Application Load Error

[YellowFin]

What I wanted to do: Test the new WAC 5.0 supermod with a separate SH3 installation.

What my setup was before anything happened:



One unmodified, original steam installation in the standard path (c:\prog...\steamapps\common\silent hunter 3)
One modified sh3 installation in c:\games\sh3 (LSH3 2015 and realistic contacts)


Because I knew I had started the original steam installation I knew it was no good to use, so I uninstalled sh3 (from within steam), cleaned the registry with CCleaner and reinstalled via steam.

After successful installation (which I did not run) I copied over the contents of c:\program...\steamapps\common\silent hunter 3 into c:\games\sh3_wac5 and tried to run sh3.exe (compatibility set to win xp, sp 2 and no wide screen optimizations). The game did not start. Instead I got an error message with the following content:

steam error

application load error 2:0000065558


I ended all steam tasks and services with the task manager, but the error persists.

Ideas?

[YellowFin]

Interesting, so the copied installation did not work out of the box out side the steam path. Out of curiosity I installed the LSH3 supermod (not WAC 5), and I got the game to run, but with the dark screen bug (game starts, music plays, but screen remains dark).

[propbeanie]

As far as I can tell with my installs, Steam's newer "license" scheme apparently does not allow you to copy the game to another folder any longer. You have to have another hard drive, and then use the Steam app on your computer to create a new Library folder and do another install of the game to that. If you've only got the one hard drive, it makes life a bit difficult... Hopefully, there's a work-around, but I haven't seen it yet. I'm fine on my desktop computer, with 4 hard drive partitions, but the laptop only has "C:\" drive... Hopefully someone knows what to do...

[YellowFin]

Thank you both for your replies. I'm trying to set up a proper multi installation tonight!

[Boche]

Did anyone manage to find a fix for this? im having this exact problem.

[Convoi_PQ17]

It's a STEAM-issue.

There's a lot more interesting talk on STEAM recently.
The link is: https://steamcommunity.com/app/15210/discussions

Hope this helps!

[Pisces]

Hmm, one could create a virtual harddisk file (.vhd or more modern .vhdx) on the C-drive with Disk Manangement. Attach/mount it as a different drive and install the new library on it. One can choose to make a dynamically expanding disksize or a fixed size. It would have a minimal bit of performance overhead accessing it. Also, it will not be mounted permanently. You would need to attach it every time you restarted the machine and want to play the game.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/manage-virtual-hard-disks