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WTF_DOC
4 years ago
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Workaround: C&C Remastered - Failed to launch, start as administrator

Here is a work around if your C&C Remsastered won't launch on PC using EA Desktop (including xbox gold pass or regular EA desktop). If the game fails to launch, prompting to launch in administrator ...
  • Lucia_Stardust's avatar
    Lucia_Stardust
    3 years ago

    incase someone comes upon this thread, go into Properties of your Game in the EA-App and add -NOSPLASHPRELOAD
    Idk what it does i have it from a Steamfix for this game and it also works in the EA-App. I can start the game finally now.

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Nyerguds
Hero+
3 years ago

@Lucia_Stardust They added a logic to preload textures on game startup, which prevents it lagging in-game when it loads them there for the first time. The "NOSPLASHPRELOAD" option disables that preload logic.

There's no minus before that though; it's "NOSPLASHPRELOAD", not "-NOSPLASHPRELOAD".

https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-conquer-remastered/news/july-beta-patch


Anyway, as side effect it might cause some lag when you first go in-game, possibly once for each terrain tileset.

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bleearghh
3 years ago

Hi all, I'd been playing around with this issue a couple of weeks ago as per below thread:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Command-Conquer-Games/Command-and-Conquer-Remastered-Failed-to-launch/td-p/12253286

Just thought I'd share my findings here. There is an error in the CnCRemastered\__Installer\installerdata.xml file. The EA app uses that file when calling the launcher (ClientLauncherG.exe).

The XML allows parameters to be passed when calling the exe but parameters need to be preceded by a valid switch symbol in the XML eg - or -- or /

The XML has the parameter DUMP_FULL but because the switch is missing before it, it fails to launch and errors out.

If you specify your own parameter in the app (via View Properties) it seems to override the invalid XML parameter and it launches the game.

Whether you use my suggested parameter from the other thread (-REDALERT), the parameter suggested in this thread (-NOSPLASHPRELOAD) or just some made up switch (like -ILIEKTURTLEZ) it doesn't matter, the game will still launch. Alternatively, you can also correct the XML if preferred and you're comfortable with doing that.

It's doubtful if even valid parameters actually take effect, since the exe just launches the launcher.

By the way, you have to use a switch symbol (whether in the EA App or in the XML, as it is how the EA app parses them).

  • Nyerguds's avatar
    Nyerguds
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @bleearghh Ha, that explains a lot. I had a suspicion though, since the mentioned REDALERT parameter is meant for ClientG.exe (to launch directly into RA), not for ClientLauncherG.exe.

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