Game Not Launching

Hey Everyone,

Just ran into this issue and it was pissing me off, so I fixed it and thought I would post the solution here.

If you click on the EXE and try to launch the game, it will attempt to load the config which will fail on Windows 10.
If you try to launch the config application directly from the folder, in Windows 10 it will also fail, saying something about Out of Memory.

So the two things fail on Windows 10, so we need to change the names of the files in order to trick Steam into launching the game directly.

Step 1 - Name the "JadeEmpireConfig" to "JadeEmpireConfigOLD"
Step 2 - Name the "JadeEmpireLauncher" to "JadeEmpireLauncherOLD"
Step 3 - Name the "JadeEmpire" to "JadeEmpireLauncher"

This tricks steam into thinking it is launching the Jade Empire Launcher but it just launches the game directly instead when you select the game from steam. It should run, the default settings for the game seem to look and run fine (I have played the game on a very old laptop and it works no issues), so launching the game directly without the config should work for most people.

At least this will get people into the game and having fun.

Good luck!

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Why do I need to add this?

[Nonphixionx]

AWESOME IT WORKED!

[TheBroTurps]

just says "failed to find steam" after trying this

[luerim]

As of now, fixes not working.

[Elvick]

Thanks, I tired some others and they didn't work for me but this one did

[Mason]

After multiple attempts trying to get this game to run, I found your comment and it worked FIRST TRY! Thank you very much! Here's your thumbs up and award!

[Sternengruesser]

This did the job for me. Great work! Thank you so much.

[Lift the Camel]

Don't know why I didn't think of this. I was just going into the game files and manually launching JadeEmpire.exe. Thanks for pointing out that renaming it will let me launch it from Steam.

[l3ng3ndaryl1nk]

this worked for me first try after so much stuff did'nt thank you you clever girl

[FantomFoxIRL]

steam.dll is missing is a common cause of this fix not working had to copy it from another game it worked after wards

[Roaches Are Pets]

hmm after i did his step by step i never had a problem i noticed old games have problems.i wanted prince of persia but its so buggy for some reason