Scourge of War Boards

From the log it seems a loading 5 error like the game cannot load 1 or more .dll, I saw in internet. It can be registry entry corrupted perhaps. Corsin as-tu CCleaner ou un software similaire pour le registry cleaning installée dans le PC? Tu peux essayer a desinstaller le jeux, executer le registry correction fonction et installer le jeux encore

PS: only if ADukes solutions don't work

I checked the executable disasm.
"load error5" means the Win32's API CryptAcquireContextA(phProv, "SOWWL", MS_DEF_PROV, ...) failed.
MS_DEF_PROV stands for the "Microsoft Base Cryptographic Provider v1.0" string.
The next "5" (ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED) comes from GetLastError().
Quickly googling I found this.
It looks like the launcher (I suppose it is using CreateProcess to run the game?) could be the source of the problem. Just an hypothesis.
Try to reboot the PC and start the core exe (not the launcher) directly from your install folder (what is it and the user login?)...
I'll look at the next error entries in the log tomorrow if Norb won't do it before.
Hope it helps.

Sorry, but the manipulation I have done many times, I launched I play with all exe it includes, the desktop shortcut, the game autorun file, the sowwl, all in administrator mode or not I deleted all the old versions of microsoft visual cc and installed the latest.

CreateProcess ???????

Merci , pour les réponses, meme si pour moi elles ne sont pas toutes bien comprises

Visual C++ runtimes shouldn't be updated btw.
They must exactly match the version of the compiler used by the devs.

CreateProcess more or less equals to a double-click on an exe or shortcut in your Windows shell.
The launcher calls it to run the actual SOWWL game.
There seems to exist conflicts however with having the child process calling CryptAcquireContextA in turn (the first line in the log says it failed).
Doesn't happen to me but under some particular user login/config/privileges circumstances it was reported.
This might be tricky to overcome in fact...
I suggest you to uninstall everything, cleanup folders/runtimes, and provide your current OS users/privileges situation somehow to Norb before reinstalling (possibly in the default paths and logged as admin? I don't know).

Was reported twice for GB, 1 in the forum and IIRC 1 per support mail.


EDIT: Probably the solution http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/fb.asp?m=3636901

Have you tried this yet?

I understand that we should start the game by using another administrator account? So create another one?

Yes the last post tell this

Hello,
I uninstalled the game the usual administrator account, on which all my games and software are installed.
I create a new account administrateur.J'ai done a reboot of the PC with the new administrator account, reinstalled SOWWL launched the game in Windows 7 compatibility, and there miracle the game became accessible.
I ask myself the question all the same, is it normal to start a game in this way, if all games had to start on different administrator accounts, it would be really a mess, or I have been a kind of punishment?
Finally, the game can be used, despite this désagrément.THANK YOU to everyone who responded to my requests.