I get a black box that says the handle is invalid 0x6 any ideas? I have uninstalled and reinstalled and verified the files
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I had to go into the steam files find the exe and change it to run as administrator and now it works weird as far as I know nothing has changed in my files.
I thought it was fixed now when I go to the launcher screen after starting it in steam I have two options continue or play when i hit play a red triangle comes up saying launching the game failed any help would be great.
Has the game ever run successfully on this computer? Or never?
IF IT USED TO RUN:
Please do a full **clean** re-install:
- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-Imperator
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/Imperator AND Documents/Paradox/Imperator folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add imperator.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
- start the game with no mods active and test
In particular you need to make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam Imperator or Documents Imperator locations, before installing again.
IF NEVER:
Install ALL these Microsoft modules:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=8328
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=13523
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52685
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109
(run dxsetup.exe after extracting from this download)
Add imperator.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
Also if you have the MSI Gaming App installed, disable it as it clashes with this game.
If that doesn't help:
DXDIAG is a program you run from a command prompt or the Windows start menu 'run' dialog box (or 'search programs' in Windows 7 or later). After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.
Please attach your Documents/Paradox/Imperator/pdx_settings.txt.
From your Documents/Paradox/Imperator/logs/ folder, attach system.log .
IF IT USED TO RUN:
Please do a full **clean** re-install:
- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-Imperator
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/Imperator AND Documents/Paradox/Imperator folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add imperator.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
- start the game with no mods active and test
In particular you need to make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam Imperator or Documents Imperator locations, before installing again.
IF NEVER:
Install ALL these Microsoft modules:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=8328
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=13523
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52685
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109
(run dxsetup.exe after extracting from this download)
Add imperator.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
Also if you have the MSI Gaming App installed, disable it as it clashes with this game.
If that doesn't help:
DXDIAG is a program you run from a command prompt or the Windows start menu 'run' dialog box (or 'search programs' in Windows 7 or later). After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.
Please attach your Documents/Paradox/Imperator/pdx_settings.txt.
From your Documents/Paradox/Imperator/logs/ folder, attach system.log .
it was working fine up until I reported this I have discovered that I can goto binary and launch the game from there I will try your steps and see what happens.
tried the steps did not work here is what you asked for
I did not have a Documents/Paradox/Imperator/logs/ folder until I launched the game from the binary folder it is attached.
thank you for any help you can give me
I did not have a Documents/Paradox/Imperator/logs/ folder until I launched the game from the binary folder it is attached.
thank you for any help you can give me
In the game launcher set Display mode to Borderless.
And update that nVidia driver please:
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
Good luck!
And update that nVidia driver please:
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
Good luck!
go into the folder and go in the launcher folder put the dowser.exe on administrator as well as the imperator.exe in binaries, that was my issue they have to both on admin when only 1 is it doesn t work somehow worked for me before as well and 1.4.2 broke it somehow
This fixed my problem thank you so much.
On a side note and I love them still but I think I am done buying gigabyte laptops I bought an aorus 17 xa and you can not manually update the nvidia driver it wont do it. Nvidia today basically told me im screwed unless i unistall the control center or wait for gigabytes version of the driver. really frustrating but imperator works now thanks for the help