Sniper Elite 4 Not Launching Windows 10

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Christain Cobb

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Aug 3, 2024, 11:23:20 AM8/3/24

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I've been playing this game for 2 years now and I took a brake over the past 2 months from playing it and now I came back to find it won't launch. I think this is the issue. My xsession - errors has this in it.

Manfred Hampl
I've never had to try and patch a bug before on my own and have no clue how to do this. I have ahd issues before but, someone would come along and give me a line or two to put into the terminal and it was done. This is all new to me. Sorry.

Ok I tried the download link, cd Download and then sudo patch /usr/share/caja-python/extensions/dejadup.py < dejadup.patch that didn't work. However after trying it that way the other sniper elite 3 wouldn't work either. They both had a steam warning about the game file not in sync with the cloud. After that I figured I would shut down steam and see what would happen. It didn't want to let me sign in to staem. it kicked me off twice. After that I restarted my computer twice because it did the same thing again on the fist try. Now I have everything working but for Sniper elite 4.

Manfred Hampl
Let me try to explain this better. I did the whole right click on the link and downloaded the patch. Opened up the terminal and did the cd download then sudo patch.. After I did that I went to steam to see if that fixed it. I tried to open the game SE 4 and it started to launch then I got this "steam warning" about the cloud syncing being off and it would shut down the game. Then I tried SE 3 ( that worked right before I started this) also had the same message and did the same shut down. Then I shut down steam hoping that might fix it and then it wouldn't let me sign in. So then I shut the computer down and tried again and it still wouldn't let me sign in but, after my 2nd try all was back to normal. I could get back on staem and play the games that worked before. So I would say it didn't work to fix the game I wanted to get running.

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