Describe the bug
After finishing the patching process the game will sometimes (most times) not launch. This behaviour was first noticed around decemeber 2023. The splash screen will show up for a moment and disappear after a few seconds. The process will terminate with the splash screen vanishing.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Patch to previous version
Try to launch the game
Expected behavior
Game will launch
Screenshots
If applicable, add screenshots to help explain your problem.
Additional context
As provided in #10 by @lfueracker the windows event log will provide an error similar to this:
Notice that there seems to be an issue with ntdll.dll or the aoe2 executable. Performing a sfc /scannow did not find any issues with ntdll.dll. So it is likely a problem with the executable itself.
Describe the bug After finishing the patching process the game will sometimes (most times) not launch. This behaviour was first noticed around decemeber 2023. The splash screen will show up for a moment and disappear after a few seconds. The process will terminate with the splash screen vanishing.
To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Expected behavior Game will launch
Screenshots If applicable, add screenshots to help explain your problem.
Additional context As provided in #10 by @lfueracker the windows event log will provide an error similar to this:
Notice that there seems to be an issue with ntdll.dll or the aoe2 executable. Performing a
sfc /scannow
did not find any issues with ntdll.dll. So it is likely a problem with the executable itself.Also see the logs provided by @lfueracker in #10