I bought this game expectign it to work and it worked perfectly the first time I ran it although after I restarted my pc It has no longer launched. I have installed the widescreen mod.
Things I've tried:
Hard install
Uninstalling all mods and reinstalling
reinstalling in an entirely new folder
running as administrator

Does anyone know a fix for this?

Error full message:
Microsoft visual C + + Runtime library
Programe:D:\GOG\Emperor-Rise o f the middle kingdom\Emperor.exe
Abnormal program termination.
I realised It's not under question, my apologies.

Hey,

A bit late you may have fixed it but still..
I encountered this bug too when i recently reinstalled the game. I can't remember how i fixed it though :/

Does your game work after a complete reinstall and without any mod?

When you install widescreen mod do you merge original data folder with mod's one?

- rename emperor.exe to emperor_orignal.exe
- copy DATA folder to DATA_original, so you have both DATA and DATA_original which are exactly the same files.
- copy-paste emperor.exe and DATA from mod, replace all.

Your error is triggered when you launch the game at loading screens before main menu right?

Please forgive my english.

did you try verifying / repairing the game? :D if my info doesnt work plz refer to wak's suggestions
plan b is try it on a different pc you own. copy the game's files over from the first pc to test it on the 2nd pc. delete after testing. installing it on a 2nd pc brand new and overriding the files on the first pc might work also. remember to delete files from 2nd pc. im not promoting pirating, this is strictly for debugging.

thing about old games is they tend to f up when anything happens. such as modding them, windows updates, simply existing. its kinda hard for the normal users to figure out what broke, we just kinda fumble our way through it and sometimes work it out :D

extreme fix: this is a complete purge of files.
you might have to go into C:\Users\ USER NAME \AppData\Local\GOG.com\Galaxy\Applications and delete the folders. i just got some weird issue with another one of their games bugging out on me and had to fix it like this. couldnt figure out which folder full of numbers was for that game so just uninstalled everything and deleted all of them. worked fine after reinstalling it again. cant promise it will work on all issues. but its worked when ever i had issues launching a game from this company.

it helps i dont keep many games installed at once and emperor + the other games are kinda tiny.

hopeful fix: sometimes it just works, i dont understand it.
alternatively, it could just randomly start working again if left alone for a while(months). that also happens sometimes to me when i cant be bothered to debug what broke.

Hi, I just solved the problem and I hope it'll be helpful to you.
Try download and install the game with the gog downloader instead of the gog galaxy and run the game. DO NOT run the game from gog galaxy. DO NOT synchronize your data through gog galaxy, that will crash the game again. If you have local data, just copy your local data in the 'SAVE' folder to the 'SAVE' directory of your new installation, but remember DO NOT copy the 'ImperialRecord.imr' to your new installation, I think that's the reason why the game crashes.

I worked for me. I did exactly what he said to do. But I found and realized it was a corrupted save data file (extension sav) that caused my trouble in the beginning. I went through the off line route to download the program files. Thanks you have saved 2 weeks of wait for their tech to get back to me.