Sep 19, 2018 - Close out of Steam completely and then launch Steam as admin. That worked for me. Stupid and not kosher to have to do that, though.

I'm on a Win 7 machine. Keep that in mind. So I tried running steam as administrator and that would get me past the 'steam api init failed' error message, but then the game would hang on the loading screen.

Analiz versha maksima bogdanovicha ramans. The fix required me to switch over to my admin account, and run steam from that, and then start the game there. No idea why that worked, I'm assuming that it's a user issue. It wants administrative access to certain processes, but under my normal user account, it wasn't working.::shrug:: Let me know if it worked for you.

Originally posted by Spacefentionz:I'm on a Win 7 machine. Keep that in mind. So I tried running steam as administrator and that would get me past the 'steam api init failed' error message, but then the game would hang on the loading screen. The fix required me to switch over to my admin account, and run steam from that, and then start the game there. No idea why that worked, I'm assuming that it's a user issue. It wants administrative access to certain processes, but under my normal user account, it wasn't working.::shrug:: Let me know if it worked for you.

I will try this and let you know. Originally posted by Spacefentionz:I'm on a Win 7 machine. Keep that in mind. So I tried running steam as administrator and that would get me past the 'steam api init failed' error message, but then the game would hang on the loading screen. The fix required me to switch over to my admin account, and run steam from that, and then start the game there. No idea why that worked, I'm assuming that it's a user issue. It wants administrative access to certain processes, but under my normal user account, it wasn't working.::shrug:: Let me know if it worked for you.

I will try this and let you know. Originally posted by:Already running in admin and now it doesnt work, I have had 2 anti virus pick this game up and constantly it has given me issues always pointing to spyware/trojans, The virus they use is a Gen2malware. Its a common virus and not very smart. I am not suprised more anti virus are not picking it up. That ain't part of this game, you got that else where. Tenprotect can sometimes trigger false positives in some antiVs.

Malware is not a virus More antiVs aren't picking up because; as I said at the start, this game didn't put that on your machine.