[Crash?] Once updated, no longer able to launch game

[Dgikmo]

This is probably mislabeled, because the application fails to even start.

I'm using Steam, with the newest frontline version (0.572a). After downloading the update, I launched the game and my antivirus (Avast) performed what they call a DeepScreen on it, such that they were scanning it for any malicious whatever. Obviously, nothing was detected, but after it was screened, I can't launch the application. I tried reverting to the Stable release and launching it to no avail. I tried reinstalling the game, running it in both stable and frontline, and nothing happened.

I know that this is a problem with Avast somehow, but I'm not sure how to resolve this. I think it should probably be looked into as well because surely someone else is using Avast and has this game.

Thank you, as always.

 

[Yuuki]

try to put the SoG folder to the exception list and update the game once again.

 

[Teddy]

Yeah, seems like this is a widespread issue for Avast users trying to launch XNA based applications!

Thanks for reporting it - a couple of people have actually said they experienced similar issues but I haven't had the slightest clue of why that was. Most likely, they are having this very problem!

Here's a short stack overflow thread about it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...t-run-and-visual-studio-freezes-after-compile

And here's a bug report on Avast: https://feedback.avast.com/responses/deepscreen-corrupts-xna-apps

 

[Dgikmo]

I ended up solving this myself, but it required me removing at least some of the files from %appdata%. Once I launched the game successfully, and then restored the files, the game continues to launch correctly.

In other words, I have no idea.