I'm going through everything working on documenting stuff for a (much) larger post about the way the game is currently setup for speedrunning, but I wanted to share this while I'm working on that.
I didn't see this mentioned in any of the guides here, but as part of my aforementioned (much) larger post I just re-installed the game using the instructions in the guide(s) here.
The main problem with getting RE5 to run is that the G4WL installer that's included with the game (redist/gfwlivesetup.exe) will not work. When you launch the game, the BH5AE_install.vdf (source | depot) file will try and run the default gfwlivesetup.exe installer. This will fail since it's an online version of the installer and you'll get this error message:
If you look at the log files the setup created, you'll see this line:
(12:46:43) Download http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=201788 failed [Code:0x800c0008]
This is because the file that gfwlivesetup.exe installer is trying to download is no longer available from Microsoft.
To get around this, you'll need an offline version of the installer, which you can download from PCGamingWiki here:
Microsoft Games for Windows - LIVE 3.5.95.0
This package contains the following official downloads packaged together for convenience:
gfwlivesetup.exe gfwlclient.msi xliveredist.msi (renamed from XLiveUpdate.msi to xliveredist.msi to enable detection by gfwlivesetup.exe) wllogin_32.msi and wllogin_64.msi (this installation step is skipped automatically on Windows 8 and later)
Also, I'm not sure why there's two guides that just reference each other, but they could easily just be consolidated.
- Why your game doesnt say 1.1.0 in the bottom right hand corner of the title screen
- How to update the game so it says 1.1.0 in the bottom right of the title screen
This guide also mentions you could replace one of the dll files the game uses, but that's not recommended as you're not actually resolving the dependency.
What to do if your game isnt opening after a fresh install
Obviously there's a million ways to fix any problem, but personally I don't think that telling people to download and replace the game's files with ones from someone's Google Drive is the solution. This is just one part of a much bigger problem I have with the way things are setup for RE5 speedrunning.
The formatting on this site is just absolutely abysmal. Markdown isn't that difficult to support so I'm not sure why this site can't implement it properly but I don't feel like try to guess SRC formatting. I just created a gist so it's easier to read.
The reason it's not mentioned is because we don't know much about the pc version, and are just going off the fixes that have worked for us and other members of the community. And I'm simply trying to help people and give them the information we have been given and works for us,
Maybe try to sound a little less disrespectful towards the people just tying to help get the game running for speedrunning :)
The xlive file in the google drive bypass the entire gfwl download stuff and makes you just play the game like normal. There are of course more solutions but why take the hard route when easy mode exist? Just sayin.
