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BlueCheese66769
3 years ago

Zero Hour fails to start. "Activation.dll" error: 0xc0000005 (Access Denied)

Hello All! I'm using "EA App" in PC with an account that linked to Xbox with GamePass. Downloaded 3 games under "Command & Conquer - The Ultimate Collection" game, and faced with this situation: ...
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melados3
3 years ago
@BlueCheese6676 Have you found a solution to this? I am not too tech savvy and I have tried a lot of different things just as you have to address this. It is so weird because it was working fine prior to the switch to the ea application from Origin. This only happened to one of our family members running command and conquer zero hour. The others are not having this issue. They also have that grey loading screen pop up for a second then it goes away, and the Ea application opens back up.
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BlueCheese66769
3 years ago

Actually yes. Not a nice workaround, but works. Got the idea from another thread here, and can confirm it works.

Use NO-CD Crack, then you can play with your official and paid game under a paid service. It's nice, isn't it? :D 

With this method you bypass the issues with Activation.dll...

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    antpitt
    3 years ago


    @BlueCheese66769 joining in this thread, after weeks of trying to figure out why Zero Hour and Red Alert won't load after mandatory EA update.   I tried everything in many other forums and none of them worked.   Finally saw my event log error with the exact same activation.dll error as this thread.

    Can you elaborate on the NO-CD crack workaround?

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