AspieAnarchy

OK! After all that, you know what FINALLY made it work??? Switching from 64-bit to 32-bit. Go figure.

Did I not do that yet? You must not be talking about the thing I already shared.

*poke* I'm still in the same jam. I was actually wondering, since we've been informed about Thursday, if there was any chance in hell the next update/maintenance might somehow fix it.

That's what I tried; it didn't show up on the roster....

OK! So I tried Windows Restore, first to 1 week ago - the anniversary of this problem! - then to 2 weeks ago: 1 week ago: I got an error. Windows Restore failed due to an "error". BUT...! 2 weeks ago: Windows Restore worked. BUT...! Launcher still doesn't. So I've moved onto trying to uninstall, BUT...! I can't find the Launcher to uninstall it! Is it possible that that, and/or the aforementioned Restore anomaly, are hints???

So how would I go about that? Bear in mind that as of last Friday. everything worked as normal - then on Saturday, it was like this. I do not recall doing anything to change my computer in the interim...and the fact that MS is no longer supporting it should also mean it's no longer screwing with it, so it should at least be stable; weird.

So what now?

OK! I tried this. It didn't work. OTOH: I've just tried logging in on a different computer (a laptop that is generally not as good) that runs Windows 8 or 10 or something like that; it does seem to work (I cannot actually try playing yet, as it happens to be Downtime as of this entry, but at least I was able to get to the login screen!).

...So what now?

Found it!!!: Now I'll head out for a couple hours, but I'll be back! TYSM!

Please understand, I have no idea where to find most of these things offhand, so please mention where to look for them (and/or be clearer about what medium you're referring to; I am not hip to shorthand). I just tried looking in my Documents, if it's files you're referring to, but I hope not, because neither "Homecoming" nor "logs" held anything useful (the "logs" file was all dated from February of this year!).

I had no idea that was a thing - and that's weird! Now that I've turned it off, it says it's RUNNING! I still don't understand how to SEE what the console log is saying (OTOH, see above!).

Done. What next? I have not. Oh! Nota Bene (maybe): When I TRY to hit the play/launch button as normal, not only does it not launch...the launcher closes, just as if I'd hit the 'X' icon in the upper-right. I can open it back up easily enough, but that's not exactly supposed to happen.

It's even worse than it looks...but I've had that setup for a long time and this has never happened before then, so it's clearly not that. I hope at least some of you enjoyed my desktop wallpaper! 😄

I don't understand how; I've done this: ...but I don't understand what's supposed to happen. I hit Enter after entering those parameters, but nothing happened.