Question 2K - Xcom Enemy Unknown - What actually went wrong?

[Blunderfluff]

A few months ago there was some update that broke the game. Most reported the game wouldn't run anymore. My install of Long war 1.0 appeared to be working fine, but now, 2 months later, I can't load into missions without a crash.

I'm confused how this happened as I have steam in perma-offline state and haven't updated anything. My game launches and things work in Geoscape, but crash when trying to enter battlescape.

Other users mentioning a patched executable from 2K. But I'm not sure if that's of any use for me given that I'm running LW, which has to patch the exe to work.

Do us LW users need to reinstall the game with 2K's exe and then reinstall LW?

 

[rgd1101]

what the crash error? gpu driver?

 

[punkncat]

Is this patch to the exe file official, or is it a crack? In the latter case, we cannot assist you with this issue.

 

[Blunderfluff]

what the crash error? gpu driver?

For most people the game simply wouldn't launch anymore due to either a windows update or something issued by 2K.

For me, running LW mod and steam in perma-offline state, the game still ran, but only limited function. Can't actually load into the battlescape without it crashing. Geoscape works fine.

I just can't make sense of what actually caused the problem. None of my files have been updated in years.

Is this patch to the exe file official, or is it a crack? In the latter case, we cannot assist you with this issue.

The exe revision was officially rolled out by 2K games. It was either something on their end or a windows update that borked the game. Haven't got a definitive answer on what the actual cause was.