Is anyone running Resident Evil 5 on PC? (FIXED/Solution Found)

[EpicSurvivor]

I have not played RE5 in 3 years and I wanted to play it today on my PC (Windows 7, signature) I can't get the game to Run.

I own it through Steam. Any suggestions on what I can do?

There are is 2 different things that happen.
1) when I try to run the game it says "Program has stopped working"
2) After finding a supposed fix for GFWL I manage to get the game title to open and give me the choice of DirectX9-or10 however 10 just gives me full Black Screen and game crashes. 9 gives me half black window and crash again.

Would like to know how to get this game running through Steam on my Windows 7 PC.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

 

[zinfamous]

The few common problems that I am aware of for terrible ports (Assuming this is one of them) for PC games, is to try playing in Windowed mode--seems to fix a lot of cutscene-related issues, and to disable cloud saving. You would probably need to create a new save file folder in the game's install folder, however (the non-steam pathway; generally in the /Users pathway)

 

[EpicSurvivor]

The few common problems that I am aware of for terrible ports (Assuming this is one of them) for PC games, is to try playing in Windowed mode--seems to fix a lot of cutscene-related issues, and to disable cloud saving. You would probably need to create a new save file folder in the game's install folder, however (the non-steam pathway; generally in the /Users pathway)

I actually got it to work! I had to download 2 different things and its running now. Game is Decent nothing great but man what a mess just to make it work. It happens to be it uses GFWL and that's what was causing the Problems.

Ha!

 

[Stg-Flame]

Care to describe what you had to do? I'm sure you're not the only one who has the game on PC.

 

[EpicSurvivor]

Care to describe what you had to do? I'm sure you're not the only one who has the game on PC.

Copy and Pasted but its my answer. Hope it helps.
SOLUTION/FIX: This worked for me.

First you need to get these files here
https://www.dll-files.com/xlive.dll.html

Copy and Paste them inside the Game Folder for Resident Evil 5 (within the Steam game folder) If it ask you to replace the files say Yes. After you done that you would want to download these files. https://www11.zippyshare.com/v/xzCBJFW3/file.html Found them on a Youtube video and they fixed my problem.

The first set of files Fixed the problem but made the problem something different, so it was a step forward, then after searching the step forward from the first files, I found the files on the second link on a Youtube video. After doing these 2 easy quick steps I was able to get Resident Evil 5 up and running. Confirmed Windows 7 (Steam).

So glad it worked.

Thanks for the help.
See you around.

EpicSurvivor

EDIT: This fix is for Games for Windows Live, for some reason it has a conflict with Steam being older and dated software. This solution fixed the issue for me and got the game running.