I have updated my game, the hot fix of March 18th, and my game still doesn't launch with cc installed. I still get the message "Failed to launch game" when cc is installed.
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My theory is because this is such a random occuring error (something I have never encountered before after an update), meaning the game loads sometimes and other times it doesn't, is that it's probably affecting a lot more people who play with CC and just haven't noticed yet because it hasn't happened for them yet. Because some people had it happen right away and have been used to doing tests after updates, they are noticing it because they're trying to start up the game a lot more. If you read through the comments a lot of people have been trying workarounds that work for a while and then don't, because I truly believe this is a change that happened to due the update and how the game is now reading CC files, and is not something that can be fixed by changing folder names, the resource file, localthumbcache, etc. Believe me I tried it all.
Of course, many aren't yet aware of the full extent of the problem. This includes weekend players, those who haven't updated at all, and probably thousands more who are (unfortunately pointlessly) searching their folders for broken custom content/mods. EA still hasn't acknowledged that they made a mistake. Thanks to everyone contributing temporary workarounds – but I, too, will not change my PC settings or any other software, or potentially manipulate game files, for something that worked perfectly until March 17th.
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