Launcher stops working?

[Jäger]

Everytime I try to start the EF launcher, I get an error message saying it stopped working, I've run as admin, I've uninstalled/reinstalled 9 times, I've uninstalled CoH multiple times and it's still not working. Is there anyway to fix this?

[Max 'DonXavi' von B.]

This is caused by the server suffering from heavy traffic due to thousands of people sending requests simultaneously. Turn off auto-update, editing the "EF_Launcher_Config.ini" file in the launcher directory, changing the line

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Auto_Update=True to

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Auto_Update=False
Then it should work again, just download the patch from another mirror:
ModDB
Speedyshare

[Jäger]

Which folder is it in? I searched the EF folder and nothing came up.

[Dann88]

"EF_Launcher_Config.ini" file is in your Company of Heroes folder.

[Jäger]

It's not there

[Blackbishop]

Then you installed EF in a wrong place? IIRC this error was already fixed and the launcher restarts by itself and turns it off by default.

[Max 'DonXavi' von B.]

He is a steam user.

[Jäger]

I installed it in the CoH steam folder, the launcher file is not there, is there anyway I can download it? since I JUST reinstalled for the 11th time in the past month and it's not working properly.

*EDIT*
It worked for the first 3 weeks that I played it back in May, then stopped in the middle of June, I gave up and now I'm retrying.

[Blackbishop]

Have you installed or uninstalled anything in that period of time?

Have you double checked your EF files were not installed in the Program files\THQ folder?

[Jäger]

I have, there IS a EF Launcher in THQ folder, but its stuck on updating, should I change it there?


*EDIT*
IT WORKS! Thank you all for your help, I'll see you on the battlefield.

[Komrad]

Hello,

My friend is suffering the same launcher crash, but problem is more severe because we want to update game, and get hotfix #1 !!

Would it be possible to get direct link to patch 1.70.1

[MonolithicBacon]

http://www.moddb.com/mods/coheastern-front/downloads/eastern-front-170-full-with-hotfix-1

Bam!

[Campus]

Kinda having the same problem like above. Downloaded the Mod several times over and over again but it always crashes when starting up.



Things I've done:
- Making sure my COH was up to date
- Downloaded the correct patch of EF (7.1.0.1)

When I've noticed that the launcher crashed
- Went to the confiq file and tried to change the code (False instead of True) but I won't let me save the change (I'm a administrator on my pc so i find that quite odd)
- Put relicdownloader off (even deleted it)

So at this moment I'm not quite sure what to do next.

[Blackbishop]

Try to change the config file after you have closed the launcher.