I ran CCleaner yesterday and my guess is my Games for Windows Live got corrupted. I tried starting GTA4 and within a second or two after hitting start in Steam my whole computer would freeze. No response. Had to do a hard reboot. I figured it was just GTA messed up and tried a few more times. Same thing. Also same problem with GTA4 Episodes. I figured both were just broken and uninstalled. Today I tried Fallout 3 and it would start the launcher. After hitting play on launcher it would start a black screen then freeze within a few seconds. Same as GTA4.
Was able to figure out GFWL was the problem since other games worked fine but not those two. Uninstalled GFWL using regular uninstaller and rebooted. Reinstalled. Same thing. Tried various ways of uninstalling using Revo Uninstaller, a Microsoft Fix It tool that was supposed to remove broken installs. Nothing worked. Dirt 2 was also broken in the same way as the rest. Did a system restore back to before it happened. Same problem (was able to corrupt my install of League of Legends though so yay
)
After 2 hours of work I got no where and gave up. I'm totally stuck. Any tips on how to fix the registry damage (as I'm almost positive that's the problem).
Also GFWL is worse than EA DRM. There I said it. Microsoft, you should be ashamed.
With GFWL not installed Dirt 2 would crash as usual with it, but Fallout 3 wouldn't even launch the game. The launcher would load but after I hit play the steam deals would come up like they do when you finish playing a game.
I'm stuck.
Edit: Uninstalling Windows Essentials using Revo and clearing out all the files and registry pieces left over didn't help either. It did clean out a bunch of registry keys labelled GFWL so I thought it would fix it.
Was able to figure out GFWL was the problem since other games worked fine but not those two. Uninstalled GFWL using regular uninstaller and rebooted. Reinstalled. Same thing. Tried various ways of uninstalling using Revo Uninstaller, a Microsoft Fix It tool that was supposed to remove broken installs. Nothing worked. Dirt 2 was also broken in the same way as the rest. Did a system restore back to before it happened. Same problem (was able to corrupt my install of League of Legends though so yay
)After 2 hours of work I got no where and gave up. I'm totally stuck. Any tips on how to fix the registry damage (as I'm almost positive that's the problem).
Also GFWL is worse than EA DRM. There I said it. Microsoft, you should be ashamed.
With GFWL not installed Dirt 2 would crash as usual with it, but Fallout 3 wouldn't even launch the game. The launcher would load but after I hit play the steam deals would come up like they do when you finish playing a game.
I'm stuck.
Edit: Uninstalling Windows Essentials using Revo and clearing out all the files and registry pieces left over didn't help either. It did clean out a bunch of registry keys labelled GFWL so I thought it would fix it.
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