CPU fix for High Count CPUs

[Telifex]

I've seen a lot of people still giving the old advice of disabling cores, but here is a simple file replacer made by a very kind someone that fixed the issue for my 3950x

No other modifications required. Just replaced a .dll in the game directory.

Dow2CoreFix[github.com]

[RENEGADE_TM]

Publicado originalmente por Norris Chuck:

Hey guys, I'm having the same issue. Trying to launch the game and everything just freezes and i have to sign out and relog to get anything to work. I've tried the link in the posts but I can't download the profiler.dll file. I just get a message saying "Profiler.dll isn't commonly downloaded. Make sure you trust Profiler.dll before you open it". But the file is nowhere to be found on my desktop to actually open it. Lol im at a loss. I have 700 hours in Dawn of War 2 alone and have never had this issue until i tried to launch the game recently. Any ideas on how to downlaoad that file are appreciated

https://github.com/maximumgame/DOW2CoreFix/releases/tag/v1.0

[Norris Chuck]

Publicado originalmente por RENEGADE_TM:

Publicado originalmente por Norris Chuck:

Hey guys, I'm having the same issue. Trying to launch the game and everything just freezes and i have to sign out and relog to get anything to work. I've tried the link in the posts but I can't download the profiler.dll file. I just get a message saying "Profiler.dll isn't commonly downloaded. Make sure you trust Profiler.dll before you open it". But the file is nowhere to be found on my desktop to actually open it. Lol im at a loss. I have 700 hours in Dawn of War 2 alone and have never had this issue until i tried to launch the game recently. Any ideas on how to downlaoad that file are appreciated

https://github.com/maximumgame/DOW2CoreFix/releases/tag/v1.0

Yes i know about the link. I was able to download the file but it still doesnt work. Removed old profiler.dll and put the new profiler.dll file in the folder. Instead of freezing the entire desktop now it attempts to launch the game but fails. i9-13900k, RTX4090, 64GB Ram, 4TB SSD. Gonna attempt to turn off all my efficiency cores in Bios and see if that works

[RENEGADE_TM]

Publicado originalmente por Norris Chuck:

Publicado originalmente por RENEGADE_TM:

https://github.com/maximumgame/DOW2CoreFix/releases/tag/v1.0

Yes i know about the link. I was able to download the file but it still doesnt work. Removed old profiler.dll and put the new profiler.dll file in the folder. Instead of freezing the entire desktop now it attempts to launch the game but fails. i9-13900k, RTX4090, 64GB Ram, 4TB SSD. Gonna attempt to turn off all my efficiency cores in Bios and see if that works

Ah ok, sometimes people cannot find it so I just riposted it for ya. All I know is my game used to freeze before the launch screen until I used the new profiler.dll. Hope you get it working. 700+ hours shows some love, ya know? Ryzen 5950X, RTX 3090, 128GB Ram, X3 4TB SSD

[bigritchie]

After installing DOW2,DOW2:CR, and or DOW2:R..

Open the "Install" Folder within Dawn of War 2 Directory,

Run and Install "vcedist"

Run and Install "DXSETUP"

Copy\Paste in Address Bar https://github.com/maximumgame/DOW2CoreFix/releases/tag/v1.0

Click on "Profiler.dll" under Assets, this will download a fix for Muilticore CPUs.

Cut\Copy\Drag "Profiler.dll" in DOW2 main Directory.

Run Game

[Nexus]

Publicado originalmente por Telifex:

I've seen a lot of people still giving the old advice of disabling cores, but here is a simple file replacer made by a very kind someone that fixed the issue for my 3950x

No other modifications required. Just replaced a .dll in the game directory.

Dow2CoreFix[github.com]

where is a file to download there ?

[Nexus]

Publicado originalmente por IV:

Publicado originalmente por R-Bull™_El _Schnarcho:

https://github.com/maximumgame/DOW2CoreFix/releases/tag/v1.0 Here you ll find it

It doesn't work for me
Does someone have this .dll file from this github link from above
https://github.com/maximumgame/DOW2CoreFix

not working thats so sad.

[Nexus]

Publicado originalmente por bigritchie:

After installing DOW2,DOW2:CR, and or DOW2:R..

Open the "Install" Folder within Dawn of War 2 Directory,

Run and Install "vcedist"

Run and Install "DXSETUP"

Copy\Paste in Address Bar https://github.com/maximumgame/DOW2CoreFix/releases/tag/v1.0

Click on "Profiler.dll" under Assets, this will download a fix for Muilticore CPUs.

Cut\Copy\Drag "Profiler.dll" in DOW2 main Directory.

Run Game

not working. cant believe that it is impossible to play anymore :(

[Vety122]

Is this thread still going? My laptop only has 4 cores, I've tried everything, and even though the profiler thing is only for 8 cores and above, I still tried it, but it did nothing, as soon as I click the executable or click play on steam it just goes straight into a crash report. I've tried running in compatibility mode, installed the DX and VC files in the install directory, and nothing works. Help please

[RENEGADE_TM]

Publicado originalmente por vety122:

Is this thread still going? My laptop only has 4 cores, I've tried everything, and even though the profiler thing is only for 8 cores and above, I still tried it, but it did nothing, as soon as I click the executable or click play on steam it just goes straight into a crash report. I've tried running in compatibility mode, installed the DX and VC files in the install directory, and nothing works. Help please

I guess the question would be, what have you changed to make it not work? hardware/software upgrades?

[Vety122]

Publicado originalmente por RENEGADE_TM:

Publicado originalmente por vety122:

Is this thread still going? My laptop only has 4 cores, I've tried everything, and even though the profiler thing is only for 8 cores and above, I still tried it, but it did nothing, as soon as I click the executable or click play on steam it just goes straight into a crash report. I've tried running in compatibility mode, installed the DX and VC files in the install directory, and nothing works. Help please

I guess the question would be, what have you changed to make it not work? hardware/software upgrades?

Ah sorry i completely forgot i posted on this thread.

Anyway, update, i got it to work somehow by replacing DivxMediaLib.dll and DivxDecoder.dll with updated versions i found on the internet

So, to anyone who's still having problems and none of the solutions in this thread are working, download those two files from google and put them into you game's install directory to replace the old files. Also you need to do this for both DoW 2 vanilla and Retribution because they have separate install directories. You don't need to do this for Chaos Rising because Chaos Rising is just a DLC unlike Retribution which is its own game.

[SoulEater]

Publicado originalmente por vety122:

Anyway, update, i got it to work somehow by replacing DivxMediaLib.dll and DivxDecoder.dll with updated versions i found on the internet

These the links?
https://www.dll-files.com/divxmedialib.dll.html
https://www.dll-files.com/divxdecoder.dll.html

[Vety122]

Publicado originalmente por SoulEater:

Publicado originalmente por vety122:

Anyway, update, i got it to work somehow by replacing DivxMediaLib.dll and DivxDecoder.dll with updated versions i found on the internet

These the links?
https://www.dll-files.com/divxmedialib.dll.html
https://www.dll-files.com/divxdecoder.dll.html

Yup

[Lacro]

Publicado originalmente por R-Bull™_El _Schnarcho:

https://github.com/maximumgame/DOW2CoreFix/releases/tag/v1.0 Here you ll find it

Thank you good man!
It worked for my system!

System settings:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core
RAM: DDR5 5200 64 Gb
GPU: GTX 1070 8 Gb
System: Windows 10 22H2

[Iron Knights]

Publicado originalmente por elbuenlatex:

I replaced the dll file and i still can't get the game to launch. I'm able to launch Dow 2 and DoW 2: Chaos Raising but i still can't get Retribution running. When I run it, my PC and TV get apparenty desynced and resynced several times. If i minimize the game, i can even see the loading screen and the menu in the mini display Windows gives you for minimized windows, but when i maximize it, the screen crashes again. Anybody else having this issue?

Specs:
-Windows 10 pro,
-AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics, 4 Cores
-GPU Radeon RX 570 Series

Turn off the Vega in Bios if you can, any which way. Or disable it in Windows Device Manager (but won't stick cause of new "green" Windows).

[fede.fadda1110]

Good evening. I recently changed my notebook (right now I have a HP notebook with 16 CPU cores) and reinstalled my Steam games. I wanted to play Dawn of War II: Retribution and sadly noticed that when I click the play button the seems to start but in the end does not start. Following some discussion on Steam I noticed that the problem could be the high number of cores of the CPU and tried the Corefix solution (both on Github website and both and the DOW2 mods website linked below):

https://github.com/maximumgame/DOW2CoreFix
https://www.moddb.com/mods/dow2-modding-tools-game-fixes/downloads/corefix

I also read some tutorials about the "The file d3dx9_xx.DLL was not found" related to the Direct X:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/game-error-the-file-d3dx9-xx-dll-was-not-found-0527b68b-0490-0a98-0c3a-57304047f974

Even this did not solve the issue.

Have I neglected anything? What else could I try?