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alvincanada
3 years ago
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Command and Conquer Remastered -- Failed to launch

After downloading and installation through EA app, games can't startup and error pops up as. （asking to give permission, after pressing OK, failed to launch caused by error) My system is Windows 11....
  • bleearghh's avatar
    bleearghh
    3 years ago

    I had same issue but managed to get C&C Remastered to launch by selecting it in the EA App, clicking MANAGE, then View Properties and then adding -REDALERT to the Advanced launch options. After clicking OK to the admin prompt, the launcher successfully ran and allowed me to select my C&C original game or Red Alert.

    Hopefully this will work for others too until EA sort out the bugs in this awful EA app.

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Spiderwolfer
3 years ago

It is set to "always notify". That shouldn't be a problem though as I have all the credentials for the admin account. If it asks for a password I'd be able to give it. The issue is that it doesn't ask for it when I launch the game.

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bleearghh
3 years ago

@Spiderwolfer I wanted to check as some people seem to have had success with the UAC setting that you already have set but I suspect they were already logged in on an admin account rather than a standard user. Guess we're no further forward in trying to work out what the problem is but I suspect it's the EA app code itself and probably too hard to fix outside of EA fixing it themselves.

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    Spiderwolfer
    3 years ago

    Yeah I'd agree. It seems like it's failing to gather the correct permissions. I'd be curious to know why only some games are failing to accomplish this. I'll let you know if I figure anything out or it gets fixed. Seems this comment section is beginning to have more IT guys working on this than EA lol. Until then let me tell you my discoveries:

    - Trying to launch it in compatibility mode on a Standard User fails, this is due to it not being able to access the ssleay32.dll file in the core folder. No idea why it can't. I tried this again after running the game on an administrator side hoping to initialize the ssleay32.dll file again but nothing changed.

    - On a Standard User setting the exe file to run as administrator changes nothing.

    - Setting the EA app with admin privileges does nothing

    - Clearing the cache does nothing

    - Resetting the app does nothing

    - Redownloading the app or game does nothing

    - Downloading the game from the Standard User side barely even works and needs user assistance AND changes nothing.

    I acknowledge that there are helper tools you can download that supposedly fix the problems but I will not download sketchy third-party tools. The fact that one of EA's suggestions is to disable antivirus and firewalls to help it out is pretty moronic as well and I will not be doing that. Thank goodness we have people like you trying to help. Hopefully this info can be useful.

  • bleearghh's avatar
    bleearghh
    3 years ago

    @Spiderwolfer Thanks for the kind words. Wish I could be of more help but it's gonna require someone more technical than me to come up with a standard user account workaround (if such a workaround is possible). Otherwise, as I say, it's probably going to have to wait for EA to pull their finger out and fix it :/ They did eventually at least fix their flaky parameter handling when parsing their XML, so maybe they'll fix this issue too. On the other hand maybe I'm being too optimistic!

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