What's with this ? I have the latest Microsoft .NET installed but every attempt to run the game launches this screen. I have to press cancel or it'll be there forever. If I do the right combination of cancel it will says "You already have Empires running and will start the game after I click a few more buttons". I ran "Verify Integrity of Game Cache" - Successfully. My installed versions of .NET are: 1.0.3705. 1.1.4322 2.0.50727 3.0 3.5 4.0.30319 Might you need 4.5 ? Any fix for this ? Vinnie
http://steamdb.info/app/17740/#section_install Not a fix, just a prove that this will be checked on first launch.
.NET 3.5 SP1 is needed by EmpiresLauncher.exe since it's built with .NET. It should already be installed on Windows Vista and up. If it doesn't exist (i.e. for XP users), Steam should install it automatically when running Empires. It will check the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v3.5\Install to see if .NET 3.5 SP1 exists, if not, it will run the installer at redist\dotnetfx35setup.exe in your Empires install. The .NET installer should populate the required registry key when it completes. Check that registry key to see if it exists, if not, you could try creating it and see if that stops the installer from running.
..but may create fancy errors in windows logs on every launch. I don't have JustGoFly's problems, but checked my registry on 7 SP1 (latest patchlevel) out of curiousity. It has no install folder, but instead: Code: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v3.5] "Version"="3.5.30729.5420" "CBS"=dword:00000001 [COLOR="lime"][B]"Install"=dword:00000001[/B][/COLOR] "InstallPath"="C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework64\\v3.5\\" "SP"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v3.5\1031] "Version"="3.5.30729.5420" "CBS"=dword:00000001 "Install"=dword:00000001 "SP"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v3.5\1033] "Version"="3.5.30729.5420" "CBS"=dword:00000001 "Install"=dword:00000001 "SP"=dword:00000001 that green thing has to be there