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PinkFox7x
10 months ago

Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2012 Won't Launch

Hello! This is an interesting issue. My kids have their own accounts. Each of them have NFS MW 2012. On our computer the game will launch from one of their accounts, but if we switch accounts to the...
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10 months ago
Hi @PinkFox7x, Do you get a specific error message, or what happens when you attempt to launch NFS?

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PinkFox7x
10 months ago

That's part of the problem. There is no error message. Simply nothing happens. I show up in people's steam friend's list as launching the game, but then it never actually launches and the "play" button in steam goes back to being green and just says "play" again. It seems like its crashing or something.

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    10 months ago

    Hey @PinkFox7x Thanks for the additional information. 

    Have you tested that account on another device, to see if it can launch there? 

    If not, is each account using the same install location, or do you have multiple installations of NFS on the PC?

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