Keytium]

Xp doesn't have a compatability mode for xp. Thanks for the suggestion though.

[cliffski]

Hi, we are aware of this as an issue and will be providing a fix for it soon. Sorry for the inconvenience, Microsoft practically goes out of its way to prevent you including XP compatibility when you build stuff now :(

[Keytium]

Thank you very much for responding. I look forward to the update. :)

[jztemple]

Originally posted by Keytium:

Xp doesn't have a compatability mode for xp. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Sorry, that should have been obvious to me :(

[cliffski]

Ok, we just patched it, should be ok on XP now...

[Keytium]

Thank you ever so much for such a swift fix. Works great.