
After reading more forums, there was this thing about games not being able to access a file required for it (The Exception Access Violation, I presume). I'm not entirely sure what I did, but the game is now working. But the problem has also apparently happened in various other games as well.

BFME uses an upgraded version of the Zero Hour engine, so it may be the same error. The symbol has been different, but for the past 8 times (and others) it has been the FXParticleSystem thing.įrom what I've seen, this problem has occurred before in Command and Conquer: Generals: Zero Hour. The 'access address' number seems to be different every, or most of the time, along with all of the other numbers, as far as I can tell. Then the game does not start, and in its stead is an error screen (see attached image). Every time I try to start the game, it shoes the title screen that appears right before the game takes control of the desktop (the desktop is still visible around the image). The problem happens both before and after patching. I have tried multiple reinstalls of the game, and have patched it. For the rest of my hardware, I can't say, but the game ran fine a few months ago. I have the latest graphics drivers (downloaded it last night). For a taste, I have an nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS and an Intel Core 2 Duo (Conrad, I think it was) as 2.66 GHz My system specs far exceed the requirements of this old(ish) game.

I had the game running perfectly a few months ago before I uninstalled it for space. This is not my first time installing the game. My copy of The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth encounters an error every time I try to start it up.
