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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
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.

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.