Launcher Crashes Now, but it used to work

[aaronlk]

Civ 5 has worked great for many months. I last used it several day ago without any problems.

Now when I try to load, it gives me "Civilization V Launcher has stopped working".

Rebooting doesn't fix it.

I'm running Windows Vista and it installed some updates recently. Could they have broken the Civ 5 launcher?

I've been using DX 9.

This is what Event Viewer says:
Faulting application Launcher.exe_Sid Meier's Civilization V, version 1.0.0.1, time stamp 0x4d5adbeb, faulting module steam_api.dll, version 6.0.6002.18327, time stamp 0x4cb73436, exception code 0xc0000135, fault offset 0x00009f7d, process id 0xb88, application start time 0x01cc589b45cd2821.

Maybe the Steam upgrade failed? It looks like there was one today.

 

[aaronlk]

Can I run it without using the launcher? If so, where is the executable that I can run?

 

[Ribblet]

Yep, used to work. Haven't played for a few days and now I go to run it and it says:

Faulting application Launcher.exe_Sid Meier's Civilization V, version 1.0.0.1, time stamp 0x4d5adbeb, faulting module steam_api.dll, version 6.0.6002.18327, time stamp 0x4cb7341c, exception code 0xc0000135, fault offset 0x0006f51f, process id 0x6e4, application start time 0x01cc594afcc4fd10.

Its not steam because I can run other games, like Dawn of Discovery and that is a power hungry game.

 

[Ribblet]

Found the answer on another thread. Works now!

In Steam, go Library -> Games -> Civ5 -> rightclick -> properties and check the integrity of the local files.

Ran the check and now the game starts right up.

 

[aaronlk]

That fix works. Thanks!

 

[JFR]

Thanks Ribblet. Worked for me too.