Launcher close after displaying "Unhandled Exception"

[Yololo69]

Hi all

EDIT : it seems forcing the Launcher to start as Administrator fix the first issue of the Unhandled Exception. I was able to launch it several times without this problem.

From my last reinstall of the game few months ago I have to run the Launcher several times, sometimes more than 10 time, before getting ride of an error message it display. Closing the message (OK button or cross) also close the launcher, and if I wait, it will display an additional similar error message, two in the example below.

Translated from french, it said : "Unhandled Exception : Object reference not set to an instance of an object.".

As you can see also, but that's a pretty old problem and I don't really care about it, the Launcher isn't displayed correctly (cut to the right), probably because I have a custom scaling in Windows. Changing the DPI settings in Launcher property don't fix this issue.

Any idea?

Thanks!

 

[Kingston@#]

looks familur, i would say gpu issue my friend

though after re-reading your post, i now think its possibly your display settings. not knowing any specs i cant point you further than this.

have you tried unistall and install?

 

[Yololo69]

Thanks for the answer. My GPU is OK so far as all other apps and games run fine.
In fact, it seems I have resolved this error message by setting the Launcher to be run with Administrator Rights (in its Compatibility tab). At least it work fine now from few days. Need more time to be sure!

 

[Terekhov]

The display issue is probably down to UI scaling that you have set in windows.

The .NET error is down to the wrong version of .NET being used to run the launcher. It requires editing a text file which will be in in the same folder as the launcher execuatble. The file is called "EDLaunch.exe.config". Make a copy of the file first, so if something goes wrong, you can put things back as they were.

In that file there are two lines similar to:
<supportedRuntime Version="v2.0.50727"/ >
<supportedRuntime Version="v4.0"/ >

simply swap the two lines around so that the higher version is first
<supportedRuntime Version="v4.0"/ >
<supportedRuntime Version="v2.0.50727"/ >

Running ED as Administrator is NOT required, and (IT security professional's hat on) is not recommended for any software that is not designed to be run that way (i.e. most ordinary programs and games).

 

[Yololo69]

Good! Thanks for the reply.

I did it like you described. Funny as it triggered some kind of protection (file modification I guess) when I ran the Launcher and it asked me my credentials with confirmation code etc.

So far it work, I obviously removed my Administrator rights change (I agree with you) and no error was displayed this time. I'm curious to understand why I had to change this to make it work... Bah, anyway, it work, so big thank!