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Dark Souls GFWL Petition

[Apr 11, 2012, 7:27 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Following today's announcement of the Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition for Windows, which was supported by a petition, a new petition is now online to protest the plan to use Games for Windows LIVE (thanks Reddit). Here's word:

GFWL is unpopular, difficult to use, inconvenient, has terrible online support (a key feature in Dark Souls), and is downright unpleasant. After anxiously awaiting a PC release for this fantastic game it feels like a real slap in the face hearing Dark Souls will use Games for Windows Live. We recommend Valve's Steamworks in place, as this DRM is much easier to use, less intrusive, more reliable, and more accepted among PC gamers. Please reconsider the use of GFWL, or offer the game on both services. Thank you for taking the effort to port this game, but for a lot of customers it's Steam or no sale.

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Here's an explanation and fix for your GFWL problem.

Apr 11, 2012, 22:54

hb3d

eRe4s3r wrote on Apr 11, 2012, 20:13: Even now I can't even start the game without MANUALLY starting GFW, yes, the marketplace app which has absolutely no relation to GFWL, but is required for it to not instantly crash on startup (of the game) This is a common misunderstanding about GFWL. GFWL games require that a Windows service named "Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant" be running when they are launched. By default the GFWL client installer sets this service to run automatically at startup. If you change this setting to manual or to disable, the service will not start when you run your game, and the game will either exit or crash depending upon how the game is programmed. If you have the Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant service set to manual, running the GFWL Marketplace application will start the service. That is why you can then successfully launch your game and the GFWL functionality in it works. You don't really need the Marketplace app. You just need the sign-in service to be running when you launch the game. So either leave the service on automatic and always running or set it to manual but remember to manually start it before launching your GFWL games. By the way the GFWL Marketplace client is also useful for displaying what DLC you have downloaded for a particular GFWL account. This comment was edited on Apr 11, 2012, 23:15.

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Comment [quote="hb3d"Apr 11, 2012, 22:54][quote="eRe4s3r"Apr 11, 2012, 20:13]Even now I can't even *start* the game without MANUALLY starting GFW, yes, the marketplace app which has absolutely no relation to GFWL, but is required for it to not instantly crash on startup (of the game) [/quote] This is a common misunderstanding about GFWL. GFWL games require that a Windows service named "Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant" be running when they are launched. By default the GFWL client installer sets this service to run automatically at startup. If you change this setting to manual or to disable, the service will not start when you run your game, and the game will either exit or crash depending upon how the game is programmed. If you have the Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant service set to manual, running the GFWL Marketplace application will start the service. That is why you can then successfully launch your game and the GFWL functionality in it works. You don't really need the Marketplace app. You just need the sign-in service to be running when you launch the game. So either leave the service on automatic and always running or set it to manual but remember to manually start it before launching your GFWL games. By the way the GFWL Marketplace client is also useful for displaying what DLC you have downloaded for a particular GFWL account. [/quote]

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