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Anonymous
12 years ago

***fatal*** String Failed To Initialize Properly; Error Win 8.1

Brought the ultimate collection download code from amazon and downloaded RA2 from EA'S  'origin' client. Download went smoothly but when trying to launch the game i get ***fatal*** string failed to i...
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Anonymous
12 years ago

Tried that too! My friend downloaded it on his WIN7 and it worked fine. i cant understand why! All the others work fine! Anything else?

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EA_David
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12 years ago

Hmm. In case something glitched first time, try uninstalling, restarting Origin explcitly in admin mode, then install it again.

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    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Ok so shall i uninstall origin and then install origin as admin? and then run origin as admin and then install red alert 2 and run that as admin?

    thanks

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      EA_David
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      12 years ago

      You can do that, but just installing RA 2, then restarting Origin in Admin mode before reinstalling may suffice.

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        Anonymous
        12 years ago

        Nope still comes up with that error ☹️

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