Kingdoms won't launch

[Ninjaheman]

SecuROM on Kingdoms is causing issues. Kingdoms digital download from Gamersgate isn't executing.

[irishron]

1. Are you logged in as Administrator?
2. Have you disabled the UAC in the registry?
3. Have you taken ownership/control of C: drive?
4. Have you installed the game in anything BUT Program Files or Program Files (x86)?
This is the way around SecuROM BS on a digital download.

Oh yeah, kingdoms.exe is not a standalone executable. You need one of the four Kingdoms campaigns that came with it or a mod based on one of the campaigns.

Anything less, you will be fighting a losing battle with yourself.

And, no, I'm not going to make fun of you.

[irishron]

1. Are you logged in as Administrator?
2. Have you disabled the UAC in the registry?
3. Have you taken ownership/control of C: drive?
4. Have you installed the game in anything BUT Program Files or Program Files (x86)?
This is the way around SecuROM BS on a digital download.

Oh yeah, kingdoms.exe is not a standalone executable. You need one of the four Kingdoms campaigns that came with it or a mod based on one of the campaigns.

Anything less, you will be fighting a losing battle with yourself.

And, no, I'm not going to make fun of you.

[Ninjaheman]

1. yessir
2. Nope, it had been suggested before but to be honest I'm a little frightened to turn it off completely and I heard it disables metro apps. Also I distinctly recall that it turned out to not be necessary when I got it working last time. I will do it if you believe it to be of significant importance.
3. Under Administrators I have Full Control. When I try to add Full Control to Users it comes up with a few different errors in separate windows that I'm not sure whether of not I should be concerned about or if it doesn't pertain to us :

"An error ocurred while applying security information to:
C:\Boot
Failed to enumerate objects in the container. Access is denied."

And the same thing for C:\bootmgr, C:\Program Files, C:\Program Files (x86), C:\Windows

Then -
"An error occurred while applying security information to:
C:\hiberfil.sys
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process"

And the same thing for C:\pagefile.sys, C:\swapfile.sys

4. Yes, I mostly install all my games outside of Program Files. In this case it's C: > Users > *Name* > Games (the files aren't in a medieval folder because Gamersgate didn't create one, but I've tried it where I've created a Medieval 2 Total War folder myself as well and installed it there and it didn't work. That wouldn't make a difference, would it?)

Interesting about Kingdoms.exe!! I can't find .exe for any of the four campaigns either for some reason.

Thanks so much for your help and for not making fun of 'That guy that bought from Gamersgate".

[irishron]

1. yessir
2. Nope, it had been suggested before but to be honest I'm a little frightened to turn it off completely and I heard it disables metro apps. Also I distinctly recall that it turned out to not be necessary when I got it working last time. I will do it if you believe it to be of significant importance.

Others have found it to be a necessity for Medieval2.

3. Under Administrators I have Full Control. When I try to add Full Control to Users it comes up with a few different errors in separate windows that I'm not sure whether of not I should be concerned about or if it doesn't pertain to us :

"An error ocurred while applying security information to:
C:\Boot
Failed to enumerate objects in the container. Access is denied."

And the same thing for C:\bootmgr, C:\Program Files, C:\Program Files (x86), C:\Windows

Then -
"An error occurred while applying security information to:
C:\hiberfil.sys
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process"

And the same thing for C:\pagefile.sys, C:\swapfile.sys

All of us short of a Developer's license from Microsoft gets these messages. Click Okay and go on.

4. Yes, I mostly install all my games outside of Program Files. In this case it's C: > Users > *Name* > Games (the files aren't in a medieval folder because Gamersgate didn't create one, but I've tried it where I've created a Medieval 2 Total War folder myself as well and installed it there and it didn't work. That wouldn't make a difference, would it?)

It may with all else taken care of first.

Interesting about Kingdoms.exe!! I can't find .exe for any of the four campaigns either for some reason.

Right-click the icon, click properties and will find in the Target line, it points to a batch file in the matching folder.

Thanks so much for your help and for not making fun of 'That guy that bought from Gamersgate".

[Ninjaheman]

Securom got back with me. They gave me an unlock code and it worked.

Thanks so much for your help and timely responses, Irishron. I bet you've cured more headaches than Tylenol with your 42 thousand posts.