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When I try to launch AE in Steam, the Launching... window finishes but the game doesn't appear. Exoddus.exe is running, but I can't end the process. I verified the game cache and disabled any background processes I thought might be intefering, but I can't be sure.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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Are you running Windows 7? If so, 7 has a nasty habit of running that rundll32.dll guy in the background.
7 launches rundll32 in the background whenever you try to run an old game to attempt to gather cover box information for the crappy games explorer. The problem is, it's badly programmed, and they still haven't fixed it (to my knowledge). Basically, if your internet is turned off, it will start the process when you start the game, the game won't start, you'll be forced to end the game's process and start the game again, and the rundll32 process will keep munching on cpu until it grabs 100% cpu usage.
The only current fix is to start the game, end the game's process, start it again, alt tab and then end the rundll32 process.
I hope it helped.