

Once you have them all selected, either right click on a selected value or go to "File" and then click "Delete Selected Keys/Values", ( not all files will delete, that is okay. Once it is done scanning, look through all values that the program found, and select all of them that have any relevance to Empire at War (sometimes you might find things that are not relevant, or have little relevance, don't worry about any of them that are not clearly associated with Empire at War) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER selected in blue already, select the rest as well, then click Ok at the bottom and let is scan. type in "Star Wars Empire at War" or "Empire at War" then towards the bottom you will see Once you are running it, you will see your cursor already at "Find String". Uninstall Empire at War from steam, then make sure the folder is gone from steamapps\commonĭownload a registry scanner program, here is one that I know is not malicious:Īfter downloading it, unpack it and run it.



If it is not, refer to Option 2 (I know Option 2 works because I just had someone else do it, that said Verification did not work) Run it and when it finishes, run FoC and it should be fixed. Right click the game in Steam, go to "Local Files" and then click "Verify Integrity of Game Cache" it is the last option. Go to Steam.exe, right click and run as administrator. Option 1 deals with simply trying to "fix" the registry values, Option 2 deals with deleting every possible registry value, so that you can get the proper ones after another reinstall. There are two known ways now to fix the invalid CD key problem, and the reason why just merely uninstalling the game does not fix it is that it will still leave behind traces of the game in your Registry, and those few traces that it does leave behind are the ones that are corrupted and need fixing.
