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alexs11987

Re: Command & Conquer games won't start

Well, the case was everything was just fine yesterday after a windows update, im not sure which one. KB4537572 KB0565063 KB4551762

I tried everything what i could find on the internet, also complete reinstall. nothing worked out.

Won't launch at all, with no errors: C&C 3, 4, generals. After that i tried GTA5(complete other engine and pretty more up to date i suggest) and that one gave me a error that suggest an memory error (social-club-setup.exe 0xc000007b). After some googling i found

https://steamcommunity.com/app/271590/discussions/0/1694922526905902928/

Disable controlled folder access and mandatory ASLR in windows defender - (that is NOT disabling windows defender) - or add socialclubsetup to exclusions for those.
(if you enable them via the registry, disable them that way too -.-)

https://steamcommunity.com/app/271590/discussions/0/1479856439034421847/#c1479856439039081658

*Seeing as there is a new launcher/procedures - the launcher install itself may needed to be also excluded/whitelisted in defender, as well as the launcher install folder / .exe's, and even the redistribs folder/subfolders for even more .exe's ---- the ones no longer contained in the game's folder. Hooray, file duplication/bloat.

Disabling controlled folder access only didnt do the job, after disabling all exploit protection everything was fine again.

4 Replies

mrtnptrs
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@alexs11987 Ok, good that it worked, but disabling that leaves people more vulnerable for exploits. So, I wouldn't advice it to people that quickly I think.
spoonsnoodle22
6 years ago
Whats the issue then if your game wont show anything on the screen but I can hear some sound going on in the background?
mrtnptrs
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@spoonsnoodle22 That is a separate issue; please make a new topic in which you describe the problem in detail and also explain which CNC-game you're actually talking about haha.
Cary_L_Brown
5 years ago
I have what might be a similar issue... so far, while testing my various installed applicaitons, I have only seen it on one version, however.
In "Command and Conquer - Generals," the game launcher starts, and allows the game itself to start. I hear the "EA Games" video START to play, but it doesn't play all the way through, and I see only a black screen, with a bit of garbageflashing on it very briefly."
I tried setting my screen refresh rate down from its default 144 to 60... that often works in cases like this... but that didn't help.
The program continues to run in the background but the only way to fix things (so to speak) is to alt-tab out of the program and use "Process Explorer" to kill the game EXE.