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Tried it yesterday an all went well after I found the fitting registry keys. Had to look through all my Bundle and Update orders, but found a key for everything I wanted to register with Slitherine to get the Steam keys. Thanks Battlefront for not only great games, but that they cooperate with Slitherine/Matrix and making things easier for theyr players/customers Kudos !

I've bought some years ago the CMBN - Commonwealth Forces BUNDLE (CMBN plus Commonwealth Forces), but with the serial key I can only register the Commonwealth Forces DLC at Slitherine. How can I register the main CMBN game at Slitherine ? EDIT: Ok - just noticed, that I could register CMBN with the key from the Upgrade 4 Big Bundle.

Schrullenhaft, you are my new god for 2011 !!! Let me praise and worship you !!! Threatfire was the problem and without it, the games run fine again. But it would be nice to get eLicense AND ThreatFire both running without interference. But now I know what to do and now nothing stands in the way of getting me the NATO module and CM Normandy. THANKS and a Happy New Year to all of you, Martin

Hi there ! I own a bunch of Battlefront games (Combat Mission Shock Force, the Marines module, the British Forces Module, Combat Mission Afghanistan, Theatre of War, Strategic Command Blitzkrieg) and they all ran fine on my old Windows XP computer. But now on my new Windows 7 PC none of these games will start. I installed them (using admin rights), eLicensed them (without any error), but as soon as I try to launch the games, nothing happens. Deactivated my ThreatFire and AVG 2011 while installing and while I tried to start the games, but to no avail. Uninstalled, unlicensed and even tried to uninstall the eLicense system with the tool from the Battlefront website, but with no success. I'm really looking forward to CM Normandy, but if I can't play the old games on my computer ... BTW, bought ToW2 and ToW3 from Steam (without the eLicensing) and both run fine !!! Is there a way to get rid of the eLicense and start from scratch with the installation of my games ? I really appreciate every hint and tipp to get my games running again ! Regards, Martin

AVG is the free version and ThreatFire is a mixture between SpyWare and AntiVirus (and meant to be running alongside a fully featured AntiVirus program. Will try to uninstall ThreatFire next week (because here in Germany its about 11:30 pm and I'll be away for the whole weekend. But Strategic Command 2 and CMSF used to run with ThreatFire installed and running. My Steam client was updated this week and I installed the usual Windows updates. Also bought and installed same games the last few days. It would be nice, if you could check this thread once in a while next week; maybe I'll find out something new ? Thanks and good night, Martin

I give up now ! Rebooted several times already, but still no success. Could unlicense all the games and installed ToW again. Killed all processes which looked unnecessary and the ThreatFire and AVG processes, too. NOTHING !!! Seems that I have to write of my $35 and won't buy the NATO module for CMSF, which I really was looking for. BTW, I also have another version of ToW (Steam) installed on my computer, which runs fine. Looks like it is really that #*!"§$%& eLicense application which causes all the trouble. Martin Will creating and installing an offline license do any good ? Maybe then the game executables won't need the eLicense system for starting ? Just a wild, weird and desperate guess.

Ok, I forgot to include Runservice.exe to the DEP exceptions,but now unlicensing and licensing works, but still the games won't launch. Strangely there is an error message for the games even when they are on the DEP exception list ?!? ThreatFire and AVG had only their normal signature updates. Shall I try to unlicense and uninstall all my battlefront games ? One thing I did the last few days was to simply delete "Theatre of War (instead of uninstalling it). Maybe this caused the problem. Will try to reinstall ToW and hope for the best. If you have other tipps/clues for me and my problem, that would be great. Martin PS: Thanks for your fast responses and your help !

Hi again ! Looks like DEP is not the problem. Put both games on the white list for DEP and now there are no more error messages, but the games won't start at all. Tried to uninstall and reinstall CM Afghanistan, but with no better result (ThreatFire wasn't running). Then I tried to unlicense the game, but because this is done via the CM Afghanistan.exe and the unlicense parameter, it too doesn't work. How to unlicense and uninstall the games and start from scratch (without formating my harddrive and system) ??? Is there a separate installation for the eLicensing and maybe a patch or a newer version ? Just checked another Battlefront game I installed recently (last week): Strategic Command 2 Blitzkrieg (and the Weapons and Warfare addon). Both started without any problems after the installation, but now they are playing dead, too. And both worked with ThreatFire running and scanning without problems. Something is going seriously wrong her, but I can't figure out, what the heck it is. Maybe you are right and it has something to do with the eLicensing system. Martin New findings about eLicense: looked for the eLicense Control Panel and noticed that I have the 32 bit version installed (while using Win 7 64 bit). When I double click it, it says that no application is linked with it ??? How can I reinstall eLicense and all of its components ?

Thanks for your reply. There are no major hardware changes, because it is a new computer (just three months old and with all the original hardware still onboard). My security programs are AVG Antivir and ThreatFire. SpyBot Search&Destroy is also installed, but not active (just on demand). Paused ThreatFire and AVG and tried again to run the game(s), but with no new results. I'm sure that my older CMSF game worked fine after I installed it on my new computer, but now I get no response from this game, too. Will try to uninstall (without unlicensing) CMSF Afghanistan and reinstall it to the default installation paths. I installed both games at drive D:/ (maybe this will cause some confusion). I will disable my security programs during installation, too. BTW, my computer has an i7 cpu, 6GB RAM and an ATI 5850. Are there any config files where I can change some settings (resolution, etc.) ? Martin

Hi ! Bought CM Afghanistan today, installed and licensed it, but could not run it. Even when I run the program with administrator rights or with the compatibility mode, I only get a message, that the CM Afghanistan.exe won't work anymore. Then I tried my (once working) CM Shock Force and get the same error now. I'm running Windows 7 64bit. Would be nice if you could help me to get the games going. BTW, do I have to uninstall the elicense before I uninstall the game or will this be done with the uninstall routine ? Martin