DISASTER--HELP

**IsItStillThere** · 03-04-2009, 22:22

Game installed fine, steam is working as it should, but everytime I try to start the game (either through steam or desktop shortcut) I get a near-instantaneous crash ("Empire.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.")

I went through and "verified" (what ever that means) the local cache files through the steam window...nothing unusual happened. Any suggestions???

**Hax** · 03-04-2009, 22:25

How about a nice clean reinstall?

**jameslacy3509** · 03-04-2009, 22:32

Mine did this too. I restarted the computer and it started....tried that?

**Thermal** · 03-04-2009, 22:33

Make sure the games in your steam folder and not your computer hardrive perhaps

**Belid Hagen** · 03-04-2009, 22:34

verify your copy of E:TW in steam

**IsItStillThere** · 03-04-2009, 22:50

Thanks everyone for the suggestions...computer needed a restart in between installing and playing.

gold star to Jameslacy!

**Rhyfelwyr** · 03-04-2009, 23:52

This issue should really be stickied or something, it caught me out as well.

**batemonkey** · 03-05-2009, 00:05

and me

**ConnMon** · 03-05-2009, 00:32

I'm installing right now, so thanks for the heads up.

**Zatoichi** · 03-05-2009, 01:35

Same here - I thought it was because I'd unlocked of the special forces and USS Constitution before trying to start the game and started panicking, but then I remembered the old 'turn it off and turn it on again' trick, and now it's 6 hours later and I'm going to be horribly tired at work tomorrow (today?)

Tired but happy!

**Eusebius86** · 03-05-2009, 01:57

I'm going to get the game tomorrow. So let me get this straight, I need to uninstall the demo, install ETW, restart pc, then run ETW? Am I missing any other important steps? Also, am I going to be screwed if my main harddrive is my "g:" drive and not my "c:" drive? Thanks!